PBS News Hour

Season 46, Episode 159

Episode Title: August 11, 2021

Air Date: 2021-08-11

Overview:

Wednesday on the NewsHour, Democrats push for a broader investment in families and ways to tackle the climate crisis, the Taliban continues to rapidly seize territory in its bid to regain control of the country, and an experimental new technology hopes to harness a brain-machine interface to help people with paralysis.