May 18, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode
Saturday on PBS News Weekend, with nearly 115,000 people waiting for a new organ in the U.S., we look at what can be done to improve the transplant system. Then, why students and teachers are pushing for climate change to be taught in schools. Plus, we examine what’s behind the recent popularity of Japanese comics and animations in America.
Episodes
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April 24, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
S2024 E116 - 57m 46s
Wednesday on the NewsHour, the Supreme Court weighs whether federal protections for emergency abortions override a near-total ban at the state level. After months of wrangling in the House, President Biden signs a major foreign aid package that includes tens of billions of dollars for Ukraine. Plus, we meet evangelical Christians in Ukraine caught in the crosshairs of Russia's invasion.
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April 23, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
S2024 E115 - 57m 46s
April 23, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
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April 22, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
S2024 E114 - 57m 46s
April 22, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
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April 21, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode
S2024 E113 - 26m 44s
Sunday on PBS News Weekend, we ask NATO’s Secretary General if the delayed U.S. aid to Ukraine is too late to make a difference. Then, how a Supreme Court case on laws limiting homeless encampments could reshape policy across the country. Plus, a look at the tensions in one Montana city over people experiencing homelessness camping in vehicles.
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April 20, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode
S2024 E112 - 26m 44s
Saturday on PBS News Weekend, Volkswagen workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize in a big win for the labor movement. Then, as polls open in the world’s largest election, we look at what’s at stake for India and its allies. Plus, what can be done to protect the lives of journalists reporting from the front lines of the Israel-Hamas war.
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President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address
2h 14m
Seeking reelection, President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union address to tout his first three years in office. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett host PBS NewsHour's special coverage of the speech with our panel of experts, including Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart.
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Super Tuesday 2024 - PBS NewsHour special coverage
26m 45s
Super Tuesday, the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle, has arrived and voters in 16 states and one U.S. territory are casting their ballots. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennet host PBS NewsHour's special coverage with our panel of analysts.
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Congress grills school leaders over antisemitic incidents
S2024 E130 - 5m 10s
While most of the national attention around protests lately has been focused on much larger college campuses, there have been some problems in some high schools as well. It was the focus of another charged hearing on Capitol Hill as leaders of some of the nation's largest districts were grilled about the rise in antisemitism in their schools. Lisa Desjardins reports.
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News Wrap: MTG's attempt to oust House Speaker Johnson fails
S2024 E130 - 5m 12s
In our news wrap Wednesday, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene failed in her attempt to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, parts of the Midwest surveyed damage after a night of extreme weather that spawned tornadoes, Russia unleashed a barrage of more than 50 missiles and drones on Ukraine and Live Nation settled nearly all of the wrongful death lawsuits involving the Astroworld festival in Houston.
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Anita Hill discusses overturn of Weinstein's rape conviction
S2024 E129 - 7m 56s
The recent ruling by New York’s highest court to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction has sent a wave of shock and disappointment through advocates of the #MeToo movement. Weinstein remains jailed for a rape conviction in Los Angeles, but the New York ruling still raises questions about justice for sexual assault survivors. Amna Nawaz discussed those concerns with Anita Hill.
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News Wrap: TikTok sues to overturn law that could ban app
S2024 E129 - 5m 44s
In our news wrap Tuesday, TikTok sued to overturn a law that could ban the platform inside the U.S., Ukraine's state security service says it foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy, Russian President Putin was sworn in for his fifth term after almost 25 years in power and a federal judge in Florida indefinitely delayed Donald Trump's classified documents trial.
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Biden condemns antisemitism in Holocaust remembrance speech
S2024 E129 - 7m 32s
President Biden marked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance, remembering the six million Jewish people who were killed. In his speech Tuesday, Biden affirmed America’s support for Jewish people, Israel and condemned antisemitism. Laura Barrón-López reports.
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Brittney Griner discusses day she was released from Russia
S2024 E129 - 6m 47s
Monday, we spoke with basketball star Brittney Griner about what it was like being detained by Russian authorities for ten months. In the second part of our interview, Amna Nawaz talks with Griner about her release from Russian custody, readjusting to life back in the U.S. and her new book “Coming Home.”
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What Stormy Daniels revealed on the stand in Trump's trial
S2024 E129 - 6m 10s
Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress at the center of the criminal hush money trial against Donald Trump, took the stand Tuesday in New York. In sometimes graphic detail, she described the sexual encounter she alleges she had with Trump and the payment she received from his lawyer to buy her silence. William Brangham discussed the volatile day in court with Andrea Bernstein of NPR.
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Protests violate rights of other students, commentator says
S2024 E129 - 7m 43s
Protests against the war in Gaza continue on college campuses across the country. Monday, we looked at the idea that colleges themselves fomented these demonstrations. Now, Lisa Desjardins speaks with New York Times opinion columnist David French who says colleges are not doing enough to crack down on protests.
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Israel seizes Gaza crossing as cease-fire hangs in balance
S2024 E129 - 4m 25s
Delegations from Israel and Hamas returned to Cairo to resume fraught negotiations over a potential cease-fire and hostage deal. Meantime, Israeli tanks and troops seized the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, delaying aid shipments as 1.2 million Palestinians shelter in the city. Nick Schifrin reports.
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How Israel's operation in Rafah affects aid for Palestinians
S2024 E129 - 5m 40s
An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo for crucial cease-fire talks a day after Hamas said it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal. To explore what could happen next, Amna Nawaz spoke with Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Biden's jaded electorate
S2024 E128 - 8m 46s
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join William Brangham to discuss the latest political news, including Republicans navigate the fallout from controversial remarks made by Donald Trump at a fundraising dinner over the weekend and President Biden continues to deal with a jaded electorate as he wrestles with the political ramifications of the war in Gaza.
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News Wrap: Russia announces nuclear weapons drills
S2024 E128 - 4m 13s
In our news wrap Monday, Russia publicly announced drills to simulate the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in its war with Ukraine, authorities in southern Brazil say at least 83 people have died in days of heavy rains and flooding with more than a hundred still missing and heavy rain across southeastern Texas began tapering off, but catastrophic flooding left widespread disruption.
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