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October 15, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

57m 46s

October 15, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

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  • Nobel-winning economist on causes of global inequality: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nobel-winning economist on causes of global inequality

    S2024 E289 - 5m 34s

    The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to a trio of economists who have published research that looks at what accounts for inequality between countries and how the role of institutions, government and colonialism affected prosperity generations later. One of the winners, Simon Johnson, joined Geoff Bennett to discuss the award and some of these findings.

  • Trump ramps up extreme rhetoric in final weeks of campaign: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trump ramps up extreme rhetoric in final weeks of campaign

    S2024 E289 - 4m 41s

    Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris made stops in North Carolina, while out West, Former President Donald Trump ratcheted up his political rhetoric. Now both candidates are in opposite corners of one of the most important states in this election, Pennsylvania. Laura Barrón-López reports.

  • Non-Spanish speaking Latinos reclaim culture after shaming: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Non-Spanish speaking Latinos reclaim culture after shaming

    S2024 E289 - 9m 46s

    While language can connect people to their culture and be a source of pride, it can also bring about embarrassment and anxiety. According to the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of U.S. Hispanics say it's not necessary to speak Spanish to identify as Latino. Still, 54 percent of those who don't speak the language say other Latinos have made them feel badly about it. Laura Barrón-López reports.

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on latest campaign strategies: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on latest campaign strategies

    S2024 E289 - 8m 2s

    NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including polls showing the presidential race is still in a dead heat with just three weeks to go until Election Day, how Kamala Harris is trying to reach more voters and Donald Trump's extreme rhetoric.

  • Israeli attack outside Gaza hospital kills at least 4: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Israeli attack outside Gaza hospital kills at least 4

    S2024 E289 - 6m 9s

    A weekend of death and destruction gave way to another day of carnage Monday in Gaza and Lebanon as Israeli forces struck multiple sites in both places. Israel suffered its own losses as troops came under fire from Hezbollah. But much of the focus fell on Gaza and an Israeli attack outside a major hospital. Leila Molana-Allen reports. A warning, images and accounts in this story are disturbing.

  • Colleges reach out to overlooked students from rural areas: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Colleges reach out to overlooked students from rural areas

    S2024 E289 - 8m 37s

    Students in rural communities graduate from high school above the national average. But when it comes to applying to college or getting their degree, those students' rates of attendance and completion are well below their peers in urban and suburban areas. A New Mexico initiative is helping to narrow that gap. Stephanie Sy reports for our series, Rethinking College.

  • News Wrap: FEMA adjusts N.C. effort following threats: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    News Wrap: FEMA adjusts N.C. effort following threats

    S2024 E289 - 4m 40s

    In our news wrap Monday, FEMA said it made adjustments to its work in North Carolina following threats to its personnel, Taiwan says China launched large-scale military exercises to warn against Taiwanese independence and a NASA spacecraft lifted off on a mission to explore Jupiter moon Europa for signs of the building blocks of life.

  • What’s next for Biden’s ‘Keeping Families Together’ policy?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What’s next for Biden’s ‘Keeping Families Together’ policy?

    S2024 E288 - 5m 41s

    A Biden administration program offering a path to citizenship for up to half a million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens is on hold while a federal court considers a challenge from 16 Republican-led states. For more on this issue, John Yang speaks with Ashley DeAzevedo, president of American Families United, an advocacy group that backs the program.

  • News Wrap: Biden visits Florida in wake of Hurricane Milton: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    News Wrap: Biden visits Florida in wake of Hurricane Milton

    S2024 E288 - 2m 30s

    In our news wrap Sunday, Biden visited Florida as residents assess the storm damage from Milton and Helene, Harris campaigned in North Carolina and criticized Trump and others for spreading disinformation about federal hurricane relief, Trump said he would use the military to go after “the enemy from within” if he’s elected, and SpaceX achieved an engineering feat with one their rockets.

  • How the Pentagon is adapting to the threat of climate change: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How the Pentagon is adapting to the threat of climate change

    S2024 E288 - 7m 28s

    At a 2021 climate conference, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, “No nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis.” That sentiment reflects the Pentagon’s three-decade evolution on climate change. Ali Rogin sat down with Sherri Goodman, a former Pentagon official who chronicles that transformation in her new book, “Threat Multiplier.”

  • Civilians suffer as Israel intensifies strikes in Lebanon: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Civilians suffer as Israel intensifies strikes in Lebanon

    S2024 E288 - 7m 39s

    Israel is stepping up its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon as it wages a multi-front war against Hamas and Hezbollah. In southern Lebanon, an Israeli airstrike on a century-old market killed one person and wounded several others, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called for the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers from the region. John Yang speaks to special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen in Beirut.

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