June 30, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

In our news wrap Wednesday, search teams recovered four more bodies from a collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida, the head of the CDC said mask guidelines will be left to local officials, an indigenous group in Canada reports finding another 182 sets of human remains near a former school in British Columbia, and former President Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who championed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died. His family said he passed away Tuesday in Taos, New Mexico. Nick Schifrin reports on his life and legacy.

The U.S. is on the verge of completing a unilateral and unconditional withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly 20 years after it invaded, and the outgoing U.S. military commander has delivered a new stark warning about the future of the country: the prospect of civil war. Nick Schifrin joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.

It's been more than a week since polls closed in New York City, but there is still no call on the Democratic primary results that will likely determine the next mayor of America's largest city. A new system of voting called ranked choice has been one cause for the wait. Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham university, joins Yamiche Alcindor to discuss.

The decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to overturn the sexual assault conviction of actor Bill Cosby on Wednesday stunned many. The court said that Cosby's due process rights were violated when he was charged in 2015 for a 2004 assault. Neama Rahmani, a trial attorney in Los Angeles and a former federal prosecutor, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.

After years of pressure in and out of court, the NCAA moved this week to allow athletes to make money. Beginning Thursday, college athletes in the U.S. will be able to make financial deals that capitalize on their celebrity. Kevin Blackistone, an ESPN panelist, journalism professor at the University of Maryland and a sports commentator for The Washington Post, joins John Yang to discuss.

Summer is here, but the disruptions caused by the pandemic are affecting summer plans of some students and teachers. Educators around the country are scrambling to help students catch up. Many are utilizing billions in federal stimulus funds to beef up their summer school programs. Stephanie Sy reports from Atlanta.

Throughout the month of June, LGBTQ communities in the U.S. have been celebrating Pride in cities and states around the country. And corporate America has made itself a part of that, too, by increasingly tapping into Pride Month and trying to showcase its efforts to increase diversity and inclusion. But there are concerns Pride Month has lost some of its political focus. Lisa Desjardins reports.

As the pandemic filled American hospitals and brought life to a near standstill in 2020, the longstanding opioids epidemic was only intensifying, essentially out of sight. As Amna Nawaz reports, the death toll from that epidemic, once centered on rural, largely white parts of the country, appears to have shifted more heavily to urban, African-American communities.