May 31, 2010 at 6:36 PM EST  |   Juan Manuel Santos of the ruling National Unity Party. Photo by Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images In what was originally considered a closely contested race for president in Colombia, former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos ended up taking a comfortable lead...

May 31, 2010 at 5:32 PM EST  |   ISRAEL SEA RAID IN GAZA | A pre-dawn Israeli raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza coast has sparked international concern following the deaths of international activists who say they were trying to transport humanitarian supplies through...

May 31, 2010 at 3:28 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> It was interesting, kind of retro, to be in a country where so many people still light up, where so many stores were selling cigarettes, and the telltale odor of smoke, or a just-stubbed out butt,...

May 31, 2010 at 3:22 PM EST  |   Chairman of the Czech Civic Democratic Party Petr Necas. Photo by Antonin Korinek/AFP/Getty Images Concerns over the economic crisis in Greece helped give a leg up to conservative parties in the Czech Republic's parliamentary elections over the weekend. The...

May 31, 2010 at 9:31 AM EST  |   Injured pro-Palestinian activist evacuated from flotilla. Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images At least 10 pro-Palestinian activists carrying aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip were killed Monday when an Israeli naval ship intercepted their flotilla bound for the blockaded...

May 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM EST  |   Updated May 30, 9:15 am ET In a Saturday evening press conference, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles and Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said that the "top kill" effort to stem the Gulf oil spill had failed after...

May 29, 2010 at 11:20 AM EST  |   Friday morning we watched what is likely the last catch of shrimp from Louisiana's Barataria Bay for the foreseeable future being unloaded. That's because early Friday authorities closed down the last remaining parts of the fishing grounds that were...

May 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the Rundown Friday before their discussion with Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour broadcast. They discussed how they view the government's and President Obama's...

May 28, 2010 at 7:17 PM EST  |   When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came before a crowd of foreign policy players and former players, journalists and wonks to lay out the Obama administration's new National Security Strategy Thursday, she was self-assured and in command, talking about...

May 28, 2010 at 6:45 PM EST  |   The amount of oil that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month may be significantly higher than the preliminary estimate released Thursday by a federal panel, some scientists on the panel told the PBS...

May 28, 2010 at 6:30 PM EST  |   The 189 nations participating in a month-long conference to review the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty agreed on the final day Friday to work toward a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East. The 28-page final document calls for holding a conference...

May 28, 2010 at 5:45 PM EST  |   Pakistani police in Lahore help an injured colleague. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked two mosques filled with Ahmadi worshipers in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, killing at least 80 people, taking hostages and engaging in...

May 28, 2010 at 4:59 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> On Friday's NewsHour, Gwen Ifill previews California's contentious gubernatorial race, which is shaping up to be the most expensive political campaign in the state's history. Mark DiCamillo is the director of the California Field Poll, a...

May 28, 2010 at 4:59 PM EST  |   GULF OIL SPILL UPDATE | President Obama traveled to the Gulf for a first-hand look at the damage from the blown out oil well, as efforts continue to plug the leak. Ray Suarez reports on the growing environmental concerns, Tom...

May 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM EST  |   The key to stemming the stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico may be as clear as mud. Spill officials said this morning that blasting the leaking well with "heavy drilling mud" seem to be working to hold...

May 28, 2010 at 3:59 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> President Barack Obama said Friday that the U.S. government is doing everything it can to permanently stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and to mitigate the damage done to the local ecosystem and...

May 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM EST  |   Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media, but beyond that he is someone who is constantly thinking of the nexus between open and closed systems of information and how they interact. His company co-sponsored the recent Gov 2.0 Expo...

May 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM EST  |   Reports of fisherman who had been hired to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico falling ill have raised concerns about the health effects of the stew of oil and chemicals in the area. On Wednesday, seven workers were...

May 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM EST  |   The House of Representatives voted Thursday night to end the U.S. military ban on openly gay and bisexual service members, but the U.S. Senate and the military must act before the law known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" becomes history....

May 28, 2010 at 11:04 AM EST  |   As of 8 AM today, we've frozen our Gulf Leak Meter, based on reports that the flow of oil is being held back. "They have been able to push the hydrocarbons, or the oil, down with the mud," Coast Guard...

May 28, 2010 at 9:45 AM EST  |   I was strolling through the town square in the pretty, precious town of Mill Valley, California, last weekend, reporting on California's gubernatorial race, when I realized I might have to change my mind about politics. Only a few weeks ago,...

May 28, 2010 at 9:42 AM EST  |   A shrimp boat outfitted with oil booms makes its way to port Thursday near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. BP's latest effort to end the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico showed signs of progress...

May 27, 2010 at 9:18 PM EST  |   Technology lovers and data geeks from all over the country gathered in Washington, D.C. this week for the Gov 2.0 Expo to explore the power of data and its emerging role in government. We spoke with Google's Natasha Wyatt about...

May 27, 2010 at 8:36 PM EST  |   The Rundown took the show on the road this week, visiting the Gov 2.0 Expo in downtown Washington, D.C., to get some perspectives on efforts to make government more transparent and useful for its citizens. Everyblock.com founder Adrian Holovaty spoke...

