Aug 03 In Honduras, Whispers of Political Unrest Remain Amid Mayan Beauty SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras | Within an hour after landing here in Honduras's second largest city, I had my picture snapped three times -- at immigration, a record of my arrival, then before boarding the airport bus to the downtown… Continue reading
Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: Housing Concerns and ‘Toxic Trailers’ By News Desk A resident of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward mows his lawn in front of a FEMA trailer in 2006. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're looking back at some of our NewsHour coverage… Continue reading
Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: Healing and Rebuilding Through Art By News Desk As part of our look back at Hurricane Katrina five years after the disaster, we examine how art has played a role in the city's ongoing healing and rebuilding process. Here are some highlights of our coverage: Aug. 28, 2009:… Continue reading
Aug 03 Tuesday: BP to Attempt ‘Static Kill’; Floods Spreading in Pakistan Crews hoped to begin pumping mud and cement into the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday in what BP officials said could be the permanent fix to the spill. Engineers planned to… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Humanitarian Crisis Mounts in Pakistan After ‘Monsoon of Generation’ Tens of thousands of Pakistanis are in need of food and shelter after flooding that has killed some 1,500 people so far. Kylie Morris of Independent Television News reports. Continue watching
Aug 02 Thousands Dead or Homeless From Floods in Pakistan By Larisa Epatko Unusually severe monsoon rains and flash flooding over the weekend left hundreds of Pakistanis dead and even more homeless in the northwest Monday when dams burst and rivers broke their banks, submerging homes and wiping out roads. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch Pakistan’s Floods Leave Millions Displaced Widespread floods have driven more than 2 million Pakistanis from their homes while more than 1,000 have been killed. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News has the latest on the continued devastation. Continue watching
Jul 30 Poynter Editor on WikiLeaks’ Global Leverage, Playing by Its Own Rules By Hari Sreenivasan On this edition of NewsHour Plus, we check in with Steve Myers, managing editor of Poynter Online, a training facility for journalists, who wrote this week about how WikiLeaks is changing the power structure in the news… Continue reading
Jul 30 ‘Historic’ Meeting of Mideast Adversaries Takes Place in Lebanon Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks (right) with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz at al-Shaab palace in Damascus on Thursday, on the eve of a joint mission to Lebanon aimed at containing political tensions there. Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP The… Continue reading