PBS News Hour full episode, August 21, 2026
Friday on the News Hour, the White House ballroom project gets a boost from the Supreme Court, and the nation’s capital prepares for the president’s latest spectacle, an IndyCar race. A big merger and economic winds could blow a Hollywood icon out of California. Plus, we investigate the U.S. Forest Service’s widespread use of the controversial herbicide Roundup.
WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS:
Trump’s ballroom gets boost from Supreme Court
https://youtu.be/3gXS1Zq5ld0
News Wrap: Defense rests in murder trial of Lindsay Clancy
https://youtu.be/ndKB3_HieSs
Paramount’s threat to leave California divides Hollywood
https://youtu.be/J37mOVNkLR8
U.S. ambassador on tensions between Israel, Turkey, Syria
https://youtu.be/9EIJIRtbjn8
Brooks and Capehart on how the economy defined the primaries
https://youtu.be/IExkQutBWuU
Record amounts of glyphosate sprayed in California forests
https://youtu.be/9j0SXxyf9pI
Poorna Jagannathan joins Amna Nawaz on ‘Settle In’
https://youtu.be/e4hD8klk-bQ
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00:00 – INTRO
02:23 – Trump’s Washington
08:20 – News Wrap
14:47 – Hollywood Drama
21:24 – Middle East Tensions
29:17 – Brooks & Capehart
41:24 – Spraying Forests
50:45 – Settle-In
54:31 – Promo
55:12 – Goodnight