May 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM EST  |   GULF OIL SPILL UPDATE | President Obama announced plans to curb offshore drilling in response to the Gulf spill and said the government and BP should have been better prepared to tackle such a crisis. Ray Suarez has an update...

May 27, 2010 at 4:54 PM EST  |   On Tuesday, the NewsHour put out a YouTube call for viewers to submit their own suggestions for how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and clean up the oil that's been gushing for more than...

May 27, 2010 at 3:00 PM EST  |   Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday to another five-year term, pledging the country would not return to war and that a referendum vote on the south splitting from the north would proceed next year as planned. Bashir...

May 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM EST  |   UPDATED: 6:13 PM: The New York Times is reporting that the top kill procedure has been halted by BP Thursday afternoon "when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping along...

May 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM EST  |   Attention has shifted from the financial troubles in Greece to other troubled euro zone countries. Debt concerns in countries such as Spain, Italy, and Britain continue to jitter global markets, even as those countries consider new austerity measures to...

May 27, 2010 at 9:55 AM EST  |   That giant oil slick bobbing atop of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico is just plain nasty. As Ed Overton put it, you can see it, smell it, and taste it in the back of your mouth. Overton...

May 27, 2010 at 8:54 AM EST  |   Oil settles in the marsh area of Blind Bay, Louisiana. Win McNamee/Getty Images. BP is expected to know as early as Thursday afternoon whether its latest effort to plug the five-week-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has...

May 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM EST  |   Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Courtesy of NASA The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing with six astronauts aboard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, capping the orbiter's 25-year...

May 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM EST  |   GULF OIL SPILL UPDATE | BP crews launched a long-awaited operation to stop spewing oil at the source by pumping heavy drilling fluids into the massive leak. Jim Lehrer talks to Greg McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at...

May 26, 2010 at 4:00 PM EST  |   For AP photographer Gerald Herbert, the story of the oil spill in the Gulf is personal. A New Orleans native, he worked for years out of Washington, D.C., covering Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But just after he...

May 26, 2010 at 3:52 PM EST  |   Tourists looking across the Demilitarized Zone to North Korea. Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images As fallout continues over South Korea blaming North Korea for sinking one of its navy ships in March, the two countries are planning to revisit...

May 26, 2010 at 2:44 PM EST  |   Facebook unveiled new privacy controls Wednesday, after the social networking site came under heavy criticism in recent weeks for hard-to-use new settings and for making chunks of previously private information public. Leslie Harris of the Center...

May 26, 2010 at 2:33 PM EST  |   Deepwater Horizon Unified Command has released this animation of the top kill technique that BP will begin Wednesday. You can watch a live feed of the top kill technique here. BP released the following statement Wednesday about the top...

May 26, 2010 at 12:18 PM EST  |   A House panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico says that during the hours that led up to the rig explosion, there were a series of missed and ignored warning signs that signaled significant problems...

May 26, 2010 at 11:23 AM EST  |   In an election year, the party in power ultimately lives or dies on the state of the economy -- or so goes the conventional wisdom. So, with a little less than six months before voters go to the polls, how...

May 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM EST  |   Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be rolling out simplified privacy controls Wednesday. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Facebook will unveil new, easier-to-use privacy controls Wednesday, a company executive announced on Tuesday. The announcement comes after heavy criticism,...

May 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM EST  |   Bags of oil collected from the beach await pickup Tuesday at Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. If all goes according to plan, BP on Wednesday will attempt to plug the leak that has been gushing oil...

May 25, 2010 at 9:24 PM EST  |   As the Gulf Coast oil leak continues, we want to hear your thoughts on the best way to stop the spill and also how to clean up the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Visit...

May 25, 2010 at 6:31 PM EST  |   More than a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to spew into the ocean from a pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface. Meanwhile, containment and cleanup...

May 25, 2010 at 5:39 PM EST  |   Police patrols in Kingston, Jamaica. Photo by Anthony Foster/AFP/Getty Images Clashes in Jamaica continued for a third day Tuesday between security forces and masked gunmen loyal to a Jamaican gang leader sought by U.S. authorities. At least 30 people...

May 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM EST  |   GULF OIL LEAK UPDATE | Oil from the Gulf Coast leak turned darker, suggesting heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana, where the oil has begun to damage delicate barrier island ecosystems. NEWSMAKER: BP EXECUTIVE ROBERT...

May 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM EST  |   In July, some of the first money allocated by the new health care reform law will start flowing to states to fund temporary high-risk insurance pools. These pools are intended to extend insurance coverage to some of the most medically...

May 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico's Deputy Political Editor Alexander Burns stopped by The Rundown to talk about the Republican Party's new Web initiative, which is designed to allow anyone to submit ideas to their plan to take control of the...

May 25, 2010 at 1:30 PM EST  |   The Dow Jones fell below 10,000 in trading Tuesday afternoon, as jittery markets reacted to continued economic struggles in the Eurozone and escalating tensions between North and South Korea. Europe's debt crisis continues to worry investors, sending the euro toward...

May 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM EST  |   In Cambodia, several former leaders of the Khmer Rouge are on trial for the detention and killing of thousands of Cambodians during the 1970s. The first verdict -- for prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch -- is...

