November 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM EST  |   A European Union flag and Greek national flag fly near the Parthenon temple; Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/Bloomberg via Getty Images There have been Rick Perry's "What's number three?" gaffe and the allegations against Herman Cain. But the biggest story...

November 30, 2011 at 4:31 PM EST  |   Photo by Elizabeth Shell. Recently, Puppet Underground and Occupy DC hosted a 'Roving Kabaret' of various theatrical troupes that support the...

November 30, 2011 at 1:43 PM EST  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Wednesday. Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Myo Myint is on the left. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Myanmar's journey from isolation advanced Wednesday with the arrival of U.S. Secretary of...

November 30, 2011 at 12:41 PM EST  |   HIV testing. Photo by UNICEF. It's been a difficult year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest funding mechanism for programs providing prevention and treatment for the diseases around the world. Several big donors...

November 30, 2011 at 8:00 AM EST  |   C. elegans worms, pictured above, are a model organism for studying cell behavior in space. Photo by Flickr via snickclunk. In December 2006, the Discovery space shuttle launched into orbit carrying a seven-member crew, its first Scandinavian astronaut and...

November 30, 2011 at 7:03 AM EST  |   A Fox5 website shows Ginger White, who claims to have had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain. The GOP presidential candidate has denied the accusation. Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images. A day after an Atlanta woman named Ginger White...

November 29, 2011 at 6:26 PM EST  |   Image by Fusion via Getty Images. Making Sen$e reporter/producer Elizabeth Shell files most of this post on Tuesday's Case-Shiller housing index. The punchline: housing prices declined in September -- not a good sign. Here's her summary of the data...

November 29, 2011 at 3:52 PM EST  |   Ballot counting begins in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images. Despite some rumors of political parties trying to entice votes through payments and other means, a second day of voting in Egypt came...

November 29, 2011 at 7:55 AM EST  |   The Iowa caucuses may be five weeks away, but the way that Democrats and Mitt Romney's campaign clashed on Monday, it seemed as if the general election were around the corner. The brouhaha began with the release of a...

November 28, 2011 at 5:23 PM EST  |   View a slide show of Congo's Election Day. Updated Dec. 9: Results from Congo's election commission show President Joseph Kabila won. Original Story: Millions of Congolese went to the polls Monday to vote on a new president and Parliament....

November 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM EST  |   Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Godwin Ohiwerei Question: Are we addicted to war? How come we never actually bother...

November 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM EST  |   Photo by Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images. A clinical trial testing a microbicide gel once hailed as a highly promising new approach to HIV prevention is being shut down early because of poor results. The National Institutes of Health announced Friday...

November 28, 2011 at 2:05 PM EST  |   File photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Updated 2:45 p.m. ET| Longtime Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., announced Monday he will not seek re-election in 2012, ending a career that stretched more than three decades fighting for liberal causes. Frank revealed...

November 28, 2011 at 8:02 AM EST  |   Republican presidential hopeful and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista sign books Friday after speaking at a Hilton Hotel in Naples, Fla. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. By picking up a coveted newspaper endorsement over the...

November 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM EST  |   Update November 26| The Mars Science Laboratory launched into space at 10 am on Saturday, beginning its nine-month, 354-million-mile journey to Mars. Upon arrival, the one-ton spacecraft will hurl through the Mars atmosphere and deploy a...

November 25, 2011 at 3:05 PM EST  |   People receive tickets to enter the courtroom in Cambodia. Photo by Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images. In recent years, more Cambodians -- both young and old -- have been confronting the mass killings of the 1970s committed by the Khmer...

November 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM EST  |   The facts that paint a bleak, dark, down-and-out Motor City are not scarce. Whether it is the unemployment, or foreclosures, or crime, Detroit finds itself on lists like Forbes' 20 most miserable cities. But in my travels, it ranks only...

November 25, 2011 at 1:56 PM EST  |   Protester painted in the colors of Egypt's flag joins thousands of other demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Egypt's election scene, complete with campaign ads on TV and posters and billboards plastered around...

November 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM EST  |   Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday query: Name: Jack McBroom Question: My first mortgage in 1970 was at a...

November 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM EST  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

November 25, 2011 at 10:32 AM EST  |   Different costs for the same procedure in 2009. Figures from the OECD. Staying healthy in the United States is expensive. In fact, in 2009, the average annual cost of health care was $7,960 per person -- two and a...

