Feb 10 Watch 6:51 Meet an advocate for the needs and dignity of the millions who live in India's slums By PBS News Hour Slum Dwellers International, an advocacy organization started in India, has had success rallying large numbers of marginalized people to push for their rights and get basic amenities like toilets, electricity and permanent shelter. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro talks… Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch 6:32 Why Obama is seeking congressional OK for the fight against Islamic State, and what it will take to win it By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch 3:14 Jordan, U.S. dispute Islamic State claim of how Kayla Mueller died By PBS News Hour The family of Kayla Jean Mueller confirmed that the 26-year-old aid worker has been killed. Over the weekend, Islamic State militants sent them unspecified evidence of their daughter's death. The Arizona native was working with refugees on the Turkey-Syria border… Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch 3:20 News Wrap: Assad says he gets indirect info on U.S. airstrikes By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claimed on the BBC that he is getting information on the U.S. air campaign against the Islamic State indirectly through third parties. Also, there were reports that the U.S. embassy in… Continue watching
Feb 10 United States closes embassy in Yemen By Tik Root Remaining Yemen embassy staff are evacuating and the U.S. ambassador to Yemen will leave by Wednesday. Continue reading
Feb 10 Ancient ceramics show skill sharing, social networking in pre-Columbian era By Shehryar Nabi Studying ancient ceramics shows that social networking and skill-sharing helped pre-Columbian civilizations survive longer. Continue reading
Feb 10 Malaysia jails opposition leader for sodomy; U.S. 'deeply disappointed' By Marina Lopes Malaysia’s opposition leader on Tuesday began a five-year prison sentence after the country’s top court unanimously upheld a conviction that he sodomized a political aide, a ruling that effectively wiped out the gravest threat to the ruling party and drew… Continue reading
Feb 10 Past and present collide in Cambodia By Michael D. Mosettig PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- In recent weeks, from Israel to Europe to the United States, civic and religious leaders and a cluster of survivors, have commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day and this year the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the… Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 50:39 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 9, 2015 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, the U.S. and Europe debate strategies to stop the conflict in Ukraine. Also: A legal showdown over same-sex marriage in Alabama, the week ahead in politics with Amy Walter and Nia Malika-Henderson, holding police accountable for… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 7:40 New series explores how to fight gender oppression at home and abroad By PBS News Hour Journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have exposed widespread problems of abuse, sex trafficking and violence against women in Africa and Asia. Now they also bring their focus home, shining a light on the ways American women are commonly hurt,… Continue watching