May 25, 2010 at 11:32 AM EST  |   Pro-government rally in Ethiopia. Photo by Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images A sweeping win by Ethiopia's ruling party in Sunday's parliamentary elections was clouded by allegations of irregularities by opposition parties and international organizations. On Tuesday, the country's electoral board declared...

May 25, 2010 at 9:07 AM EST  |   Residents of Chalmette, Louisiana, attend a discussion Monday with parish officials and a BP representative on the oil spill clean up efforts. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images. The Environmental Protection Agency won't call on BP to stop using chemical...

May 24, 2010 at 4:24 PM EST  |   GULF OIL LEAK UPDATE | Obama administration officials and senators said they will hold BP responsible for cleaning up the Gulf spill, as heavy oil seeps into fragile marshland along the coast. Correspondent Tom Bearden gives an update on the...

May 24, 2010 at 2:20 PM EST  |   Updated 4:45 pm ET The Coast Guard admiral coordinating the federal response to the Gulf Coast oil spill said Monday it would not make sense for the government to take over control of the accident from BP. "To push BP...

May 24, 2010 at 2:15 PM EST  |   South Korea's decision to cut nearly all trade and economic assistance to North Korea, close its waters to North Korean ships, and halt visits between the two countries dramatically escalated tensions on the Korean peninsula Monday, just as U.S....

May 24, 2010 at 1:16 PM EST  |   Fewer children are dying around the world each year and the decline in child deaths is accelerating, according to a study published Monday in the Lancet. The research, done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the...

May 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM EST  |   The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the National Football League could face an antitrust lawsuit over its exclusive apparel contract with Reebok. The court reversed the decision of two lower courts, which had dismissed the lawsuit from American Needle,...

May 24, 2010 at 12:20 PM EST  |   Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Monday he has given up on efforts to find an alternative location for a controversial U.S. airbase on the island of Okinawa, and that tensions on the Korean peninsula helped him reach his decision....

May 24, 2010 at 11:23 AM EST  |   Rand Paul's victory in the Kentucky Senate primary was hailed as the first victory for a true tea party candidate. In his victory speech, Paul himself announced he was coming to "take Washington back." But a primary is not a...

May 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM EST  |   Miles O'Brien joins us again on The Rundown to talk about the last mission for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the rarity of Neil Armstrong's recent public testimony on the direction of the space program's future, and the pressure on the...

May 24, 2010 at 9:11 AM EST  |   A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Efforts to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took a step backward over the weekend. On...

May 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST  |   BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean. Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had stood...

May 21, 2010 at 7:46 PM EST  |   Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by The Rundown again on Friday to discuss Kentucky's new -- and newly controversial -- Republican Party Senate nominee Rand Paul, the strength of the tea party movement, how libertarians view the world...

May 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM EST  |   With Republicans and the tea partiers getting most of the headlines these days, it's a little surprising that liberal Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California has opened up a small but significant lead over all the Republicans running against...

May 21, 2010 at 5:19 PM EST  |   During a visit to Washington this week, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah spoke with Margaret Warner about U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the security situation and upcoming jirga aimed at bringing former Taliban fighters back into the fold. You can...

May 21, 2010 at 4:56 PM EST  |   Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday...

May 21, 2010 at 4:22 PM EST  |   FINANCIAL REFORM PASSES SENATE | Sweeping reform of the nation's financial regulatory system passed a key vote in the Senate, fast-tracking the final vote on the overhauls. Judy Woodruff speaks to financial writers Greg Ip of the Economist and Stacy-Marie...

May 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM EST  |   Foreclosures and interest rates are just numbers. Sometimes the best way to examine an economic meltdown is to jump into it with abandon, to witness the carnage up close. In a sense, that's what NPR's Planet Money reporting team did...

May 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM EST  |   Every few years, national politics seems to get a jolt. Tuesday's elections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas proved once again how Washington insider status can be a two-edged sword. One man's experience can be another's complicity - especially in times...

May 21, 2010 at 8:55 AM EST  |   Legislators and policymakers alike are reacting to the Senate's move on Thursday to approve the most sweeping rewrite of financial regulation since the Great Depression, legislation designed to shield the economy from repeating the crisis that since 2008 has left...

May 21, 2010 at 2:35 AM EST  |   Early Friday morning, BP published these two video streams this video stream online of the Gulf oil leak. This video requires Windows Media Player and works best in Firefox or Internet Explorer. The stream is now hosted courtesy of Ustream.tv....

May 21, 2010 at 1:00 AM EST  |   UPDATE: 1:27 a.m. ET Friday BP has posted a new live stream shown below. This stream is intermittent, and requires Windows Media Player. Webcam chat at Ustream The video below is an...

May 20, 2010 at 9:23 PM EST  |   In a 59-39 vote Thursday evening, the Senate passed a sweeping overhaul of how the government regulates banks and Wall Street, marking the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s and giving President Barack Obama a major policy victory....

May 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM EST  |   Dennis Blair, President Barack Obama's national intelligence director, confirmed media reports Thursday evening that he is resigning after 16 months on the job. The retired Navy admiral is the third director of national intelligence. The position was created in response...

