January 26, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode

Congress has just started its new term, but many senators and Senate hopefuls are already thinking about the next election. Rep. Adam Schiff became the second Democrat to jump into the race for Senate in California, and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego announced he's running against Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter joined Geoff Bennett to discuss.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has cleared the way for former President Trump to return to the platforms in the coming weeks. It comes two years after Trump was suspended following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Twitter also reinstated Trump's account, but he hasn’t tweeted since the decision. Sheera Frenkel of the New York Times joined Amna Nawaz to discuss.

Members of the Republican National Committee are meeting this week to determine the party's next leader. But the race for RNC chair between incumbent Ronna McDaniel and challenger Harmeet Dhillon is revealing deeper divisions in the GOP as Republicans hope to build a winning strategy for the 2024 campaign. Erik Iverson, former chair of the Montana Republican Party, joined Amna Nawaz to discuss.

Canadian health authorities had previously said that a low risk amount of alcohol was about ten drinks per week. Now a panel of advisors to the government, citing some of this research on alcohol’s impacts, suggested lowering that to two drinks per week. Dr. Tim Naimi of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research joined William Brangham to discuss the analysis.

This week's mass shootings in California, plus two others in just eight days, left 25 people dead and wounded 15 others. They also left many people to cope with the trauma of these attacks. Jennifer Carlson is studying the impact and aftermath of gun violence for the National Science Foundation. She joined Geoff Bennett to discuss how these shootings fundamentally change communities.

Five fired police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, have been charged with second-degree murder in a killing that has echoed across the country. The victim, Tyre Nichols, died after a confrontation during a traffic stop earlier this month. Attorneys for Nichols' family say body camera footage shows a police beating that lasted three minutes. John Yang reports.

A response from artists to Hurricane Maria and its aftermath is billed as the first major U.S. Museum exhibition of Puerto Rican art in nearly 50 years. The 2017 disaster inspired some 50 works by 20 Puerto Rican artists based on the island and elsewhere. Jeffrey Brown visited New York’s Whitney Museum for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.