November 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM EST  |   A girl sits atop her father's shoulders in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images. After five days of heated -- and sometimes deadly-- confrontations with police this week, protesters and Egyptian authorities have called a truce in...

November 24, 2011 at 2:38 PM EST  |   Trader at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany. Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images. The U.S. markets lie as still today as the birds on America's platters, but the same cannot be said for fluttering Europe, or anywhere else in...

November 24, 2011 at 11:38 AM EST  |   This week we look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. View the story "Education roundup - Nov. 21, 2011" on Storify]...

November 24, 2011 at 11:31 AM EST  |   Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images A meal shared by Pilgrims and Native Americans might get most of the credit for the creation of Thanksgiving, but it was President Abraham Lincoln who officially proclaimed the last Thursday in November a...

November 24, 2011 at 11:12 AM EST  |   View a slide show of the troops' final weeks in Iraq. After a nearly nine-year war, all but a handful of U.S. forces will be leaving Iraq by the end of this year. As they close up shop, we...

November 23, 2011 at 5:53 PM EST  |   An independent report released Wednesday said Bahraini security forces used "excessive force" to muffle protesters seeking a change in government last spring. The report, commissioned by the Bahraini government, was a first for the island kingdom and marks an opportunity...

November 23, 2011 at 4:12 PM EST  |   Paul Solman: Today's Making Sen$e post comes courtesy of the page's web chief, Elizabeth Shell. A majority of first-time working mothers are now receiving paid maternity leave -- a first since the government started tracking the data in the...

November 23, 2011 at 3:51 PM EST  |   Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Dr. Donald Berwick, the man who has been both praised and reviled as the country's Medicare chief, will step down on Dec. 2. The White House announced that Marilyn Tavenner, Berwick's principal...

November 23, 2011 at 1:18 PM EST  |   Photo by Flickr user Katie Tower. It's the kind of conversation that sticks with you -- I was talking to a young father who sells shoes on a patch of public park in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. He...

November 22, 2011 at 6:31 PM EST  |   Depending on where you live, the word startup has different connotations. For some, it means embarking on an adventure filled with unknown risk and ending in likely peril; for others, like those in our story on Tuesday's NewsHour broadcast, it's...

November 22, 2011 at 2:07 PM EST  |   Watch A Perfect Terrorist Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. The bloody three-day siege in Mumbai in 2008 was one of the most high-profile terrorist attacks since 9/11. American David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the attack, is...

November 22, 2011 at 12:32 PM EST  |   I've been saying the following to friends and colleagues for months now: In all my many years as a business and economics reporter, I have never seen a greater cognitive dissonance than in the current coverage of the U.S....

November 22, 2011 at 12:11 PM EST  |   Isabella and her twin sister Ha were reunited this year. When the NewsHour's global health team first met 13-year-old Isabella Solimene, she shared a memorable story of being separated from her twin sister as a baby in Vietnam....

November 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM EST  |   Science panel: Get Ready for Extreme Weather A special report issued on Friday from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change focused on heat waves, floods, droughts, storms and other extreme weather events resulting from climate change. This was...

November 22, 2011 at 10:32 AM EST  |   Spain's leader of the opposition conservative Popular Party Mariano Rajoy. Photo by Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images. Spain's conservative Popular Party and its leader Mariano Rajoy -- the victors in last weekend's parliamentary elections -- now have the difficult job of...

November 21, 2011 at 5:30 PM EST  |   In 2010, your tweets helped debunk fears that Thanksgiving travel would be a nightmare due to stricter airport security measures and 'opt-out' protests. This year, we want to hear again first-hand about your experience flying during one of the...

November 21, 2011 at 5:26 PM EST  |   Reporters participating in GlobalPost and Open Hands Initiative program. Unless unrest in Cairo delays them, Egypt's military leaders plan to hold parliamentary elections starting Nov. 28 to forge ahead on a planned transition to democracy following the ouster of...

November 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM EST  |   The bipartisan co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction announced late Monday that the group had failed to reach an agreement. "We are deeply disappointed that we have been unable to come to a bipartisan deficit reduction...

November 21, 2011 at 4:19 PM EST  |   Photo by Getty Images At the start of this Thanksgiving week, Washington is gridlocked in all the expected places: the beltway, grocery aisles and -- most of all -- in Congress. Late Monday afternoon, the panel charged with cutting...