May 20, 2010 at 6:26 PM EST  |   NPR's Steve Inskeep traveled with other correspondents to Pakistan and India to file a series of reports for Morning Edition, called "Along the Grand Trunk Road". He spoke with Kwame Holman from Islamabad about the young people he met, their...

May 20, 2010 at 5:53 PM EST  |   VOLATILITY IN THE STOCK MARKET | Stocks fell sharply in the U.S., amid concerns for the euro and the biggest rise in jobless claims in three months. Jeffrey Brown talks to financial experts Nick Perna of Yale University and James...

May 20, 2010 at 4:04 PM EST  |   Researchers have created the first cell powered by a man-made genome, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science. The genetic code of the cell was stitched together in a laboratory. "This is the first self-replicating species that...

May 20, 2010 at 3:30 PM EST  |   World health ministers agreed Thursday that alcohol advertising targeted to young people should be limited, and sponsorships regulated. The non-binding plan, approved by the World Health Organization's 193-member states, urges countries to take action to control alcohol marketing and prices,...

May 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> In an address to a joint session of Congress, Mexican President Felipe Calderon described the flow of immigrants from his country into the United States as a shared problem and asked the Congress to consider comprehensive...

May 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM EST  |   South Korean Navy Rear Adm. Park Jung-Soo in front of Cheonan wreckage. Photo by Song Kyung-Seok-Pool/Getty Images South Korea on Thursday released the results of a multinational investigation that point to North Korea's use of a torpedo in sinking...

May 20, 2010 at 9:12 AM EST  |   Torpedo parts salvaged from the Yellow Sea were displayed at a press conference in Seoul. Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images. An international civilian-military investigation team said Thursday that evidence overwhelmingly proves a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that...

May 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM EST  |   PRIMARY ELECTION ANALYSIS | Democrats and Republicans continued to voice anti-incumbent sentiments with their votes during Tuesday's primary elections. Jim Lehrer talks to Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of The Hotline and Dan Balz, senior political writer for The Washington Post, about...

May 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM EST  |   Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG must pay $250 million in punitive damages after a federal jury in New York found the company consistently discriminated against its female employees. The ruling marks the largest-ever employment discrimination verdict, according to Bloomberg data. The...

May 19, 2010 at 2:28 PM EST  |   Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and President Barack Obama at the White House. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a visit to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to discuss a range of issues with President Barack Obama, including...

May 19, 2010 at 2:19 PM EST  |   President Barack Obama renewed his support for comprehensive immigration reform Wednesday but said he needs help from Republicans in Congress to fix a "broken" system along the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in Washington for a state...

May 19, 2010 at 2:17 PM EST  |   In a year where the biggest news is an unsettled electorate, everyone is looking for signposts and many think they saw them in Tuesday night's primary results - particularly in the Senate primaries in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. But in each...

May 19, 2010 at 2:02 PM EST  |   Leaders of Thailand's Red Shirt anti-government opposition surrendered to the police in front of followers Wednesday, after six days of violent clashes with security forces. Rioters set fires at the Stock Exchange, several banks and Central World, one of...

May 19, 2010 at 1:03 PM EST  |   A panel of the nation's leading scientists on Wednesday called for more research on climate change and more action to mitigate its effects, including setting a national "budget" to limit carbon emissions. In a three-part report commissioned by Congress, the...

May 19, 2010 at 12:47 PM EST  |   After the dramatic "flash crash" of May 6, in which the Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 1,000 points in the space of a few minutes, regulators have been scrambling to pinpoint the crash's cause and find a fix....

May 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM EST  |   A Red Shirt protester is detained by Thai police Wednesday inside the Red Shirt protest camp in Bangkok. Photo by Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images. Leaders from Thailand's Red Shirt protest movement surrendered to police Wednesday, yet that was not enough...

May 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM EST  |   Incumbent Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter will face each other again in a June 8 runoff after neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Lincoln, elected to the Senate in 1998,...

May 18, 2010 at 10:41 PM EST  |   Updated 11:58 p.m. ET | Despite the backing of President Barack Obama, Gov. Ed Rendell and much of the Democratic Party apparatus, five-term Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter lost a close primary challenge from Rep. Joe Sestak. "It's no surprise...

May 18, 2010 at 8:53 PM EST  |   In a race viewed across the U.S. as a test of the strength of the tea party movement, Rand Paul beat GOP establishment favorite Trey Grayson in the Kentucky primary for U.S. Senate, The Associated Press and other media organizations...

May 18, 2010 at 6:43 PM EST  |   The Pakistani-American man accused of attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square appeared briefly in court on Tuesday evening, more than two weeks after his arrest. Faisal Shahzad, 30, was charged with five felony counts,...

May 18, 2010 at 6:22 PM EST  |   "The Wounded Platoon," the latest FRONTLINE documentary, explores the mental health implications of war by focusing on "the dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry, and how the war followed them...

May 18, 2010 at 6:01 PM EST  |   U.S. MOVES TO SANCTION IRAN | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that Russian and China have reached a deal with the United States and other world powers to impose new sanctions on Iran, a day after the country...

