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Between 2010's "Eat, Pray, Love" and the 2014 film adaptation of the memoir "Wild," the solo female traveler has become a Hollywood trope. Yet, it's not just in books and films. 

Earlier this year, we reported on the growing market catering to solo female travelers — including airplane rows reserved for solo women travelers, women-only sets of tours and luxury hotel chains offering solo packages.

Some travel companies recently reported that a substantial percentage of their solo travelers are women.

Watch:  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-women-are-drawn-to-solo-travel-and-how-the-tourism-industry-is-responding 

Robert MacNeil, a driving force behind the show that would become the NewsHour on PBS, died Friday at the age of 93.

Along with Jim Lehrer, MacNeil's Emmy-winning series of special reports on the 1973 gavel-to-gavel primetime coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings was also the turning point for the future of daily news on @PBS, leading to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report, before it was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and other subsequent iterations, all the way up to the PBS NewsHour.

As co-founder and anchor, he helped guide millions through extraordinary times with his intelligent, passionate and humane storytelling. MacNeil, known to his friends as Robin, retired from the nightly show on Oct. 20, 1995. The GIF below includes his last goodbye from the anchor desk with Lehrer.

Read more:  https://to.pbs.org/441cZaf 

Special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to deny the former president's request for immunity from prosecution.

“The president’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Smith wrote in a legal brief.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case on April 25 and will decide the legally untested question about whether a former president can claim presidential immunity from criminal prosecution "for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”

Trump faces four counts related to efforts to halt the transfer of power to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election, in addition to dozens of other charges in other cases.



Read more:  https://to.pbs.org/4cNOL7w 

The sun disappeared behind the moon Monday in a rare total solar eclipse.

Millions of people flocked to the "path of totality," where the moon will completely block out the sun, for a chance to experience nearly four minutes of total darkness.

The eclipse made its way into North America at Mazatlan, Mexico, as seen in this timelapse from NASA.  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-the-2024-total-solar-eclipse 

Monday's total solar eclipse will darken skies along a 115-mile-wide path across North America.

This year’s eclipse is expected to be a bigger, longer spectacle than the one that passed over the United States in 2017.

Here’s a short guide on how to watch this spring’s eclipse, even if you don’t have front-row seats to the big show in the sky:  https://to.pbs.org/3VU0Dyy 

With the total solar eclipse approaching in just a few days, here’s a quick look at whether you’re in the path of totality.

The April 8 solar eclipse will last up to 4 minutes and 28 seconds for those in the path of totality. During this time, the moon will line up perfectly between the Earth and the sun, blocking out its light. Fifteen U.S. states will be in the path.

Be sure to find yourself a pair of special eclipse glasses, which are essential to protecting your eyes when viewing the spectacle. Regular sunglasses won’t be able to offer adequate protection. 

We have exciting news to share: PBS NewsHour has been nominated for two Webby Awards!

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PBS NewsHour science animations are nominated in the Social – Social Content Series: Education & Science category  https://bit.ly/4cILfeo 

PBS NewsHour’s Instagram channel is nominated in the Social – General Social: News & Politics category  https://bit.ly/3UbnQvf 

Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 102.

Conter was a quartermaster on the ship, standing on the main deck as Japanese planes flew overhead on Dec. 7, 1941. As told in his biography, "The Lou Conter Story," he tended to the wounded along with the other survivors and only abandoned ship once everyone had been rescued.

“The 2,403 men that died are the heroes. And we’ve got to honor them ahead of everybody else. And I’ve said that every time, and I think it should be stressed,” Conter told The Associated Press in 2022.


📸 Photo from 2015 by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images 

The World Meteorological Organization issued a red alert warning this week about warming and climate change, saying 2024 is shaping up to be another record year for heat and the planet.

One of the many worries about how the planet is changing, thanks in part to human activity, is the record-shattering warming of the world’s oceans.

William Brangham spoke with John Abraham, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of St. Thomas who is part of an international consortium of researchers monitoring ocean temperatures, to learn more:  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-researcher-on-whats-causing-the-record-rise-in-ocean-temperatures 

What does the future of the internet look like?

We asked Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, for his  #BriefButSpectacular  take:  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/467941/vint-cerf