November 21, 2011 at 2:24 PM EST  |   Egyptian protesters run for cover during clashes with riot police in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images. For a third straight day in Egypt's capital Cairo, police tried to beat back protesters who were flinging...

November 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM EST  |   Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and readers on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Aime Casavant Question: How does raising or lowering taxes affect the economy? What difference does...

November 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM EST  |   Mary Hermes of the University of Minnesota, Duluth is a tribal language educator whose research focuses on preserving endangered languages like the Great Lakes region's Ojibwe. Her team records, translates, transcribes and annotates conversations through the use of video...

November 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM EST  |   Two days before its Nov. 23 deadline, the congressional supercommittee tasked with creating a plan that would cut $1.2 trillion in the federal budget appears headed for failure. Though no announcement has been made, members of the 12-member, bipartisan committee...

November 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM EST  |   "Bob Frank and P.J. O'Rourke AGREE," Paul Solman tweeted recently, referring to the political differences of liberal economist Frank and conservative satirist O'Rourke. "Build the damn bridges. Now." Frank and O'Rourke recently partnered to author an opinion piece on...

November 18, 2011 at 5:07 PM EST  |   Leader of the Popular party Mariano Rajoy at a campaign rally in Sevilla, Spain, on Thursday. Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images. The financial storm sweeping across Europe is about to claim another victim -- the Socialist government of Spain....

November 18, 2011 at 4:45 PM EST  |   President Obama and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at ASEAN summit. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. The former top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar has called the latest overture to that isolated nation a "historic opportunity." But a top human...

November 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM EST  |   South Sudanese wait to be transported on a train from Khartoum to South Sudan. Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images. A group of refugees in South Sudan must pick up and leave what they thought was a safe haven after...

November 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM EST  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

November 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM EST  |   Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration officially pulled the plug on its approval for the use of the drug Avastin in breast cancer treatment. There's simply no proof that the drug saves lives, FDA...

November 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM EST  |   Not many people can boast of having traveled to Providence, R.I., Cleveland, Newark, Madison, Wis., St. Louis and Venice, Italy, within little more than a month. In every instance -- including the Italian trip, where I got to hang out...

November 18, 2011 at 8:08 AM EST  |   Former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Photo by Mark Hirsch/Getty Images. When Newt Gingrich was preparing to launch a run for the White House earlier this year, part of the delay was reportedly his need to unwind the financial entanglements...

November 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM EST  |   Just a quick note on a story we're working on about the link between one's political beliefs, attitudes towards inequality, and personal happiness. Studies by the Pew Research Center and the General Social Survey, among others, have shown that...

November 17, 2011 at 5:25 PM EST  |   Somali boys fetch water from a puddle in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images. The heavy rains soaking the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya -- the largest in the world -- would normally...

November 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM EST  |   In Mala Radhakrishnan's world, where oxygen and palladium atoms clamor to get into the most sought-after beaker and tortured carbon atoms become boron swans, chemistry is rife with mystery, jealousy and, yes, romance. Radhakrishnan, assistant professor...

November 17, 2011 at 3:10 PM EST  |   Job seekers and employers meet in Ontario, Calif.; file photo by David McNew/Getty Images Over the last four years, scanning the nation's business headlines has become something best done with a pack of Tums at the ready. From housing...

November 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM EST  |   Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. This post has been updated. Somewhat lost in the war of words over health care reform is a stepchild of the debate: dental care. A bad situation is getting worse. Teeth are crucial. When...

November 17, 2011 at 1:04 PM EST  |   Energy Secretary Steven Chu prepares to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 16, 2011. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel Thursday that politics did not...

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November 17, 2011 at 11:28 AM EST  |   Wilson Ramos talks to reporters after his release. Photo by Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images. The ordeal of Wilson Ramos, a Washington Nationals catcher who was kidnapped and then rescued in Venezuela last week, put a new spotlight on the Latin...

November 17, 2011 at 9:07 AM EST  |   Photo from the film "Waste Land," Artwork Courtesy of Vik Muniz Studio. On Thursday's NewsHour, we'll feature an excerpt of the film "Waste Land," which follows renowned artist Vik Muñiz as he journeys back to his native Brazil to...