May 18, 2010 at 5:20 PM EST  |   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., filed a procedural motion called cloture Monday evening to end debate on the financial reform bill that has been working its way through the Senate, setting up a vote on the legislation as early...

May 18, 2010 at 4:20 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico national political reporter James Hohmann stopped by The Rundown Tuesday to talk about the first big day of the 2010 midterm season as voters head to the polls in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky to select...

May 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM EST  |   Bombing aftermath in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Getty Images The Taliban took responsibility for a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul on Tuesday that killed 18 people, including five American service members and one from Canada. A...

May 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM EST  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that China, Russia and Western powers have agreed to a draft sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear program after months of negotiations. "We have reached agreement on a strong draft with...

May 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM EST  |   U.S. Senate hopeful Rep. Joe Sestak campaigns in Philadelphia, Penn. In politics, winning is everything. And over the next few days there will be a lot of airtime and ink devoted to the winners of the Tuesday Pennsylvania, Kentucky,...

May 18, 2010 at 8:38 AM EST  |   Afghan policemen stand guard near the site of Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that struck a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul...

May 17, 2010 at 6:42 PM EST  |   With violence erupting on the streets of Bangkok for a fifth straight day, Thailand's government appeared to move closer to an agreement on a ceasefire with Red Shirt protesters, according to the Associated Press. A reported offer was made...

May 17, 2010 at 6:03 PM EST  |   With BP reporting some success in siphoning off oil leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon well, we've updated our Gulf Leak Meter to reflect a slightly slowed rate of leakage. Updated May 18, 4:30 p.m. | BP now says it...

May 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM EST  |   GULF OIL SPILL UPDATE | BP officials said the company has captured about a fifth of the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, but scientists have voiced new worries about the environmental implications of the spill. Gwen Ifill talks...

May 17, 2010 at 5:24 PM EST  |   Tuesday, May 18, marks the first big voting day in the 2010 Congressional midterm primary season, with primaries being held for Senate seats in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Those contests could show establishment politicians losing to challengers in a political...

May 17, 2010 at 3:27 PM EST  |   Iran on Monday announced plans to ship most of its enriched uranium to Turkey, an unexpected agreement that could stifle U.S. efforts to secure a new round of international sanctions against Tehran. Under the agreement, brokered by Brazil and Turkey,...

May 17, 2010 at 12:10 PM EST  |   The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that juveniles cannot be given life-sentences with no chance of parole for crimes other than murder. In a 5-4 ruling, the High Court said the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment ensures...

May 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM EST  |   General Motors announced Monday that, thanks to an uptick in sales plus lower debt and expenses after bankruptcy, it made $865 million in profit in the first quarter of this year -- its first profit posting since the second...

May 17, 2010 at 9:10 AM EST  |   BP took a significant step forward Sunday in the effort to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, connecting a mile-long tube from a ship to the damaged pipeline some 5,000 feet below water. Speaking on NBC's "Today"...

May 14, 2010 at 7:19 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields stopped by the Rundown after their regular Friday slot on the NewsHour to discuss the political impact and the broad national support for Arizona's controversial...

May 14, 2010 at 5:03 PM EST  |   GULF OIL SPILL UPDATE | President Obama called for an overhaul of how the government handles oil drilling approval, as estimates of the gulf oil leak's magnitude continue to climb. Jeffrey Brown talks to U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad...

May 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM EST  |   Nearly a month after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, one question remains unanswered: Exactly how much oil is spilling into the Gulf from the unchecked leak? Embed Code: A 30-second video released...

May 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM EST  |   Eight people are reported dead and more than 100 injured in clashes between Thai anti-government protesters and military soldiers that began Thursday and raged into the night Friday. "It's absolute chaos in the city of Bangkok now," said BBC...

May 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM EST  |   I am frequently asked if I think journalism is doomed. I happen to think it's not. We'll always need to know more; we just may have to find new ways to learn and alternate platforms from which to tell the...

May 14, 2010 at 2:31 PM EST  |   I doubt it shows up in any political science textbook, but my observation has long been that intra-party fights can be even rougher and more personal than general election battles. Remember "You're likable enough, Hillary..." from then-Sen. Barack Obama,...

May 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> President Obama on Friday castigated oil industry executives for failing to take responsibility for the Gulf Coast oil spill, blasting officials for pointing fingers of blame during Congressional hearings into the accident this week. "I did...

May 14, 2010 at 1:08 PM EST  |   Beyond the environmental effects of the gulf oil spill disaster, there are several economic ones washing ashore. Along the coast of Louisiana thousands of people in the fishing and tourism industries are suffering. Louisiana Public Broadcasting will include a story...

May 14, 2010 at 12:31 PM EST  |   The botched car bombing in New York's Times Square, and possible links to militants in Pakistan, has brought renewed attention to the group known as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad was arrested last week on allegations he packed a car...

May 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM EST  |   In the age of niche marketing there isn't much use for a standard stump speech, just ask President Obama. Over the past few months he has been roaming the country talking to crowds on what the White House calls a...

May 14, 2010 at 10:14 AM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza stopped by the Rundown to provide some details on his story explaining how the Republican game plan for retaking control of the House of Representatives includes targeting some of the most...

