April 15, 2011  |   Updated on April 22 with video of sixth and final segment in the series. The PBS NewsHour is launching a special series of reports, both on-air and online, about a puzzling disorder that touches many lives across the U.S.: Autism...

March 21, 2011  |   Updated 4:45 p.m. ET | During a press conference in Chile Monday, President Obama took new questions on the military action in Libya, saying that while it has always been U.S. policy that Gadhafi "needs to go," U.S. military action...

January 25, 2011  |   Amid new calls for political civility after the Tucson shooting, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, have led a campaign for a bipartisan seating plan at Tuesday's State of the Union -- reversing a tradition that usually...

December 24, 2010  |   RETAIL ECONOMY | Retailers had high hopes for business on this Christmas Eve. Jeffrey Brown talks to Dana Telsey, a retail-industry watcher. RICHARDSON ON NORTH KOREA | New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is a former U.N. ambassador with extensive experience...

December 7, 2010  |   TAX CUTS: President Obama used a White House news conference Tuesday to make the case for the tax cut compromise he brokered Monday. Jeffrey Brown talks to economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Stephen Moore of the...

November 1, 2010  |   It's Election Day eve for the 2010 midterms, and political coverage promises to be plentiful Tuesday. But for the finest election news and analysis, there's only one PBS NewsHour -- and we'll have special coverage online, on-air and on mobile...

October 12, 2010  |   The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is lifting a moratorium on deep water oil drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration has been under pressure from business leaders and others to...

October 11, 2010  |   A group of trapped miners in Chile inched closer to freedom over the weekend, as engineers worked to complete a nearly 2,050 foot-long shaft that will ultimately carry the 33 men to the surface. Officials expect to start plucking the...

September 27, 2010  |   Amid the recent rise in tensions between China and Japan over Japan's arrest of a Chinese trawler captain, Beijing has unleashed a reported trading halt on an unusual commodity: rare earth. Rare earth are metallic elements that play a critical...

September 9, 2010  |   President Obama called a Florida church's plan to burn a Quran a "destructive act" and said it could endanger troops in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday morning. The threat from Pastor Terry Jones may cast a dark...

September 1, 2010  |   Hours after a primetime address marking the end of combat operations in Iraq, President Obama pivots Wednesday to another complex and vexing Mideast issue: Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. President Obama will host talks in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

August 2, 2010  |   After weeks of calculating and revising, the group of scientists appointed by the government to estimate the size of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak have released new figures that, if correct, will make the leak the world's largest accidental...

August 2, 2010  |   Updated 11:30 a.m. EST BP's President Kent Wells said Monday that crews will likely start the so-called "static kill" attempt Tuesday if tests Monday determine the well can withstand the mud, the AP reports. Posted 9:15 a.m. EST BP is...

July 30, 2010  |   Updated 10:45 a.m. EST The U.S. military has announced that three more American troops have been killed in Afghanistan, raising the monthly toll to 66. Posted 10:10 a.m. EST Newly-named BP CEO Bob Dudley will outline the company's long-term plans...

July 27, 2010  |   After days of speculation, BP made it official early Tuesday: embattled CEO Tony Hayward will step down from his post and be replaced by American Robert Dudley on Oct. 1. The news comes as the company, which is still...

July 26, 2010  |   More than 90,000 classified U.S. documents detailing the war in Afghanistan have been published online by the whistle-blower group WikiLeaks, offering a newly detailed window of insight into the U.S. military's struggle to confront the Taliban and the role...

July 17, 2010  |   After two days of waiting and watching as a containment cap kept new oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since a spill disaster began, officials decided Saturday to extend a test on BP's broken...

July 14, 2010  |   On Wednesday's NewsHour, our lead story will look at the escalating war in Afghanistan and a recent spike in U.S. causalities. The death toll for July stands at 33 so far, on track to top last month's record of 60....

June 16, 2010  |   One of the things President Obama called for Tuesday night in his address to the nation on the Gulf oil crisis was an end to the country's addiction to fossil fuels. On Wednesday's NewsHour, we have a report on the...

June 15, 2010  |   Oil executives from five major companies head to Capitol Hill Tuesday to testify at a House hearing on industry safety as President Obama prepares to deliver remarks to a frustrated nation on the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil crisis. Oil...

June 9, 2010  |   Final results are still coming in from the 12 states with primaries Tuesday but a few headlining outcomes have emerged, notably that incumbent Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln has survived a challenge in that state's Democratic primary to run for a...

May 9, 2010  |   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....

March 3, 2010  |   President Barack Obama will outline his plan to move ahead on health reform legislation in a speech Wednesday afternoon and is expected to call for an up-or-down vote on an overhaul package. Democratic leaders are hoping the move will sway...

February 27, 2010  |   Update 7:40pm EST As Chile raced to assess the damage from Saturday's powerful earthquake, Hawaii canceled its tsunami warning after hours of waiting and watching its shores for dangerous waves triggered by the temblor. "We dodged a bullet," said...

February 18, 2010  |   Here's a look at what you'll find on Thursday's PBS NewsHour: Deficit Commission: President Obama signed an executive order Thursday, setting up a bipartisan commission on the federal deficit. Judy Woodruff talks to the panel's co-chairmen: Republican Alan Simpson and...

January 28, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s39b6qdab',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks offered their reactions to President Obama's State of the Union address and the GOP response, delivered by Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell, at the conclusion of...

January 15, 2010  |   During a press briefing late Friday afternoon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took questions on the relief effort in Haiti and announced plans to travel to the beleaguered country on Saturday. She also referenced a segment the NewsHour aired Monday...

January 13, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom('news01s38a8qd79',482,392,""); //--><!]]> This raw footage from APTN shows the damage at the United Nation's office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Stay tuned for ongoing coverage of the situation in Haiti online and on tonight's NewsHour broadcast....

January 3, 2010  |   The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen Sunday, citing continued security threats from al-Qaida groups in the country. Both counties also plan increase aid to the government of Yemen to fight terrorism in the aftermath of the failed...

January 1, 2010  |   Here's what's coming up on Friday's PBS NewsHour: PAKISTAN VIOLENCE | A suicide bomb blast ripped through a sporting event in northwest Pakistan Friday, killing at least 75 people. After a report on the attack, Ray Suarez talks to two...

December 28, 2009  |   Updated 4:45pm ET According to media reports, the group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attempt to bring down the Amsterdam to Detroit jet on Christmas Day, saying the attack was retaliation for a U.S. operation against...

December 25, 2009  |   Here's what's coming up on the PBS NewsHour on this Christmas Day... HOLIDAY WRAP: Millions around the world celebrated the Christmas holiday even as blizzards disrupted travel in the central U.S. And amid the traditional festivities and religious observances, questions...

December 23, 2009  |   Lawmakers continue to work toward passage of a bill to reform the nation's health care system with one more procedural hurdle slated for Wednesday, before a final vote now planned for Christmas Eve morning. The third procedural vote comes Wednesday...

December 22, 2009  |   As the Senate prepares for a landmark vote on a health care overhaul, Jim Lehrer will sit down with President Barack Obama at the White House Wednesday afternoon for an exclusive television interview on the health reform push and more....

December 22, 2009  |   President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with representatives of a dozen small and community banks at the White House in a follow-up to a similar meeting he held last week with some of the nation's top bankers. The Wall Street...

December 21, 2009  |   After a weekend of political bargaining and raucous partisan debate, Senate Democrats won a key early-morning procedural vote Monday on a bill to overhaul the nation's health care system, inching the measure closer to a final vote by Christmas Eve....

December 14, 2009  |   China, India and other developing nations brought U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen to a temporary stop on Monday over demands that wealthy countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions. EU environment spokesman Andreas Carlgren told news agencies...

December 3, 2009  |   The Rundown, the PBS NewsHour's news blog, is written by a team of reporters, producers, editors and on-air correspondents -- all led by our new online/on-air correspondent Hari Sreenivasan. The goal of the Rundown is three-fold: To cover the day's...