Speaker of the House John Boehner told Judy Woodruff Monday that Congress gets along most of the time and that disagreements mostly occur over major bills. He also discussed his relationship with President Obama, the GOP presidential race and the chances of a deficit deal.
Hari Sreenivasan and a Wall Street Journal reporter discuss how Egypt's threat to send 19 Americans to trial might jeopardize the country's access to U.S.
Catholic leaders are pushing back against a new Obama administration ruling requiring employers who offer health insurance to provide no-cost contraception. Betty Ann Bowser reports.
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Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
In this moment of looming change in American health care, the debate over whether flu shots should be mandatory for hospital workers has become a smaller but important battle in the nation's ongoing fight to build a better system while protecting individual liberties.
Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here are a trio of queries on raters, stock exchanges and the Greek debt crisis.
The Greek government declared Saturday that it had reached partial agreement with its euro area creditors on a $170 billion bailout package. But a gulf of differences remains, with only a day of talks to go.
The U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia extended the jail time of Khmer Rouge chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, from 19 years to a life sentence on Friday.
As European countries continue to struggle with how to resolve the region's financial crisis, one of the key voices in that effort is set to make an appearance on Tuesday's NewsHour.
This week, the NewsHour's American Graduate team took a look at juvenile justice and gang violence as it relates to the dropout crisis. Victor Rios, a former gang member turned sociology professor, and Richard Ross, a photographer who documents what life is like for young people in prison, were part of a Friday afternoon chat.
Most of Beirut's albums have followed the travels of singer Zach Condon and center heavily around foreign musical traditions. On the latest album, "The Rip Tide," Condon breaks his wanderlust streak and brings the sound home.
Nigerians not only are bracing for further attacks by the hard-line Islamist sect Boko Haram, they're also worried that disenchanted poor youth in the northern city of Kano might be drawn to the radical group.
On Wednesday's NewsHour broadcast, we aired an excerpt of a "NOVA" piece about a dense trove of ice age fossils found in Colorado. One theory is that the animals were killed by a phenomenon called liquefaction during an earthquake. We take a closer look at modern cases of liquefaction.
Nevada has the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country. How are these issues affecting how young people in the state vote? Washington Week partnered with the University of Nevada, Reno to find out what problems students think should be at the forefront of the state's caucuses.
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The National Retail Federation estimates that 5.1 million people will buy a new television specifically to watch the Super Bowl. OPB's Earth Fix looks at the afterlife of the televisions that get thrown out and what options exist for recycling our e-waste.
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On the eve of the Republican caucuses, Nevada still faces the worst foreclosure problem in the nation. Need to Know examines why federal programs designed to alleviate the problem haven't had greater impact.
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Feb. 6, 2012
Facebook, the place where 800 million people share photos, dating status, likes and dislikes, has taken the first steps towards becoming a public company, which means that soon anyone with enough cash can own a share of Facebook itself.
