July 13, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

Texas Democrats fighting against a restrictive voting bill took their case to Washington Tuesday as President Joe Biden made his push for strengthening voting rights laws nationwide. Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, met with Biden along with other civil rights leaders last week to discuss voting rights. He joins Yamiche Alcindor now to weigh in on the country's ballot battle.

National Interagency Fire Center reports more than 65 major fires in Western U.S. states that have burned close to a million acres so far. Thousands have fled their homes. The largest fire in the country is in Southern Oregon, and has already burned more than 150,000 acres — twice the size of Portland. William Brangham discusses the fires with Rich Tyler of the Oregon State Fire Marshal's office.

Special correspondent Cat Wise and producer Kate McMahon report from Mississippi, where many working parents struggled to find affordable, quality child care long before the pandemic. Among the most impacted: single mothers who are often stuck in low-paying jobs and can't always access government support. This is the second report in our series "Raising the Future: America’s child care dilemma."

As statues of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend, special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston explored an exhibit by Sonya Clark in Lincoln, Massachusetts at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, which features a look at the making of, and meaning behind, the Confederate flag.

It has been eight months since former president Donald Trump's election loss to President Joe Biden. But Trump has falsely and repeated claimed the election was rigged against him. Judy Woodruff discusses his defeat and his chaotic, controversial final year in office with Michael Bender of The Wall Street Journal, author of "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost."

Texas Democrats fighting against a restrictive voting bill took their case to Washington Tuesday as President Joe Biden made his push for strengthening voting rights laws nationwide. Lisa Desjardins begins our reports, then Yamiche Alcindor is joined by Congressman Van Taylor, who just returned to Washington from his district near Dallas, for a Republican perspective on voting legislation.

A fire swept through a COVID hospital ward in southern Iraq overnight, killing at least 92 and injuring more than 100. Nick Schifrin reports.