May 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM EST  |   Oil spill workers connect sections of oil booms to protect marshlands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. When the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last month, officials first estimated that it...

May 13, 2010 at 4:48 PM EST  |   NEW TIMES SQUARE BOMBING ARRESTS | Federal agents arrested two Pakistani men in Boston in connection with the failed attack in Times Square. Judy Woodruff talks to reporter Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal about the assistance the men...

May 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM EST  |   U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal said that although progress is being made in Afghanistan, "nobody is winning at this point," in an interview airing Thursday on the NewsHour. "I think that in the last year, we've made a...

May 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM EST  |   Over the past two days, senators have begun considering a handful of the more than 200 amendments filed to the massive financial reform bill aimed at overhauling the U.S. financial system. Already, a few key amendments have passed. Regional Feds...

May 13, 2010 at 1:48 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Ongoing political unrest in Thailand took a new turn Thursday after an anti-government army general aiding the country's Red Shirt protesters was shot in the head as he spoke with foreign reporters in Bangkok. Khattiya Sawatdiphol...

May 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM EST  |   At five-and-a-half feet tall, with brown hair, brown eyes and a beard, I can walk unnoticed in great big chunks of the world. On the streets of Lima and Mexico City, throughout the Mediterranean, across North Africa to the...

May 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM EST  |   Polls from the Pew Research Center and the Wall Street Journal/NBC show broad support for the new Arizona immigration law that critics said would lead to racial profiling of Hispanics. The Pew Poll, conducted in early May, shows that...

May 13, 2010 at 9:15 AM EST  |   Officials from BP said Wednesday they may be closer to stopping the underwater oil leak that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a month. BP officials told the New York Times that engineers have drafted plans...

May 12, 2010 at 7:29 PM EST  |   British Petroleum has released new video and images of one of the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. We aired a clip on Wednesday's PBS Newshour and our source was this video via the Joint Information Center. It...

May 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> High school senior DeaShaun Taylor wants to join the army when he graduates this spring. But Taylor, who lives in Shelby, Miss., is among the one in four young people in the United States who don't...

May 12, 2010 at 4:13 PM EST  |   OBAMA, KARZAI REAFFIRM TIES | President Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington, following months of tension over accusations of governmental corruption and Western interference.Gwen Ifill talks to former Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Alexander Their, director for Afghanistan...

May 12, 2010 at 4:00 PM EST  |   According to the coalition agreement hammered out between Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, the new U.K. government will try to set fixed terms for Parliament, maintain the country's nuclear arsenal, and trim a growing budget deficit. The full document,...

May 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM EST  |   After months of public discord, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reaffirmed their countries' strong ties and commitment to a secure and stable Afghanistan at a joint White House press conference Wednesday. "We are much more strongly related...

May 12, 2010 at 2:35 PM EST  |   On May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 70,000 people dead and 18,000 missing. In an effort to document what life is like in the region now, the American Red Cross distributed 200 disposable...

May 12, 2010 at 2:21 PM EST  |   Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Kerry (D-Mass.) unveiled a much-anticipated energy and climate bill Wednesday, aimed at reducing carbon emissions and encouraging the development of clean energy sources. The American Power Act, the Senate version of sweeping legislation already...

May 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM EST  |   I spent last week in northeastern China zipping around on new superhighways, passing millions of newly planted trees, new rail lines and massive train stations, enormous shopping malls, and skyscrapers -- all amid a people working, working, working. When...

May 12, 2010 at 11:57 AM EST  |   With costs mounting in the effort to contain the Gulf Coast oil leak, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will move to raise the cap on damages that the government can collect from oil companies during a spill. Administration officials...

May 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Great athletes are often referred to as "naturals" in their respective sports, but how much of their talent can be traced back to DNA is still uncertain to scientists. Are there genes that make some of...

May 12, 2010 at 10:16 AM EST  |   Colombia's Antanas Mockus. Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images Colombia's presidential election on May 30 is developing into an unexpectedly tight race between a Green Party candidate who represents a new face and anti-corruption efforts, and a former defense minister...

May 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Simon Marks, who has been covering the British elections for the PBS NewsHour, stopped by the Rundown to offer a preview of the political compromises that the Conservatives may have to make in order to maintain...

May 12, 2010 at 9:07 AM EST  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet at the State Department on Tuesday. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday for talks...

May 11, 2010 at 6:33 PM EST  |   The U.S. Coast Guard and the federal Minerals Management Service staged the first of two public hearings at the Radisson airport hotel in New Orleans Tuesday, as part of a joint investigation into the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil...

May 11, 2010 at 4:19 PM EST  |   U.K. PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation as Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties made agreements to form a government under Conservative Party Leader David Cameron. Jeffrey Brown talks to reporter Ned Temko of The...

May 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico White House editor Craig Gordon stopped by the Rundown Tuesday to give us a look at their reporting on President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court. Gordon told...

May 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM EST  |   Prime Minister David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. UPDATED -- 4:35 pm ET David Cameron became Britain's new prime minister on Tuesday, returning his Conservative party to power after...

