January 4, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode

Maurice Hines, a legend of tap dance for seven decades, has died. He gained fame with his brother Gregory as the Hines Brothers, delighting audiences on stage, television and film. Jeffrey Brown has this remembrance for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

The resignation of former Harvard president Claudine Gay has hardly settled any of the debate surrounding her tenure. While Gay did admit to several mistakes, she argues she's been unfairly targeted because of her race, ideology and push for diversity. William Brangham has two perspectives from Khalil Gibran Muhammad of Harvard’s Kennedy School, and Tom Nichols of The Atlantic.

House Democrats released a new report showing foreign countries spent millions at former President Trump’s businesses while he held office. The release appears to be a political counter-punch to Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden and his family’s foreign business dealings. Lisa Desjardins reports.

The frontlines of the war in Ukraine have hardly moved in the last few months, but could the course of the war change in 2024? Geoff Bennett discussed two perspectives with Charles Kupchan, who served on the National Security Council staff during the Obama and Clinton administrations, and Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former senior intelligence official who focused on Russia and Eurasia.

A White House spokesperson said U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Moscow has acquired ballistic missiles from North Korea and fired at least one of them into Ukraine on December 30. The U.S. is now concerned Iran will soon agree to sell Russia missiles. Geoff Bennett reports.

The U.S. government is set to partially shut down in 15 days unless a funding agreement is reached. But immigration is a key sticking point in those talks, and it’s an issue that has plagued Congress and the White House for years. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is the Biden administration’s point man on those negotiations and joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest.