340K views · 8.1K reactions | The confirmation of Lloyd Austin as the first black secretary of Defense is a milestone. Nick Schifrin reports on how it also spotlights racial disparities at the highest level of the military ranks. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

The National Archives has confirmed that it found classified national security information in the boxes of documents former President Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago home. The agency referred the matter to the Justice Department. to.pbs.org/2xQQeuL | PBS NewsHour

11K views · 133 reactions | Four decades ago, the first-ever cases of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were publicly noted — and hardly noticed. By the end of 1981, the CDC counted 270 confirmed cases of “severe immune deficiency,” the disease that later became known as AIDS. @JudyWoodruff and @WmBrangham report. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

#OnThisDay in 1975, “The Robert MacNeil Report” premiered, marking the beginning of what we now know as the PBS NewsHour. MacNeil and Jim Lehrer first joined forces to provide unprecedented, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings on public television in 1973. That collaboration sparked a longtime partnership dedicated to in-depth, trustworthy journalism. Within months after its debut, “The Robert MacNeil Report” became “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report.” In 1983, the show expanded to

6.4K views · 115 reactions | New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including Israel's plans to exert more control over Gaza have been criticized by global leaders but the Trump administration's response has been muted, the Texas redistricting battle and Trump's makeover of the White House. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

While watching a program about Shakespeare, the Wadlow family realized that the painting that hung above their television set for 50 years might also be of the famous playwright. “Picturing Shakespeare” premieres tonight on Secrets of the Dead! | PBS