December 18, 2011  |   Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic dictator of North Korea, has died, state television announced Monday. He was 69. The state-run Korean Central News Agency said Kim died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday of "a great mental and physical strain" on a train...

August 26, 2011  |   If you were looking to find a homeless person, Facebook would be a good place to start, according to Mark Horvath. "One hundred percent of the sheltered homeless that I've run into are using Facebook," he said. Horvath used to...

May 5, 2011  |   Speaking in Rome on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her perspective on what was happening in the White House Situation Room when the now-iconic photo was taken during the risky Sunday raid on Osama bin Laden's compound....

April 21, 2011  |   With this week marking the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and start of the Gulf oil spill, we checked back with Christopher Choy, a roustabout who survived the blast on the rig, to see how he is faring...

February 15, 2011  |   President Obama is holding a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss his 2012 budget proposal. Watch it live....

December 21, 2010  |   Tuesday was a major day for the U.S. Census as it announced the latest U.S. population , the changes in state populations and the new distribution of congressional seats. On Tuesday's NewsHour, Judy Woodruff discusses...

December 3, 2010  |   President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Friday, telling U.S. troops they are making progress and that they will succeed in their mission. "Today we can be proud there are fewer areas under Taliban control," the president said...

November 5, 2010  |   Outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that despite the drubbing that Democrats suffered in House races Tuesday, she intends to run for her party's minority leader. Around 1 p.m. Friday, she tweeted: Driven by the urgency of...

October 22, 2010  |   NPR's firing of Juan Williams this week for remarks about Muslims on Fox News has spawned numerous side discussions among journalists, commentators and politicians about media ethics, views of Muslims in the U.S. and public media funding. We'll have...

October 5, 2010  |   The idea of merging the Web and television was so powerful in the late 90s that the U.S. government classified it as a weapon, but the promise has since suffered "years of false-starts and not-quite-there implementations." As people spend more...

September 22, 2010  |   In an interview with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton said that President Obama and the Democrats haven't mounted an effective defense against criticism from Republicans, but they do have enough time to convince voters before...

September 21, 2010  |   A Washington, D.C., police officer hands a warning Tuesday to a driver who was talking on his cell phone. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Government leaders and safety advocates are meeting again Tuesday in Washington to discuss ways to...

September 9, 2010  |   Updated 9:25 p.m. ET | Late Thursday, Pastor Terry Jones told news agencies he was rethinking his decision to cancel the burning of Qurans to mark the 9/11 anniversary because he believes he was lied to about the relocating of...

September 1, 2010  |   A study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center found that the yearly flow of illegal immigrants into the United States dropped nearly two-thirds from 2007 to 2009 from the first five years of last decade. This sharp decline has...

August 31, 2010  |   Watch special NewsHour coverage of the president's speech on the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, including analysis from columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks on your local PBS station at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday. You can...

August 2, 2010  |   It's been a busy few days for online privacy and personal tech. Here's a breakdown of some of the latest major developments: Banned in Abu Dhabi If you were planning to update your friends and coworkers about your trip to...

June 28, 2010  |   Robert C. Byrd, the late senator who set records for most votes and career longevity, will also be remembered for his style of oration -- more in step with the Roman Senate than with the era of Twitter. As Illinois...

June 10, 2010  |   Updated 4:22 p.m. ET | At least 200 remains in Arlington National Cemetery have been misidentified or misplaced, according to a report released Thursday that brings into question burial and maintenance procedures at what Army Secretary John McHugh calls...

June 5, 2010  |   Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters Saturday morning that a containment cap atop the leaking oil well funneled about 6,000 barrels of oil over 24 hours on Friday to a tanker on the surface of the Gulf...

May 20, 2010  |   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 18, 2010  |   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...

April 13, 2010  |   TAMPA, Fla. | On Monday's NewsHour, we heard Jennifer's Orr-Bryan's story of struggling to find work and keep her home as part of our look at how the economic downturn has rippled through our Spotlight City state of Florida....

April 13, 2010  |   St. PETERSBURG, Fla. | Rumors of legacy media's demise may be greatly exaggerated, even as the recession drags on, Tampa Bay media leaders said Tuesday. At a panel discussion moderated by Gwen Ifill as part of the NewsHour's ongoing Spotlight...

April 10, 2010  |   More than 100 hours after an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine Monday afternoon, the final four missing West Virginia miners were found dead, officials announced early Saturday, extinguishing hopes of a miracle that they might have taken shelter....