November 17, 2011 at 8:10 AM EST  |   Lawmakers will ask Energy Secretary Steven Chu about the $535 million federal loan received by solar company Solyndra before it went bankrupt and laid off its workers. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Energy Secretary Steven Chu appears set to...

November 16, 2011 at 6:31 PM EST  |   The lack of access to dental care is a problem that affects millions of Americans, Betty Ann Bowser and the NewsHour's health team are reporting in a series this week. Panelists from the American Dental Association, Alaska's Dental Health Aide...

November 16, 2011 at 5:19 PM EST  |   As much as I love living and working in Washington, D.C., I've always believed you can't really know how the country's doing unless you spend time with people who don't live here. Right now, we in the national capital region...

November 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM EST  |   A "quick trip" to the dentist usually means a one-hour flight across southern Alaska for Eva Malvich. But that pales in comparison to the other sacrifices she's made to get some relief from the pounding pain...

November 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM EST  |   Every five years Congress passes a bundle of legislation related to food and agriculture, the last of which was passed in 2008. The bill allocates hundreds of billions of dollars for everything from crop subsidies and forest protection to nutrition...

November 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM EST  |   Residents of Mandalay, Myanmar, gather outside a religious building on Tuesday to listen to monks, who are protesting for the release of all political prisoners. Photo by AFPSTR/AFP/Getty Images. Myanmar's repressive regime is showing signs of relaxing restrictions not...

November 16, 2011 at 2:06 PM EST  |   Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Wednesday's query is answered first by Paul, and further down by Yoram Bauman, our frequent economist contributor from China:...

November 16, 2011 at 8:08 AM EST  |   Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chair of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, was not optimistic of a deal on Tuesday. Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. After another day of private meetings and negotiations on Capitol Hill, the...

November 15, 2011 at 5:14 PM EST  |   Rev. Ann Kantsfield faces off with NYPD at the Canal Street site. What began as the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York nearly two months ago has now spread to cities across the United States. Here...

November 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM EST  |   Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: Eriks Blaschka Question: My smart colleague told me that he would be happy to "never"...

November 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM EST  |   Women surveying in North East Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of The Asia Foundation. In the American coverage of the Afghan war -- firefights, bombings, political wrangling and U.S. casualties -- the sentiments of ordinary Afghans often get lost. But...

November 15, 2011 at 1:42 PM EST  |   MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Marling del Socorro Valverdi balances a restless baby on her hip as she tries to attach yards of red and green crepe paper to a drab newsprint pinata shell. In the Valverdi family, pinata sales equal...

November 15, 2011 at 12:10 PM EST  |   In its ancient history, the moon had a magnetic field that may have lasted more than a billion years. Photo by NASA. Update: 7 pm ET, Nov 15| Lunar rocks collected during Apollo moon missions revealed a mysterious truth...

November 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM EST  |   A man confronts a New York Police Department officer a few blocks from Zuccotti Park as New York City officials clear the Occupy Wall Street protesters from the park early Tuesday. Photo by Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images. New York City...

November 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM EST  |   It was Rick Perry's "oops" moment in last week's Republican presidential debate in Michigan that drew attention away from Herman Cain and the sexual harassment allegations that have engulfed his campaign. Monday, Cain let Perry off the hook, stepping...

November 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM EST  |   Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports in Toksook Bay, Alaska. Somehow sesame chicken is never going to be quite the same ... and it's all because of Alaska. Trust me. Our health unit recently went there to do a...

November 14, 2011 at 3:40 PM EST  |   Video: Sheila Bair and Paul Solman talk about how simple math and financial education, like the savings lessons in her children's book 'Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock,' might have helped avert the financial crash. Sheila...

November 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM EST  |   The world's biggest dam removal project -- and the second-largest environmental restoration project in U.S. history -- is in progress on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The Elwha Dam and the Glines Canyon Dam blocking...

November 14, 2011 at 1:36 PM EST  |   GRUNDY, Va. -- It felt like a sustained jackhammer to the jaw. A pounding, pulsing dental pain that started as a dull ache in some rotten teeth and eventually spread to Bobby Horn's entire mouth. "It...

November 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM EST  |   A worker cleans and lubricates the head of a hydraulic fracturing machine at Southwestern Energy Co.'s natural gas production site at the Marcellus Shale formation in Camptown, Pa. Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images. The biggest earthquake ever recorded...