May 11, 2010 at 1:50 PM EST  |   A federal task force called for marketers of sugary and other unhealthy foods to voluntarily limit their advertising to children on Tuesday. The recommendation is one of 70 in a wide-ranging new report on reducing childhood obesity that was commissioned...

May 11, 2010 at 1:09 PM EST  |   Now that European leaders have agreed to a 750 billion euro relief plan to stem Europe's debt crisis, steps are being taken to make the money available to eurozone countries in need of the help -- and...

May 11, 2010 at 12:31 PM EST  |   World's fairs are fun. There, I've said it. Campy fun, perhaps, but fun all the same. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure....

May 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM EST  |   Pope Benedict XVI speaks with reporters about the abuse scandal on his way to Portugal on Tuesday. Photo by Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images. Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday issued his strongest words to date about the abuse scandal that has...

May 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM EST  |   The nation's wealthy suburban areas, places we call the Monied 'Burb counties in Patchwork Nation, are often the fulcrum of election night. Home of famously independent voters, the decisions voters make in the Burbs, which hold some 69...

May 11, 2010 at 8:55 AM EST  |   Two oil booms surround one of the New Harbor Islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images. Executives from the three companies tied to the Gulf Coast oil spill head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Lawmakers...

May 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM EST  |   ELENA KAGAN NOMINATED TO SUPREME COURT | President Obama nominated Solicitor General and former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan to fill Justice John Paul Stevens' seat on the Supreme Court. Gwen Ifill gets four points of view from Abner...

May 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM EST  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Photo by AFP/Getty Images The July 2011 deadline President Barack Obama set to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan serves as the backdrop and lends some urgency to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's meetings in Washington,...

May 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM EST  |   After 11 hours of negotiations that stretched into early Monday, EU finance ministers have agreed to an enormous 750 billion euro bailout plan aimed at preventing the Greek financial crisis from spreading further into the eurozone....

May 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM EST  |   Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces his resignation outside No. 10 Downing St. on Monday. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation on Monday, just four days after his Labor Party placed a distant...

May 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> President Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the 112th justice on the Supreme Court. During an East Room ceremony on Monday, President Obama described Kagan "as one of the nation's foremost legal minds,"...

May 10, 2010 at 9:55 AM EST  |   The end is near... After Minnesota--Minneapolis and Hibbing--I was back on the route of the Super Chief, spending three days each in Albuquerque and Los Angeles. Both cities have energetic booksellers as well as public television stations that are propelled...

May 10, 2010 at 9:09 AM EST  |   Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Monday is expected to nominate...

May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM EST  |   The Associated Press and major news networks reported late Sunday that President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. The AP cited an unnamed person familiar with the decision....

May 9, 2010 at 12:37 PM EST  |   Embed Code: View ticker with live video feed. Last updated 11 a.m. ET on May 27. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month's oil rig explosion. What we do...

May 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM EST  |   Correspondent Tom Bearden has been reporting from Louisiana and Alabama on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown. There's a new feature on the local TV weather forecast in Mobile, Ala.: the...

May 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM EST  |   Regular NewsHour analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by the Rundown after their appearance on Friday's program. With plenty happening in Washington and beyond this week, we discussed how the chances for passage on climate legislation are shifting and...

May 7, 2010 at 4:47 PM EST  |   ECONOMY ADDS JOBS IN APRIL | Employers added 290,000 jobs last month, marking the biggest hiring increase in four years. Kwame Holman reports. Then, Jeffrey Brown talks to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com and Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and...

May 7, 2010 at 3:46 PM EST  |   Modern humans and Neanderthals are more closely connected in the gene pool than expected, according to new research. The results, published in the journal Science on Friday, show that Neanderthals and humans are "incredibly similar" when comparing proteins encoded by...

May 7, 2010 at 11:07 AM EST  |   It felt as if everyone was rushing to the ramparts this week. From Times Square to the Gulf Coast to Greece and Wall Street, the world has seemed positively out of breath. Part of the reason, of course, is the...

May 7, 2010 at 8:30 AM EST  |   Employers added 290,000 jobs in April -- the biggest gain in four years -- but the nation's unemployment rate ticked up as thousands of Americans rejoined the labor force. The April gain topped the expectations of most analysts and followed...

May 7, 2010 at 1:20 AM EST  |   Conservatives' David Cameron and his wife Samantha. Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AFP/Getty Images Updated 6:50 a.m. The Conservatives secured more seats than the ruling Labor party in the United Kingdom's closely fought elections, results showed Friday, but not enough to...

May 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM EST  |   Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Photo by Mohammed Sawaf/AFP/Getty Images Since March 7 elections handed the ruling government a narrow defeat, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced a new Shiite coalition that gives it more seats than the secular...

May 6, 2010 at 5:44 PM EST  |   GREECE APPROVES AUSTERITY PLAN | Jeffrey Brown reports on Wall Street's reaction to continued instability in Greece. Police in Athens used tear gas to control new protests, sparked as lawmakers approved cost-cutting measures. Judy Woodruff gets updates from Susie Gharib...

May 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM EST  |   U.S. markets plunged Thursday afternoon amid fears over the Greek debt crisis and a possible trading glitch involving shares of Procter & Gamble. The volatile afternoon left market watchers struggling to make sense of the wild day on Wall Street....

