July 2, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

In our news wrap Tuesday, Hurricane Beryl is taking aim at Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Haiti after leaving a trail of destruction in the southeast Caribbean, the Biden administration proposed a rule to protect workers from excessive heat exposure, the judge in Donald Trump's hush money case pushed sentencing until September and a stampede at a religious event in India killed more than 100.

Israel launched air strikes into Khan Younis overnight, a part of Gaza it had already assaulted and left a few weeks ago. A ground operation now seems likely. It's not the first time Israeli forces claimed to clear Hamas from an area, only to return weeks or months later. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Daniel Byman, author of "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism."

Conflicting laws around the purchase of firearms are taking effect across different states. In California, credit card companies must provide banks with retail codes for gun stores in order to help track their sales. But the opposite is happening in four states where it is now illegal for banks and credit card companies to track that information. Stephanie Sy discussed more with David Leib.

A major issue in Britain’s general election is the cost of living crisis, caused by spiking inflation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That has put pressure on the country’s pledge, written into law, to become carbon neutral by 2050. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Aberdeen, Scotland, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

Prominent musicians from George Gershwin and Miles Davis to John Lennon were also crossover artists in another medium. The Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is now on that list. He's combining his music and paint and fans are flocking to see his art. Special correspondent Mike Cerre reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision on former President Trump's immunity from some legal prosecution has the potential to transform the powers of the presidency. Jeffrey Brown and Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College discussed how the ruling fits with history.

It’s been more than two years since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, nearly two dozen states have banned or restricted access to the procedure and abortion pills. Special correspondent Sarah Varney traveled to Tennessee to report on the disproportionate impact abortion bans are having on Black women. It's part of our series, Race Matters.

Priyanka Mattoo is an L.A.-based writer and filmmaker whose new memoir, "Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones," chronicles her peripatetic search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles. She gives her Brief But Spectacular take on dreaming of home.