November 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM EST  |   The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law. As Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal described in a post last week, the court was asked to consider five key issues...

November 14, 2011 at 10:43 AM EST  |   Updated, Nov. 14 The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law on four key points. Original Post, Nov. 10 The Supreme Court now has six petitions asking the justices to review...

November 14, 2011 at 8:53 AM EST  |   A protester pleads with police during a demonstration near the Occupy Portland encampment November 13, 2011 in Portland, Ore. Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images. Police arrested more than 50 Occupy protesters in Portland while clearing out an encampment in...

November 14, 2011 at 7:44 AM EST  |   The Joint Deficit Reduction Committee is facing a Nov. 23 deadline to reduce deficits by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Time is running out for the bipartisan Congressional supercommittee charged with...

November 11, 2011 at 5:10 PM EST  |   A new report from the Commonwealth Fund painted a pretty dismal picture of the American health care industry this week. But if you don't have time to read the whole thing, these four graphics -- based on a poll of...

November 11, 2011 at 4:37 PM EST  |   Soldiers return home to New York City, ca. 1919. Updated Nov. 11, 2011: Because their casualties from World War I so overwhelm those suffered by U.S. forces in their 20 months in the conflict, many European nations...

November 11, 2011 at 2:39 PM EST  |   Eight-month-old Kesler is one of those infectiously happy babies who giggles at everything, even when his mother is scolding him for being too loud. Kesler lives with his mother, Delma Marina Sala, in a one-room, tin-roofed home outside of...

November 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM EST  |   A homeless U.S. military veteran stands in line for free winter clothing at a 'Stand Down' event hosted by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Organizers say the homeless veteran population has surged in recent years along with the high...

November 11, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   Tribewanted-Sierra Leone, Africa - Episode 1 from Martha Skolnik on Vimeo. Friday is 11/11/11, and the minds behind the documentary and online video archive known as "One Day on Earth" are hoping thousands of people around the world will film...

November 11, 2011 at 10:26 AM EST  |   Newly appointed prime minister Lucas Papademos leaves the Greek Presidential palace in Athens on November 10, 2011. Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images. Italy's senate passed a bill to usher in a series of austerity measures in an attempt to...

November 11, 2011 at 10:19 AM EST  |   Soldiers from Ft. Lee, Virginia help mark Veterans Day ceremonies at the World War II Memorial November 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. President Obama praised the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and impending handover in Afghanistan at...

November 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM EST  |   Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent Thursday working feverishly to turn the corner on his much maligned brain freeze in Wednesday night's debate. He did no fewer than seven nationally televised interviews, additional radio interviews and ended the day at...

November 10, 2011 at 5:54 PM EST  |   While shooting, the NewsHour and Safecast crew encounter an abandoned dog. Photo by Sean Bonner of Safecast.org. Update: 4 pm ET, Nov 11| At the tail end of Miles O'Brien's latest NewsHour report on radiation in Japan, a golden...

November 10, 2011 at 4:51 PM EST  |   The number one killer of young children around the world isn't malaria, measles or HIV. It's pneumonia, and each year more children die from the lung infection than from those three, much higher-profile diseases combined. A global push to bring...

November 10, 2011 at 4:09 PM EST  |   "We didn't think we had changed. We thought we were back from war and we were good to go," says 24-year-old combat veteran Dominic Fredianelli. Fredianelli is one of a tight-knit group of childhood friends from Michigan's Upper Peninsula who...

November 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM EST  |   Rick Perry did Herman Cain a favor in the Michigan GOP debate. By failing to remember the name of the third federal agency he intended to shut down if elected president, he claimed unflattering next-day headlines that might have...

November 10, 2011 at 3:28 PM EST  |   In a rare showing of bipartisanship in the Senate, a small portion of President Obama's jobs bill designed to help military veterans find employment passed by a vote of 94 to 1 Thursday. Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C. was the only...

November 10, 2011 at 3:05 PM EST  |   A week after Europe's economic woes dominated the G20 summit in France, a different collection of world leaders meet in Hawaii, where they hope to strengthen ties among Asia and the Pacific region's fast-growing markets, from China to Chile....

November 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM EST  |   Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I would really like to...