April 9, 2010  |   We want you to be part of a town hall meeting we're hosting in Tampa -- regardless of whether you happen to live in Florida or not. Judy Woodruff is hosting the event as part of our "Spotlight City" reporting...

April 7, 2010  |   Crews have opted to drill a third borehole deep into a West Virginia coal mine in hopes of drawing out enough poisonous, explosive gas to allow rescue teams to reenter the area and hopefully find four miners alive, officials...

February 15, 2010  |   On Monday's NewsHour, we're airing a collaborative report narrated by Lowell Bergman that looks into police checkpoints in California and whether they target drunk drivers, unlicensed drivers, undocumented immigrants or all of the above. The first part of the multimedia...

February 11, 2010  |   Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday in New York after complaining about chest pain. A statement released by Douglas Band, a counselor to Clinton, read: "Today President Bill Clinton was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian...

February 5, 2010  |   UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS | The latest U.S. unemployment reading dropped to 9.7 percent, but that doesn't include many who have given up looking for work. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect magazine and former treasury official David...

February 5, 2010  |   Toyota's* president apologized Friday for problems that have led to millions of recalled vehicles worldwide, tarnished the automaker's reputation for safety and put the company "in crisis." "I would like to take this opportunity to apologize from the bottom of...

February 1, 2010  |   Updated 6:20pm ET In a live Webcast Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama answered questions posed by members of the YouTube community. The video will be archived here. You can read a full transcript of the interview here, courtesy of the...

January 14, 2010  |   We spoke this afternoon with Bob Poff, the Salvation Army's divisional director of disaster services in Haiti, via Skype. Poff's apartment was destroyed and he and his wife lost most of their belongings. Quake victims have been pouring into their...

January 14, 2010  |   We received an e-mail Wednesday from Ian Rawson, managing director of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti -- a 100-bed referral hospital in central Haiti's Artibonite Valley three hours north of Port-au-Prince -- about what he was witnessing: We were not affected...

January 11, 2010  |   Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism stopped by The Rundown to talk about where news originates amid today's changing media environment. His organization's "How News Happens" study examined the "news ecosystem" of Baltimore to track whether news...

January 7, 2010  |   President Obama said Thursday afternoon that in regard to terror threats against the United States, "the buck stops with me." He suggested that nobody would be fired as a result of the attempted airliner attack on Christmas, saying that the...

December 31, 2009  |   A federal judge in Washington on Thursday dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina's ruling does not state whether the shooting in a crowded Baghdad...

December 31, 2009  |   The White House just released a statement from President Obama about the status of the review he ordered of the nation's terrorist watch list and other air travel safety measures: This morning, I spoke with John Brennan about preliminary assessments...

December 29, 2009  |   On the PBS NewsHour this Tuesday: AIR SAFETY | Margaret Warner reports on President Obama's latest criticism of security failures surrounding the Christmas Day airliner bombing attempt and the latest news on the suspect. SECURITY VS. PRIVACY | Gwen Ifill...

December 28, 2009  |   President Barack Obama said Monday afternoon that he has ordered a review of the U.S. air travel watch list system and air safety regulations following the failed Christmas Day attempt to bring down a Northwest Airlines airliner bound for...

December 28, 2009  |   At least seven Iranian opposition leaders were reported to have been arrested Monday including three top aides to former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi just a day after his nephew was killed in the largest political protests in Iran...

December 25, 2009  |   During this holiday season, our partners over at GlobalPost have filed a number of holiday reports from around the world, including one on Santa's humble roots on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast and another on how a lack of tourists spells financial...

December 25, 2009  |   On Christmas morning, the Taliban released a video that appears to show a soldier captured almost six months ago in Afghanistan. Pfc. Bowe Robert Bergdahl, 23, disappeared June 30 from his combat post in the Paktika province, near the border...

December 15, 2009  |   Tuesday's announcement that the Obama administration intends to move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to an underutilized prison in rural Illinois has met resistance from congressional Republicans and the largest state employee union. There are also legal hurdles to clear,...

December 4, 2009  |   Signing off of Friday's broadcast, Jim Lehrer outlined the journalistic mindset that has driven the program for 34 years and will continue to guide it when its fifth iteration relaunches Monday as the PBS NewsHour: JIM LEHRER: People often ask...