At an annual shareholders meeting in Florida Tuesday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon apologized for the company's recent losses and survived a pair of shareholder votes on his pay and job responsibilities. Judy Woodruff discusses the turmoil -- including news of an FBI inquiry of the company -- with Dawn Kopecki of Bloomberg News.
Margaret Warner and guests discuss the first-ever Congress-mandated national Alzheimer's plan and its 2025 deadline to curb the number of Americans with Alzheimer's.
At San Francisco General Hospital, surgeons from developing countries are learning the latest techniques from top U.S. specialists. With just over 100 orthopedic surgeons serving the 80 million people of Kenya and Tanzania, it's admittedly a small step. But doctors there say it's a worthy one. Spencer Michels reports.
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Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
When world leaders gather this weekend at the NATO and Group of Eight summits, they have two major items on the table -- wrapping up the Afghan war and handling Europe's financial crisis. So what are the signs that they will make any progress?
Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on economic news. Tuesday's query: Can Americans eat, travel, have a home and pay medical essentials on $10 per hour?
The latest CBS News/New York Times survey found that 36 percent of voters said the economy was getting better, compared with 24 percent who responded it was getting worse.
President Obama's pronouncement in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers' decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers' domestic partners, but some advocates believe it could reinforce a decade-long trend toward coverage.
Saima Anwar lives in the Swat area of northern Pakistan. Her family was poor and couldn't pay for her education, so she worked a part-time job to get through school. But when she wanted to become a lawyer -- a profession she's "crazy about" -- she had to find a different way.
For this week's Science Nation, mathematical physicists at Rockefeller University use fluorescent dye and time lapse photography to digitally study microscopic patterns within the veins of leaves in order to better understand how nutrients flow through the plant and into its cells.
From economics correspondent Paul Solman, a suggestion for those pondering retirement: a new interactive video tool that's short, easy to use, cheesy at times but extremely insightful.
Called "Next Avenue," a new PBS multimedia initiative -- aimed at people over 50 -- taps experts and trusted sources for information about health, finances, work, leisure and caregiving.
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For years, professor and author Peter Dewitz has worked on basal readers -- a series of textbooks used to teach reading to schoolchildren. Learning Matters producer Cat McGrath and Dewitz discuss the business of education publishing.
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In anticipation of an exciting election season, PBS launched an aggregate election news center on Super Tuesday. The page will host content from affiliate station sites as well as NewsHour, Frontline, Need to Know and Washington Week.
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May 15, 2012
President Obama clearly stated his support for same-sex marriage for the first time as president in a recent interview with ABC News. The statement placed Obama firmly on the side of gay rights advocates ahead of an election that's likely to spotlight social issues polarizing many Americans.
