June 25, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

Amna Nawaz joins Judy Woodruff to discuss President Joe Biden's meeting Friday with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House, and Vice President Kamala Harris' first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Judy Woodruff speaks to the man at the center of negotiations for Afghanistan — both with the U.S. and the Taliban — Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.

More than a year after George Floyd's murder set off national protests and a racial reckoning, former police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison by a Minnesota judge Friday. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro begins our report from Minneapolis on the sentence and emotional hearing. Then, William Brangham looks at the continuing reverberations of this case.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the potential breakthrough on the road to an infrastructure deal, the justice department's lawsuit against Georgia's voting restrictions, and the president's plan to curb surging violent crime across the country.

In our news wrap Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a federal lawsuit against Georgia's new election law, which he says denies equal access to Black voters. Republicans charged that President Joe Biden reneged on the $953 billion infrastructure compromise after he announced it. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the U.S. southern border for the first time since taking office.

Emergency crews continued searching the rubble for those still missing Friday as the Surfside, Florida community grieves the lives lost. Stephanie Sy has our report with Patricia Mazzei, the Miami bureau chief for The New York Times.

A highly anticipated report from U.S. intelligence released Friday focuses on unidentified aerial phenomenon or UAPS, commonly known as UFOs. The report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concludes that unidentified objects clearly pose a risk to flight and a national security threat to the U.S. But the larger question about alien life remains unanswered. John Yang reports.

On this week’s episode: The Navy rocks a new aircraft carrier in an explosive test at sea, new data reveals Covid’s December 2019 arrival in the U.S., Lake Mead’s waters drop to record lows, Canadian Indigenious people regain the right to use their native names and a bubble barrier helps keep pollution from the sea.

On this week’s episode: An all-women demining team in Iraq clear explosives left from past wars, Purdue University engineers invent the whitest paint ever created to help conserve energy, a Russian sport made up of basketball, wrestling and rugball hopes to go mainstream, giant googly eyes reduce bird entanglement, and the British Royal Marines test Iron Man-like jetpacks.