May 6, 2010 at 3:57 PM EST  |   For anyone visiting my Making Sen$e page Thursday to find out why markets are quaking, allow me to repeat the phrase that ought to be the motto for this page, so often have I used it: Credit comes from...

May 6, 2010 at 11:44 AM EST  |   In a year when politicians and analysts want a grasp on what, by most accounts, is a volatile electorate, this past Tuesday's primaries in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina provided a chance to read the tea leaves. Alas, those looking...

May 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM EST  |   Dante Chinni wrote a new post this week as part of the Patchwork Nation project on the composition of tea parties around the country and the diverse set of issues that do -- or do not -- bring them together....

May 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM EST  |   Evidence being gathered by investigators increasingly suggests that Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the Times Square bomb plot, held ties to the Pakistani Taliban, according to reports out Thursday. Investigators have also discovered that in the days before Saturday's failed...

May 5, 2010 at 4:34 PM EST  |   SECURITY CONCERNS AFTER NY BOMBING ATTEMPT | Following the arrest of a man accused of trying to detonate a bomb in New York City's Times Square, Jeffrey Brown talks to Guardian reporter Declan Walsh in Pakistan and Denis McDonough, chief...

May 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM EST  |   Conservatives' David Cameron campaigning in Britain. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Britain's major party leaders spent the final hours leading up to Thursday's general elections campaigning for the support of an estimated 4 million undecided voters. Gordon Brown of...

May 5, 2010 at 2:13 PM EST  |   After weeks of negotiations, Sens. Chris Dodd and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) reached a bipartisan agreement Tuesday that would put an end to taxpayer bailouts of large, systemically important financial firms. A proposed $50 billion fund that would have been...

May 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM EST  |   The Fort Jackson bird rescue facility near Venice, La., got its second patient on Monday -- an oil-soaked Louisiana brown pelican. The gawky bird was picked up on Storm Island, but the folks who are standing by to clean...

May 5, 2010 at 11:52 AM EST  |   Voters in Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina selected candidates in party primaries for three contested Senate seats Tuesday - the first multistate primary day in this year's midterm elections. Tuesday's races were a chance to see if primary voters were...

May 5, 2010 at 9:08 AM EST  |   A Pakistani policeman guards the locked residence of Faisal Shahzad in Peshawar on Wednesday. Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images. One day after the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old U.S. citizen charged with trying to detonate a car bomb...

May 4, 2010 at 7:34 PM EST  |   As his road trip across the country continues, Jim Lehrer checked in with us from Albuquerque. He recently managed to check out the Greyhound Museum in Hibbing, Minn., while in Minneapolis for a speaking engagement. Jim tells us one of...

May 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM EST  |   NYC BOMBING SUSPECT IN CUSTODY | A Pakistani-American man has been charged with acts of terrorism across international lines in the foiled bomb plot in New York City's Times Square over the weekend. Jeffrey Brown talks to Newsweek reporter Mark...

May 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico White House reporter Josh Gerstein stopped by the Rundown Tuesday to talk about his coverage of the late Monday arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the attempted bombing in Times Square. Shahzad was removed...

May 4, 2010 at 2:33 PM EST  |   Protesters listen to speeches inside encampment in Bangkok. Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images Thailand's Red Shirt protesters on Tuesday cautiously welcomed the government's proposal to hold early elections on Nov. 14 in exchange for the protesters leaving their...

May 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM EST  |   We spoke with CNET Executive Editor Molly Wood on "NewsHour Plus" back when the iPad was unveiled following months of speculation. We brought her back to chat about the rollout of the 3G iPad and whether that would slow down...

May 4, 2010 at 11:50 AM EST  |   A sign at an animal medical center in Bienville, Miss., reads "Pray for our Gulf" as people continue to monitor the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. So how bad will the...

May 4, 2010 at 8:52 AM EST  |   A New York City police officer stands watch Monday night in Times Square. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Federal agents have arrested a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan in connection to the failed attempt last weekend to detonate a...

May 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM EST  |   GULF OIL CLEANUP | BP said it will pay to clean up the oil slick still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Judy Woodruff gets the latest update on the crisis from correspondent Tom Bearden in Louisiana. POLITICAL FUTURE OF...

May 3, 2010 at 2:17 PM EST  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Updated 5:15 p.m. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking Monday at a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, called for a world free of nuclear weapons. U.S. Secretary of...

May 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM EST  |   As analysts try to gauge the strength and meaning of the tea party movement there are two dominant questions: How much of the electorate do the disparate groups speak for and what is their primary objective? Those are difficult questions...

May 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM EST  |   Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown. There's a new billboard in Buras, La. A personal injury lawyer is soliciting clients injured by...

May 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM EST  |   Eddie Soto, working with Resolve Marine Group, carries oil containment booms Sunday to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Sunday called the growing oil spill in the Gulf...

May 2, 2010 at 8:52 AM EST  |   Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown. Three dozen cameras, 50 reporters and one oil-soaked bird. An organization called Tri-State Bird Rescue and...

May 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM EST  |   Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown on Saturday. The weather isn't cooperating. For several days after BP's leased oil rig exploded and...