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In a White House meeting with the executives of the nation's largest banks, President Obama called on financial institutions to step up efforts to revive the U.S. economy after they received "extraordinary" financial assistance.
A young woman without health insurance. A small business owner. A woman just diagnosed with breast cancer. The PBS NewsHour talks to health policy analysts about how health care reform could affect real people.
What is known about the current H1N1 influenza outbreak? How is the government preparing for the next big threat? In an hour-long documentary to air Monday, Ray Suarez explores the science and policy of this year's swine flu pandemic.
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s international reporting and analysis.
Online coverage of the arts from Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters.
On-the-ground reports from Ray Suarez on health issues around the world.
Track how 12 different U.S. communities adapt to changing economic times.
Profiles, readings and conversations with contemporary American poets.
Betty Ann Bowser helps decode the debate over health care reform.
Paul Solman explains the ins and outs of the global economy.
Covering efforts to tackle the world's biggest challenges in the smallest of ways.
Purpose-built videos for teachers supported by lesson plans with content-based standards.
Bringing the views of ordinary citizens to the national discussion on the important issues of the day.
Coverage of the critical issues in science and technology reporting.
Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
Ray Suarez is all over the world tonight. While he is covering the climate conference in Copenhagen for the NewsHour, his special documentary on the H1N1 virus will be airing coast to coast tonight on PBS stations. Ray shares a few thoughts on the why the documentary happened and what we can expect tonight.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday that three American hikers who "illegally" entered Iran in July would go on trial, though he did not specify when.
After a weekend spent passing a $1.1 trillion spending bill, the Senate will once again take up the complex issue of health care reform Monday afternoon.
China, India and other developing nations brought U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen to a temporary stop on Monday over demands that wealthy countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.
After weeks of trying to persuade regulators that it was sound enough to stand on its own, Citigroup announced early Monday that it has struck a deal with the Treasury Department to repay $20 billion of taxpayers' dollars it received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The agreement comes as leaders of the nation's largest financial firms prepare for a meeting at the White House later today with President Barack Obama.
The world lost one of the giants in modern economics Sunday when Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson died at his home in Belmont, Mass., at the age of 94. Samuelson became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics in 1970 for his pivotal work in bringing mathematical analysis to economics.
As the U.N. summit on climate changes continues in Copenhagen, Denmark, Marketplace and KQED have on-site blogging, background reports from different countries and photos documenting changes in climates from around the world.
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Over the next five years, as many as 30,000 U.S. service members and their families will descend on the U.S. territory of Guam, nearly tripling its presence there. NOW on PBS travels to Guam to find out whether the small island can support such a large infusion of people, why the buildup is vital to the U.S. and how some there are opposing it.
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In an online and on-air collaboration, WNYC is tracking stories of economic activity in New York City. Explore a map of jobs lost or found, stores opening or closing, good deals on rent, and other listener stories.
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Dec. 11, 2009
Baruani Ndume fled the Democratic Republic of Congo to Tanzania when he was seven. Now 16, he has won the 2009 Children's Peace Prize for his radio show highlighting the challenges children face in African refugee camps.