November 10, 2011 at 10:54 AM EST  |   We officially launch a new feature today we're calling "Science Thursday." Each week, we'll feature an online-exclusive multimedia piece on a topic in the world of science and technology. Here's what's up first. On Thursday's NewsHour,...

November 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM EST  |   On Thursday's NewsHour, we'll feature an excerpt of the film "We Still Live Here," which tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag Indian language, the first time a language with no native speakers has been revived in this...

November 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM EST  |   GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry didn't do himself any favors during Wednesday night's debate. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. You know you didn't have a good night as a presidential candidate if you need to get up early to...

November 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM EST  |   11:30 a.m. ET | Tom Bradley, a 33-year veteran of the Nittany Lions staff who was named as interim head coach, said Thursday morning in a new conference that he takes the helm from Paterno with "very mixed emotions." He...

November 9, 2011 at 4:33 PM EST  |   Liberians cast their ballots in Tuesday's presidential runoff. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. Many Liberians and their friends in the West had hoped the country, once plagued by civil war, was continuing its march to democracy. But the presidential...

November 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM EST  |   An economic analysis of a local, family-run bread bakery is the topic of the latest dispatch from Yoram Bauman, our temporary economist-in-residence in China. Using his improving (but still a bit limited) language skills and a...

November 9, 2011 at 11:00 AM EST  |   Joe Paterno receives a plaque celebrating his 409th career win on Oct. 29, 2011 at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania. Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images. Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, in the middle of his...

November 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   Woman and child in malnutrition ward of hospital in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. Photo by Nicole See. DOLO ADO, Ethiopia | The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other...

November 9, 2011 at 8:53 AM EST  |   Ohio voters repealed Senate Bill 5. Photo by wisaflcio via Flickr. Two high-profile ballot measures headlined this year's off-year elections, and both were resoundingly defeated Tuesday. In Ohio, voters overwhelmingly turned back Senate Bill 5, which sought to restrict...

November 9, 2011 at 8:27 AM EST  |   Roberto Maroni, Italy's interior minister, left, speaks with Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, during a voting session on last year's budget report inside the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday. Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images....

November 8, 2011 at 5:30 PM EST  |   Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain waits to speak at a press conference November 8, 2011 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images. Embattled GOP candidate Herman Cain rejected new claims that he has sexually harassed women -- one...

November 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM EST  |   Marijuana plants sit on a rack at the Berkeley Patients Group March 25, 2010 in Berkeley, California. The industry of growing and distributing marijuana is explored in "The Republic of Cannabis" -- a special...

November 8, 2011 at 2:54 PM EST  |   Protesters in Iran mark the anniversary of the Nov. 4, 1979, storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by burning a mock "wanted" poster of President Obama. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images. In the days after the U.S. Embassy...

November 8, 2011 at 2:40 PM EST  |   We're starting a new feature on the Rundown - a look at what's happening in education as seen through Twitter, video and other digital destinations....

November 8, 2011 at 10:24 AM EST  |   We met dental health aide therapist student Jana Schuerch at the Yuut Elitnaurviat Dental Training Clinic in Bethel, Alaska. Schuerch, 28, lights up when she tells us about her fiancé, Charlie, and their three young children living in Nome --...

November 8, 2011 at 10:06 AM EST  |   A national flag of Greece flies outside the Greek stock exchange in Athens. Photo by Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg via Getty Images. In Greece last summer for the NewsHour, we interviewed a plain-spoken, candid economist named Manos Matsaganis. As the Parthenon...

November 8, 2011 at 9:21 AM EST  |   This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained at 2:45 pm ET on Nov. 7 when the space rock was 860,000 miles from Earth. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech. As folks on the East Coast are feeding the dog, cooking...

November 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM EST  |   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the United Nations 2010 High-level Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at U.N. headquarters May 3, 2010. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. Updated 3:25 p.m....

November 8, 2011 at 8:45 AM EST  |   A sign in favor of Initiative 26 is displayed near the capitol building in Jackson, Miss. Voters will decide Tuesday whether the state's constitution will recognize a fertilized human egg as a person. Photo by Esme E. Deprez/Bloomberg via...

November 7, 2011 at 5:10 PM EST  |   Photo of Guatemalan president-elect Otto Perez Molina by Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images. A high murder rate and drug gang violence drove Guatemalans to vote Sunday for a former military official who has vowed to put the army back on the...

