With foreclosed homes still littering the American landscape, federal and state officials announced Thursday a $25 billion deal between 49 states and five mortgage giants designed to give relief to homeowners and hold banks accountable for abusive practices.
A new birth control mandate was under duress this week as Roman Catholic officials said it violated Church teachings and Republicans said it threatened religious freedom.
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Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
Two years after First Lady Michelle Obama launched the "Let's Move!" campaign, we take stock of her progress in the fight against childhood obesity -- both the high-profile successes and equally loud criticism.
"Could you please talk to Richard Wilkinson or Kate Pickett about income inequality?" a reader asks Paul Solman. "According to them, social mobility tends to be stronger in more equal societies, which contradicts Richard Epstein's views about inequality being an incentive for growth."
After decades drilling through more than two miles of ice in the coldest spot on Earth, Russian scientists announced this week that they reached their goal: a subglacial lake the size of Lake Ontario, which has been sealed off from the world for as long as 20 million years.
The program seems simple enough -- recruit Afghans, supply them will job training and send them back to their communities to make a living. But it's in one of Afghanistan's most conflict-prone areas.
So what exactly happened Tuesday night? Suddenly former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has reemerged from the pack to claim the Republican spotlight with three wins - Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri - while front-runner Mitt Romney is combing through the wreckage.
Amid all the worry about how long it will take the economic recovery to kick into high gear, there's a little-noticed sector that's doing very well: American agriculture. Farm sector earnings hit a record last year, with farm income rising just above $100 billion.
Santa Barbara High School covers 40 acres in the tree-lined hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a mere few miles away -- but it's not immune to poverty, violence, dropouts or any of the other ills that plague most schools. We asked several students what made them stay in school.
What will U.S. health care look like in a few years? Last week we asked you to rank the likelihood of four plausible scenarios. We now travel back to the future -- 2025, to be exact -- to analyze the results and find out what will need to happen in the next 13 years for each scenario to become reality.
Reports from the besieged Syrian city of Homs paint a dire picture. On Tuesday, the NewsHour spoke with activist Sami Ibrahim, who was there, about the frightening increase in violence.
"Most of us have played Monopoly," a reader writes. "You set up the board, deal out the money, roll the dice and play until one person collects so much of the wealth that the other players can't buy anything, or pay rent, or pay utility bills."
The Maldives are dealing with political turmoil as police and protesters clash in the capital and the island nation's president was forced to resign this week. ITVS features the documentary "The Island President" that gives exclusive access to now former President Mohamed Nasheed.
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Okfuskee County has the highest poverty rate in Oklahoma with many people in small, rural towns struggling to find jobs. State Impact Oklahoma reports on the rural poverty that's been going on for generations in these rural areas and others like it across the country.
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Feb. 9, 2012
After nearly 20 years of drilling, Russian scientists have reached a crystal clear underground lake -- two miles beneath the solid ice of the continent of Antarctica. The breakthrough could unearth creatures that have survived 20 million years without seeing daylight and give clues about life elsewhere in the solar system.
