Saturday on PBS News Weekend, as the government shutdown begins a new month, tens of millions of low-income Americans who ...

Friday on the News Hour, the ongoing federal shutdown threatens critical funding for Head Start, which serves children and families nationwide. The civil war in Sudan escalates into a brutal new phase ...

In the standoff over the government shutdown, Republicans tried something new, offering a Senate bill that would pay some ...

The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago. “The Robert MacNeil Report” first appeared on ...

The government shutdown has far-reaching effects for federal workers. Hundreds of thousands have been furloughed and many others are working without a paycheck. Some may be out of work permanently ...

To mark our anniversary, PBS News spoke with people who have been longtime viewers to hear how the show, and later its work ...

Jamaica is suffering extensive damage from the devastating force of Hurricane Melissa. It's just the second Atlantic storm ever to make landfall with winds up to 185 mph. William Brangham reports and ...

Sudan's civil war has entered a new and horrific phase as paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have gone on a killing rampage after taking over the key city of El Fasher in western Darfur. Hundreds of ...

Over the last five decades, PBS NewsHour has gone through several changes. The evening newscast began its long, storied ...

Fifty years ago today, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought viewers like you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour evening ...