November 7, 2011 at 4:41 PM EST  |   Fresh produce is viewed at the Central Park United Methodist Church weekly food pantry on Oct.19, 2011 in Reading, Pennsylvania. The church feeds thousands of needy Reading residents monthly and relies on donations and volunteers to keep its increasingly...

November 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM EST  |   On a regular basis, reporter Jenny Marder tackles a question in science and technology news. It's a feature we call "Just Ask." Today our topic is DNA. What is noncoding DNA, and why do we need it? In 1953,...

November 7, 2011 at 3:52 PM EST  |   A year ago July, we did a story on "private equity" featuring journalist Josh Kosman, who'd written a book, "The Buyout of America." In it, Kosman blamed private equity firms for buying companies with borrowed money,...

November 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM EST  |   Sharon Bialek speaks with lawyer Gloria Allred at her side during a news conference in New York on Monday. Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. Sharon Bialek, who sought GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's help in 1997 when...

November 7, 2011 at 3:18 PM EST  |   Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Photo by Elmer Martinez/AFP/Getty Images. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega looks poised to win a landslide victory to a third term in office after orchestrating changes to the constitution to allow him the chance to stay...

November 7, 2011 at 8:45 AM EST  |   A new poll shows GOP voters believe Mitt Romney is the candidate most likely to beat President Obama. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Mitt Romney is clearly the man to beat for the GOP presidential nomination, and new ABC/Washington...

November 7, 2011 at 8:23 AM EST  |   George Papandreou, Greece's prime minister, left, meets with Karolos Papoulias, Greece's president, center, and Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's main opposition New Democracy party, in Athens, Greece, on Nov. 6, 2011. Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Greek...

November 4, 2011 at 6:15 PM EST  |   Now that baseball season is over, where will syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks spend their leisure hours? They'll likely be back to the heavy lifting of political news. In our "sport of politics" section...

November 4, 2011 at 5:19 PM EST  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

November 4, 2011 at 4:17 PM EST  |   More than 500 days of isolation with five other guys ... could you do it? That is what one Chinese man, two European and three Russian men have been through to simulate what humans might encounter if they attempted...

November 4, 2011 at 4:05 PM EST  |   In a confident but cautious pitch to reporters Friday at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel said his party has a "gentle breeze at our backs" as they try to win 25 seats from...

November 4, 2011 at 2:11 PM EST  |   When former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walked into our interview at her publisher's office in New York this week, she was as composed as ever -- happy to be out of Washington and now free to tell her...

November 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM EST  |   As river dams age, communities wrestle with how to how to repair and remove them, and a lack of scientific understanding on the subject doesn't help. How does dam removal affect river systems? Could it cause catastrophic flooding? And...

November 4, 2011 at 11:13 AM EST  |   Imagine if diabetes could be peeled apart -- if a doctor could look at test results and instantly see the genetic and environmental factors that triggered and fueled the disease. Looking at a patient's medical history and genomic information, it...

November 4, 2011 at 10:15 AM EST  |   Khalifah Varnado reads a help wanted post card during the Arizona Workforce Connection Career Expo at the Arizona State Fair Grounds in Phoenix, Ariz. Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images. As expected, unemployment in the U.S. was little changed in...

November 4, 2011 at 8:37 AM EST  |   People wait in line for a job fair in New York City last month. Photo by Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. President Obama's presence at the G20 in France and his work there with European partners to help bring...

November 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM EST  |   As Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain finds himself immersed in allegations of sexual harassment, the government of Greece nears collapse and 14 million Americans are out of work, it's business as usual on the Senate floor with leaders of both...

November 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM EST  |   Gwen Ifill spoke with with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week about her new memoir, titled "No Higher Honor." In it, Rice looks back at the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in...

November 3, 2011 at 3:53 PM EST  |   Watch a preview of the NewsHour's two upcoming pieces from Nicaragua below, and read Ray Suarez's reflections on the political situation in the country. Friday on the NewsHour, Ray looks at what's at stake in the upcoming Nicaraguan elections, and...

November 3, 2011 at 2:44 PM EST  |   French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama meet before the start of the G20 meeting in Cannes, France. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure - Pool/Getty Images. World leaders from the Group of 20 are meeting Thursday and...

