PBS News Hour full episode, Oct. 27, 2025

From PBS NewsHour.

Monday on the News Hour, President Trump visits Japan to meet its newly elected conservative prime minister, one stop on a multi-country trip to Asia with a focus on trade. Hurricane Melissa nears landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm. Plus, Vermont’s recent floods reveal, with devastating clarity, how climate change can magnify the already critical shortage of affordable housing.

WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS
Trump visits Japan’s new PM ahead of meeting with China’s Xi

Hurricane Melissa nears landfall in Jamaica as Cat. 5 storm

News Wrap: Federal worker union calls for end to shutdown

Vermont town debates building on higher ground after floods

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump and a 3rd term

Sudan’s cultural heritage becomes casualty in civil war

Jesse Jackson’s political legacy explored in new book

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00:00 – Introduction
02:37 – Trump Abroad
10:35 – Hurricane Melissa
15:55 – News Wrap
21:08 – Tipping Point
30:15 – Politics Monday
38:18 – Culture in Crisis
46:25 – "A Dream Defferred"