How does a congregation deal when their beloved pastor is terminally ill? See this piece about perhaps this country’s best known Unitarian-Universalist minister, Reverend Forrest Church of New York. Watch.
* Housing market in Europe plummets
* Afghanistan spirals into chaos
* Egypt tries to stop smugglers
* Series: rising global food prices – Ukraine
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* Global interest rates cut
* The International reaction to the U.S. debates
* Series: rising global food prices – Argentina
* Penguins astray in Brazil
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Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional notions of reality. In this video, the artist discusses his installation Obit (2008), on view in New York. Watch the interview…
* International markets react to the U.S. crisis
* Anti-government protests in Thailand
* Hate crimes in Russia
* Series: rising global food prices
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At the Havana Boxing Academy on the outskirts of Cuba’s capital, boys hand-picked as future Olympians live and train with a single purpose: to bring home the gold. This report follows the boys’ 8 months of training for the National Boxing Championships. Watch.
The fire started on Sunday, October 8, 1871, in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, and burned through early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The blaze killed hundreds of people, destroyed about four square miles in Chicago, and caused billions of dollars in damages. Despite the devastation, reconstruction efforts encouraged the world’s first skyscrapers [...]
Some parrots can talk — but can they really understand what they’re saying? In this podcast, researcher Irene Pepperberg describes her cognitive experiments with African grey parrots, and discusses why the line between human and animal intelligence is sometimes blurry. Listen now…
Georgetown University’s legal and finance scholar Emma Coleman Jordan looks at the politics of the Wall Street bailout debate on Capitol Hill and ‘Main Street’. Watch now.
On October 7, 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected as the governor of California. Roger Rosenblatt called it a “victory for the outsider,” “politics as unusual,” “a breath of fresh air” on NewsHour. As governor, Schwarzenegger surprised voters when he prioritized the issues of greenhouse gases and smog.