November 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM EST  |   In NOVA's latest four-part series, physicist Brian Greene covers an astonishing swath of material in the world of physics: quantum mechanics, general relativity, light speed and gravity and the search for elusive subatomic particles. The series...

November 3, 2011 at 1:00 PM EST  |   Mitt Romney greets volunteers; photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The 2012 primary contests have not yet begun, but one trend has emerged in the early stages of the campaign. In national polls, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sits firmly...

November 3, 2011 at 10:09 AM EST  |   1 p.m. ET | Papandreou abandoned the referendum plan but has also rejected calls for his resignation in lieu of asking opposition members to participate in bailout talks. He said forcing elections would lead to dire consequences for Greece, forcing...

November 3, 2011 at 9:46 AM EST  |   Image courtesy of Life Sentence Films. On Thursday's NewsHour, we will feature an excerpt of the film "Crime After Crime", which traces the legal battle to free Deborah Peagler from a California prison 20 years after she was connected...

November 3, 2011 at 8:56 AM EST  |   Herman Cain is questioned by reporters Wednesday about sexual harassment allegations. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call. Herman Cain has stopped talking about the sexual harassment allegations against him. It's a new strategy for the embattled GOP contender who...

November 2, 2011 at 5:13 PM EST  |   An auto-disable syringe is used to vaccinate a child in Kenya. Photo by UNICEF/Siegfried Modola. A nurse injects a patient with a syringe of antibiotics, reloads and moves on to the next patient in line. The syringe isn't sterilized, the...

November 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM EST  |   The Democratic Republic of Congo, with its ongoing violent struggle over natural resources, and Norway, with its $255 billion GDP, find themselves on opposite ends of the spectrum in the U.N. Development Program's annual rankings released Wednesday. The 2011...

November 2, 2011 at 11:43 AM EST  |   Doctors prescribed enough pain medication last year to partially numb every American adult around-the-clock for a month. So much of the stuff is now being handed out that lethal overdoses tripled in the past decade, according to a new report...

November 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM EST  |   Last week's clashes between police and protesters have brought national attention to the Occupy movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. On Wednesday, protesters at Occupy Oakland called for a General Strike. Many local Bay Area unions have expressed support...

November 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM EST  |   Photo of Occupy Wall Street by Getty Images. While shooting at the end of day recently at Zuccotti Park, I was heckled twice while "re-asking" several questions. That is, with only one camera, it's impossible to create a dialogue...

November 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM EST  |   Herman Cain addresses the accusations of sexual harassment against him at the National Press Club on Monday. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. From the moment Politico broke the Herman Cain story on Sunday evening, it seemed inevitable that more...

November 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM EST  |   Photo of Greek Parliament in Athens by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images. Greece's cabinet threw its support behind embattled Prime Minister George Papandreou's call for a referendum on a massive European bailout plan. Papandreou's referendum shocked European leaders, coming on the...

November 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM EST  |   Each week, Paul Solman gets dozens of questions from the audience, ranging from whether one should refinance a mortgage, if Stephen Colbert is coming after Paul's job to where he buys his signature hats. Generally, we post a few of...

November 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM EST  |   Photo by Flicker user Wendy McCormac. You would think the state is actually broken. And maybe it is. But Silicon Valley seems to be doing well, housing prices in San Francisco remain high, fancy restaurants are packed and tickets...

November 1, 2011 at 3:26 PM EST  |   Photo of "Banks of the Seine" World Heritage Site in Paris by Matthias Ripp via Flickr Creative Commons. A new chapter is unfolding in the Palestinian bid to gain statehood in the United Nations. Momentarily thwarted in their attempts...

November 1, 2011 at 10:47 AM EST  |   Photo by Flickr user J. Paxon Reyes. Chocolate may be the most sought-after treat among trick-or-treaters on Halloween, with little hands grasping for all of the milk- and dark-chocolate morsels they can collect, but the details of its taste...

November 1, 2011 at 8:37 AM EST  |   Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks during a press conference held at the end of a eurozone summit at EU headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 27. Photo by Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images. Greece's leaders have called for a referendum on...

November 1, 2011 at 8:36 AM EST  |   "I have never sexually harassed anyone," Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told Judy Woodruff on Monday's NewsHour. Heading into the second 24 hours of a candidacy consuming story, Herman Cain has several things going for him. Foremost, there have...