July 7, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

The president of Haiti was assassinated Wednesday morning in his home on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Jovenel Moise had been in office for four years. His wife, Martine, was wounded in the brazen attack. Yamiche Alcindor begins our coverage and speaks with Robert Fatton, a professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, who has written widely on Haiti.

In our news wrap Wednesday, officials said there was no chance of finding the people still missing in the Surfside rubble alive. Florida was spared major damage or any deaths from tropical storm Elsa. Three undercover police officers in Chicago are recovering after being shot early this morning. The World Health Organization appealed for extreme caution in fully lifting COVID-19 restrictions.

Tuesday night, two weeks after polls closed in New York City, Brooklyn borough president and former police captain Eric Adams was declared the winner of the Democratic primary, making him heavily favored to become the city's next mayor. Adams joins Judy Woodruff to discuss how he will confront the city's battered economy and rising rates of gun violence and homicide.

Approximately 20,000 U.S. military members are sexually assaulted annually. But only 7,816 reported those cases, and only in 350 cases were perpetrators charged with a crime. President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin created an independent commission to examine possible solutions and endorsed its findings. Nick Schifrin discusses said findings with commission chair Lynn Rosenthal.

As the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan nears its completion, the Afghan army is quickly losing ground throughout the country to the Taliban. To bolster its military, the government is arming militias to help in the fight. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson traveled to two provinces near the capital — Parwan and Logar — to meet militia men who have Afghan leaders worried about a new civil war.

Environmental health advocate Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ), where she works on multiple fronts to improve public health and economic development, including access to water and sanitation amidst the growing threat of climate change. Tonight, she gives her Brief But Spectacular take on fighting America’s dirty secret.