May 16, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode

More than 100 million American households have money in bank accounts protected by the FDIC. The agency’s chairman, Martin Gruenberg, is facing calls to resign after a recent audit and major news investigation found serious problems with the FDIC’s workplace culture. Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Rebecca Ballhaus, an investigative reporter who broke this story for The Wall Street Journal.

The U.N. warns the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is growing more acute. In southern Gaza, a quarter of the population faces catastrophic levels of food insecurity and in northern Gaza, nearly one in three children are severely malnourished. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Martin Griffiths, the U.N.'s top humanitarian official, about what he calls one of the worst years for humanitarian crises.

President Biden used executive privilege to deny House Republicans access to audio from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The October 2023 interview centered on the president’s handling of classified documents. Republicans requested the audio and planned to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to provide it. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Carrie Johnson.

Former President Trump's one-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, spent his third day on the stand Thursday in a Manhattan courthouse. Cohen is now the key witness in the case against his former boss, and he again faced hours of scrutiny over many lies and misstatements he’s made. William Brangham was in the courtroom reports on the latest.

Among the families caught in the war between Israel and Hamas is the Abu Zaiter family. Three-year-old Julia suffers from alternating hemiplegia, or AHC, an extremely rare neurological disorder that causes muscle stiffness, seizures and paralysis. Several families with children who have AHC have rallied to help Julia. Among them is Simon Frost, who discussed those efforts with Amna Nawaz.

This week marks 70 years since the Supreme Court's landmark civil rights ruling of Brown v. Board of Education integrated public education. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Annette Gordon Reed of Harvard Law School and the first Black student to enroll in an all-white school in her Texas hometown in 1963, and Kevin Young of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.