Jul 22 Global Health Twitter Roundup Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Be sure to send us your suggestions, and you can nominate organizations for our weekly "one way to help" feature!… Continue reading
Jul 22 Pentagon Set to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ Eastern U.S. Faces Excessive Heat Pentagon leaders on Friday are set to formally end the 18-year-long ban that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. They are expected to notify President Obama, who will then send a letter to Congress. The… Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch In ‘Mugabe and the White African,’ Farmers Struggle Against Brutal Land Reforms The documentary "Mugabe and the White African" follows a white Zimbabwean farmer who files an international lawsuit against Robert Mugabe's violent land-reform program. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films aired in partnership… Continue watching
Jul 21 ‘Mugabe and the White African’ Looks at Zimbabwe’s Land Battles On Thursday's NewsHour, we're aired part of the film 'Mugabe and the White African', a documentary that follows a Zimbabwean white farmer who files an international lawsuit against Robert Mugabe's violent land reform program. It's part of our partnership… Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch In Zimbabwe, A White African struggles against Mugabe’s Policies For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Jul 21 Life in the Post Food-Surplus World By Ray Suarez Women shelling mussels in Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. Hunger activists used to argue that the world produces more than enough food for all of its people -- it's the transportation, storage, and waste that cause the problem. Now, that… Continue reading
Jul 21 Dangerous Heat Wave Envelops Much of U.S., Somalia Facing Famine Crisis A dangerous "heat dome" blanketing the Midwest to the East Coast is being blamed for as many as 22 deaths Thursday, as 141 million people remained under a heat advisory with relief several days away in many places. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Much of U.S. Broils Under Extraordinarily Massive ‘Heat Dome’ Nearly 200 million Americans spent Wednesday under some form of warning about the relentless, stifling combination of extreme heat and humidity, which formed a so-called "heat dome" over a vast region. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Jul 20 FRONTLINE Investigation Shows Inconsistencies in Anthrax Case By Lauren Knapp An ongoing investigation by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers has brought to light inconsistencies in the government's position on the 2001 case of anthrax-filled letters that killed five people. // This interview was conducted on July 19. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Frontline: Evidence Questioned in 2001 Anthrax Case Hari Sreenivasan talks to Frontline's Michael Kirk about new evidence in the anthrax case. Continue watching