March 25, 2013  |   The 2010 rescue and recovery effort at Bin No. 9, right, spanned 13 hours. More than 200 people worked to rescue Piper and recover the bodies of Whitebread and Pacas. Photo by John W. Poole/NPR On a scorching July day...

March 11, 2013  |   PBS NewsHour spoke with Ricky Rash about his struggle to gain access to his son's online accounts after the 15-year-old's death in 2011. Eric Rash had a bright future, so when he committed suicide at 15...

November 6, 2012  |   Voters in Ohio cast their ballots. The battleground state is being watched closely as a potential key to winning the White House. Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images. For the last month, the NewsHour worked with public media partners around the...

November 5, 2012  |   In the last days of the campaign, voters in Wisconsin see a final push by both campaigns to win this battleground state. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The spotlight on Wisconsin and their 10 electoral votes grew stronger on Monday....

October 31, 2012  |   'I Voted' stickers are seen during the first day of early voting in Nevada at the East Las Vegas Community Center polling station Oct. 20. Early voting continues in the battleground state of Nevada until Nov. 2. Photo by...

October 26, 2012  |   A woman fills out a provisional ballot at a polling location Nov. 4, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. Of all the attention being given to the battleground states in the final push to Election Day, Ohio...

October 23, 2012  |   Sailors man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in Norfolk, Va. Virginia has a high concentration of military and defense jobs that could be threatened if plans for sequestration are enacted in January. Photo by Eric S. Garst/U.S....

October 18, 2012  |   In New Hampshire, a full roster of women are running for office, including both Democrats running for Congress and the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images The focus on female voters and the issues that impact their lives...

October 10, 2012  |   Voting booths set up for early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on September 27, 2012 in Waterloo, Iowa. In Iowa, 36 percent of voters cast an early ballot in 2008. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. The presidential...

August 24, 2012  |   The most recognizable cyclist in the world, Lance Armstrong, ended a battle Thursday night over allegations that he used performing-enhancing drugs. He continued to deny any doping during the course of his career, but acknowledged he would stop contesting charges...

July 26, 2012  |   The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

July 23, 2012  |   Penn State employees cover the Joe Paterno statue outside of Beaver Stadium before removing it on Sunday, July 22, 2012, in State College, Pa. Photo by Christopher Weddle/ Centre Daily Times/ MCT via Getty Images. In the latest blow...

July 16, 2012  |   Yahoo! has a new leader. Again. Marissa Mayer has been tapped to be the company's next CEO, the fifth person to take the helm of the Internet giant in five years. A longtime Google executive, Mayer had been responsible...

June 14, 2012  |   Now this is a story all about how... we tell stories. Whether it's the Fresh Prince's fights on a Philadelphia playground or the struggles of Odysseus at sea, stories have always captivated our attention, and narrative plays a central...

March 14, 2012  |   Although the Syracuse men's basketball team received a No. 1 seed in this year's championship tournament, the program failed to meet NCAA graduation rate standards. Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images. Ahead of Thursday's tipoff of the NCAA men's basketball...

September 23, 2011  |   "May the book bring some one a few happy hours of suggestive thought!!" Albert Einstein wrote that in 1916 at the end of the preface to his groundbreaking book, "Relativity: The Special and General Theory." Scientists around the globe have...

July 29, 2011  |   President Obama, flanked on stage by executives from the country's leading automakers, announced new fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks Friday that would double the current requirement to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The new rules...

February 9, 2011  |   The CIA fails to hold agents and senior managers to consistent levels of accountability when they make mistakes, even in instances where people have been killed or wrongly imprisoned, according to an investigation by the Associated Press published Wednesday. Matt...

February 7, 2011  |   AOL Inc. announced Sunday night its plan to buy The Huffington Post for $315 million. On Monday's NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown will discuss the details of the deal with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, and Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of her...

December 8, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; A group of hackers from around the globe has launched coordinated attacks in support of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. The attacks have targeted organizations, such as MasterCard, and individuals, including a Swedish prosecutor, who...

November 25, 2010  |   As families and friends gather across the country to celebrate this Thanksgiving, we at the NewsHour have cooked up a small sampling of writings and stories for the holiday. Slate has put together a guide to each side of the...

October 1, 2010  |   Last week, the NewsHour looked at "The Social Network", a film -- opening across the country on Friday -- about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Much has been written about how true to life the film's...

September 16, 2010  |   For even the biggest projects, the devil is always in the details. In late August, the NewsHour profiled a small group of race car enthusiasts in Lynchburg, Va., who have made what they say is a revolutionary new automobile....

August 17, 2010  |   The CIA has tapes of Yemeni national Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the 9/11 plotters being held in Guantanamo, being interrogated in a secret Moroccan prison in 2002, The Associated Press has reported. The tapes were discovered by a CIA employee...

June 23, 2010  |   Landon Donovan scores past Algeria goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi and defender Madjid Bougherra in injury time. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. The U.S. men's national soccer team beat Algeria, 1-0, in dramatic fashion to advance to the next round of...

May 12, 2010  |   <!-- _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...

January 20, 2010  |   The earthquake that devastated Haiti last week has left thousands of children without parents in a country where there were already estimated to be hundreds of thousands of orphans before the quake. Orphanages that were already full to capacity before...

January 13, 2010  |   The massive earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday afternoon devastated the capital Port-au-Prince, crumbling buildings and leaving roads nearly impassable due to debris and people flooding the streets. "The damage is enormous," Gabriel Verret, an economic adviser to Haitian President Rene...

December 10, 2009  |   After more than a century of covering the journalism industry, Editor & Publisher magazine is stopping its presses. The chronicler of newspapers and journalism reported today that its print and online are both shutting down. Its parent company, Nielsen Business...

December 3, 2009  |   The country's largest cable company announced today it plans to buy a controlling stake in one of the most venerable names in the nation's entertainment industry. Comcast Corp. is offering $13.75 billion for 51 percent of NBC Universal from General...