Jun 26 'It's hard to hate someone you know': Teen's website battles bias By Larisa Epatko As people all over the nation grapple with issues of racism and discrimination following the most recent mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, one teenager is making room for the voices of young people. Continue reading
Jun 26 Your holiday cheat sheet to Ramadan By Wendy Thomas Russell Ramadan is considered the holiest month, because it was during Ramadan that Allah was said to have first contacted Muhammad. Every year, from the first sight of the waxing crescent moon until the last sight of the waning crescent, Muslims… Continue reading
Jun 26 Small expectations between two big countries during Brazil's official trip By Michael D. Mosettig As official visits go, it has been an inauspicious scene-setting for next week's trip of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to the United States and a Tuesday meeting with President Barack Obama. Continue reading
Jun 25 Pope Francis addresses marriage, says separation is sometimes 'morally necessary' By Eric Osman Speaking to the masses in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis articulated a more accepting tone toward marital separation. Continue reading
Jun 25 Are we closer to a rapid test for Ebola? By Caleb Hellerman, Global Health Reporting Center In the early stages of infection it’s easy to mistake Ebola for other diseases, and sorting out which patients carry the virus is a delicate and dangerous task. Now, there’s new evidence that a simple test could make that job… Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 4:36 China, U.S. wrap up talks amid growing distrust By PBS News Hour This week, high-level delegations from China and the U.S. met in Washington for their annual talks. Evan Osnos of The New Yorker joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the meeting and the tension between the two nations on issues like cyber… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 6:49 Refusing to pay ransom won't stop kidnapping, says former hostage By PBS News Hour The White House cleared the path for the families of hostages to be able to pay ransom, and offered other changes for how the government handles hostage cases. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner gets reaction from Michael Scott Moore,… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 3:01 Shifting policy, Obama pledges U.S. will 'stand by' families of hostages By PBS News Hour As the number of American hostage deaths have surged in the past year, some families have spoken out about being threatened with prosecution for considering paying ransom and feeling stonewalled by the government. Judy Woodruff reports on the White House’s… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 5:08 Shirin Neshat translates Iranian political unrest through an artistic lens By PBS News Hour For Shirin Neshat, "art became a kind of an excuse to build a relationship, even from a distance," to her homeland and history. Neshat grew up in pre-revolutionary Iran, then came to the U.S. as a student in the 1970s… Continue watching
Jun 24 With policy shift, hostage family hopes to be last 'that fails to receive' government support By Larisa Epatko President Barack Obama announced a retooled hostage policy aimed at correcting the sense many families have that the government has let them down, he said Wednesday. One hostage family responds. Continue reading