After a 2-month hiatus following successful heart valve surgery in April, Lehrer will once again helm the NewsHour broadcast starting June 26. He will be seen on the program 2-3 nights per week, and will also be anchoring PBS’ live coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in August and September.

This morning, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson opened the spigot on his public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls.” The artist, in association with the Public Art Fund, erected four 90- to 120-foot-tall waterfalls in the New York Harbor, situated in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Governor’s Island.

Doctors at Children’s Hospital in Boston have bred a new, see-through, zebrafish. The animals’ transparent skin gives scientists a clear view of developmental processes, such as tumor growth, in real time — making it a valuable tool for researchers. See story on NewsHour.

In July, movie audiences will journey to the center of the earth with Brendan Fraser, but you can head there right now. Join NOVA ScienceNOW host Neil DeGrasse Tyson for a fantastic voyage through Earth’s molten core—without getting burned.

Clemente’s talent and inimitable style drew legions of fans, but he was more than an exceptional baseball player. He was also a committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination and worked for social justice. This episode of American Experience is from April 21, 2008, and is watchable in Spanish also. GO

The Supreme Court issued two highly anticipated decisions Wednesday, outlawing executions of people convicted of raping a child and slashing the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million.
Last night on the NewsHour: Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal recapped the day’s court rulings and a panel of [...]

Browne, a struggling, itinerant black pastor in Louisiana — drives his old car from one poor, little church to another every Sunday. R&E told his story in 2007, which was seen by a white pastor in Texas with a large, upscale congregation. Watch both stories….

First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery –her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U. S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade — from their old hometown in Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. Step by step, [...]

The American Experience film “Summer of Love” portrays the culmination of the 1960s counter-culture movement. It relates the striking picture of San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end.

A Japanese warship docked in China Tuesday, for the first time since World War II. The destroyer Sazanami’s arrival in the southern Chinese port city of Zhanjiang follows the docking of a Chinese warship, the Shenzhen, in Japan last November. For more on the expanding role of the Japanese military, watch Japan’s About-Face, premiering on [...]