PBS NewsHour - Segments

Though new developments in a COVID-19 vaccine have been all over the news, a viable vaccine is still far off. What should Americans be doing to protect themselves and their loved ones, especially leading up to the holiday season? Dr. Caitlin Rivers, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, joins Hari Sreenivasan for the latest on COVID, including new CDC quarantine guidelines. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have agreed that a bipartisan relief bill worth $900 billion is a starting point, the House of Representatives voted to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, widespread flooding in Indonesia kills at least five people, and an Alabama man turns 104 after surviving COVID-19. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The Biden White House transition continues though the president-elect is already facing what may be his greatest challenges, as the pandemic fills hospitals and jars the economy again. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign continues to lose its legal challenges in moving to dispute the election result. Judy Woodruff has the story. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The latest jobs report released by the Department of Labor Friday estimates the economy has not yet replaced about 10 millions jobs lost last spring, with many Americans now close to losing their unemployment benefits. Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project and a former chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss the country's economic outlook. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The first doses of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine are on their way to the United Kingdom, the earliest western country to grant emergency authorization. The vaccine is manufactured by the U.S pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, but most of the 1.3 billion shots Pfizer hopes to deliver in 2021 will be produced in the tiny factory town of Puurs, Belgium. Special correspondent Lucy Hough reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

While House Democrats lost races in some Republican-leaning districts, one Republican was ousted by a challenger from his own party on the right. Lisa Desjardins spoke with Rep. Denver Riggleman, a first-term Virginia Republican, about why he lost the race. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the Biden team's transition to the White House and the impact of Trump's election fraud claims. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

As another week of this devastating pandemic comes to an end, NewsHour is taking a moment to honor some of those we've lost to COVID-19. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Women in the U.S. are more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than anywhere else in the developed world, according to the Commonwealth Fund. Native American women face some of the highest rates of death, and in Arizona, those disparities are even more profound. From the Cronkite School of Journalism, Jennifer Alvarez reports on an effort to fight maternal mortality among Native Americans. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The U.S. hit new milestones with the coronavirus Wednesday with record numbers of hospitalization, deaths and a medical staffing system that's burning out. Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief clinical officer for the Providence Health System, which runs hospitals across the country, joins Judy Woodruff discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Thursday, another 712,00 people filed for jobless benefits last week, tripling the average total from before the pandemic. And momentum is building for a new economic relief measure in Washington as COVID-19 numbers continue to surge in the United States. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

With just weeks left in the year, bipartisan support is growing in Congress for a more than $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. If passed, it would extend aid for small businesses, unemployment benefits and provide extra funding for state and local governments. Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is among those backing the bipartisan negotiations. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

It was exactly one year ago Thursday that California Sen. Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race, citing a lack of funds. Now she is poised to break barriers as the first woman, first Black American and first South-Asian American vice president. Yamiche Alcindor reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

As President-elect Joe Biden continues to unroll selections for his Cabinet, some have questioned how diverse his choices have been thus far. Yamiche Alcindor spoke with California Rep. Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, to learn more. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

More than 1 million Uighurs, an ethnic-Muslim minority in China, are being detained in hundreds of Chinese detention facilities and camps, where there are reports of widespread torture and detentions that have evolved into forced labor. The Department of Homeland Security is now banning products thought to be made in China by forced Uighur labor. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders