May 20, 2013  |   Photo illustration by PBS NewsHour created with Pic Stich Yahoo, the languishing tech pioneer, officially unveiled its acquisition of social blogging platform Tumblr on Monday. The $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo could mean a whole world of things for both...

May 16, 2013  |   On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee. The impending result was almost unfathomable. The months that followed...

May 15, 2013  |   Social media editor Colleen Shalby sported NewsHour's celebrated HatCam Wednesday as she ran the ACLI Capitol Challenge. Video edited by Meena Ganesan Members of Congress, journalists, judges and agency staffers ran on common ground Wednesday morning...

May 6, 2013  |   "Covering Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring...

March 21, 2013  |   Happy birthday, Twitter! The micro-blogging website turned seven Thursday -- the anniversary of when co-founder Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet, ever . just setting up my twttr— Jack...

March 5, 2013  |   "It doesn't have to be the way it is today," Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Judy Woodruff earlier this week, referring to the country's entitlement programs. Cuccinelli, the leading Republican candidate in Virginia's gubernatorial race,...

February 12, 2013  |   President Obama and Vice President Biden posing with the full Cabinet in the Grand Foyer of the White House, July 26, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman had been in office for 18 months when his...

January 29, 2013  |   President Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks at 2:55 p.m. ET on immigration reform at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. Watch the live stream above. President Obama Tuesday is expected to speak on the need for the...

January 8, 2013  |   On Aug. 14, 1996, David Gergen spoke with Richard Ben Cramer as part of his Dialogue series for The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. "What It Takes: The Way To The White House." It's been called "the...

November 30, 2012  |   Filibuster, , U.S. Politics: Informal term for any attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter by debating it at length, by offering numerous procedural motions, or by any other delaying or obstructive actions. (United...

October 23, 2012  |   Whether or not pundits thought President Obama and Mitt Romney addressed foreign policy enough in Monday night's presidential debate, it was their last chance to go one-on-one in front of voters before the election. And with less than two weeks...

October 17, 2012  |   Zingers and memorable catch phrases aside, Tuesday night's lively debate performance by President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney underlined the stakes of the coming election. How do you think the candidates did? Did the debate do anything to...

October 15, 2012  |   It's no surprise that ad buys by presidential candidates and their affiliated groups are costly -- some might even say astronomical -- reaching even greater numbers in swing states, where TV viewers have become intimate with every shape, size and...

October 12, 2012  |   The top four search terms during the vice presidential debate. Graphic and data by Google. From real-time fact checkers to live blogs, tweets, gifs and games, the Internet brought in a trove of analysis, context and laughs Thursday night...

October 9, 2012  |   In the latest installment from our Listen to Me series, where we ask voters what they think of the political system, we travel down south, to country music's heartland -- Tennessee. In 2008, the state cast its 11 electoral votes...

September 13, 2012  |   Photo by Jewel Samad/Getty Images. Update - 7:45 p.m. Received by cheers and applause in a visit to the House chamber Thursday afternoon, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan went along with House Republicans to avoid a government shutdown and...

September 11, 2012  |   An artist rendering of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. By Squared Design Lab. More than a decade of remembrance later, a $1 billion museum at Ground Zero has still not opened -- as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg...

August 3, 2012  |   Activists from the LGBT community organized a National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A Friday. Photo by Flickr user GetMeStarted As you've probably read, or heard, in at least one of the handful of mediums recording reaction this week,...

July 31, 2012  |   Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing minority group in the country, according to the U.S. Census. Last year, they surpassed Latinos as the largest group of new immigrants. While they haven't received the most attention politically, their rapid population growth in swing...

July 26, 2012  |   Mitt Romney and Ray Suarez discuss plans for unprecedented safety measures for both athletes and spectators at the 2002 Winter Olympics. In London Thursday, on the eve of the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies, presumptive Republican presidential...

July 3, 2012  |   On the periphery of a recent Pew poll suggesting voters this election cycle are less enthused than they were four years ago, we turned to you for some insight - do you still care about politics? The question stemmed from...

June 23, 2012  |   Jerry Sandusky in custody outside the courthouse. The scandal began over seven months ago, when accusations that a Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky, had sexually abused boys sent shock waves through the college...

June 22, 2012  |   Gwen Ifill reports from Mitt Romney's bus tour in Ohio. Follow us on Instagram, @NewsHour Voters this election cycle are less enthused than they were four years ago, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center...

June 21, 2012  |   Brushing off any speculation of a possible vice presidential vet by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio slated immigration as his focus at a Washington breakfast Thursday.

June 5, 2012  |   Headlines this past year running into Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin, between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, besieged every news medium. NewsHour's coverage sets the scene....

June 4, 2012  |   Photo of two women found inside the Vietnamese soldier's diary. All images provided by PBS' History Detectives. Unveiling pieces of history Monday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Vietnam's Defense Minister General Thanh exchanged letters and a diary written...

April 30, 2012  |   More than 450 hackers, activists and journalists attended the Sunlight Foundation's weekend Transparency Camp. Photo by Meena Ganesan As members of the White House Correspondents' Association took a break this weekend for their annual gala, a new breed of...

April 16, 2012  |   Poet Tracy Smith read her winning poem "Life on Mars" and reflected on her work on the NewsHour on May 16. Citing "distinguished" prose and reporting, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism, letters, drama and...