Apr 30 Teenager pulled from rubble in Nepal By News Desk Rescue workers pulled Pema Lama, 15, from the rubble of the Hilton Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday to cheers from onlookers and other searchers. Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch 54:03 PBS NewsHour full episode April 29, 2015 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, devastation from the massive earthquake continues to cripple Nepal. Also: Violence subsides in Baltimore but unresolved problems remain, breaking the gender barrier in professional basketball, what a new trade agreement with Asia would mean for the… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch 7:23 What's in the Trans-Pacific Partnership for U.S. and Japan? By PBS News Hour Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s U.S. visit came at a critical moment in the fight to establish a sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership. An agreement could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in business, exports and profits, but opponents warn it would… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch 7:18 'World's best teacher' does not believe in tests and quizzes By PBS News Hour For 25 years, Nancie Atwell has run a small, independent K-8 school in Maine, where the goal is not just teaching young students, but also teachers. At the Center for Teaching and Learning, the school day is driven by a… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch 5:10 Why didn't Nepal prepare for an inevitable earthquake? By PBS News Hour Why wasn’t Nepal better prepared for an earthquake that everyone expected? Judy Woodruff talks to Jonah Blank of RAND Corporation about the political and economic challenges in Nepal. Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch 2:51 Nepal desperation grows in areas still waiting for aid By PBS News Hour The magnitude of devastation in Nepal following the massive earthquake is still largely unknown in some of the country’s more remote areas. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News meets survivors in the town of Bahrabise who are desperate for aid. Continue watching
Apr 29 Why the Nepal earthquake may have been inevitable By Nsikan Akpan On Saturday, a portion of the thrust fault underneath central Nepal ruptured, causing an earthquake that killed at least 5,200 people, injured more than 10,000 and destroyed centuries-old temples, towers and buildings. Continue reading
Apr 29 Nepal not prepared for intensity of earthquake, geologist says By Larisa Epatko It’s no mystery that Nepal -- precariously perched atop two shifting geologic plates -- is vulnerable to earthquakes. For the past decade, Nepal was working on preparing for the next big one. But it couldn't get all of its systems… Continue reading
Apr 29 The last men who fought in the Vietnam War remember the fall of Saigon By Mike Fritz, Pat Clark By April 29, 1975, the fall of Saigon was imminent and only a few dozen U.S. troops remained – down from more than half a million in 1969. Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch 8:36 Chaos and the human costs of the Vietnam War's final days By PBS News Hour The fall of Saigon is a story we think we know, says filmmaker Rory Kennedy. But in "Last Days in Vietnam," a new documentary airing on PBS' American Experience, the people who were there tell the almost unbelievable stories of… Continue watching