PBS NewsHour Expands with 'NewsHour Weekend'

TV critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun used recent news of layoffs at the PBS NewsHour as an opportunity to review the current state of the longstanding nightly news broadcast. NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill, deputy executive producer Kathleen McCleery and CEO Bo Jones respond to Zurawik's critique.

Forty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer reported on the Watergate scandal. Their coverage laid the groundwork for what would become the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, known today as the PBS NewsHour.

Who's responsible for the blue paint? What's always in the banana stand? What does Annyong's name really mean? If you can answer any one of these, your "Arrested Development" knowledge is truly ... developed. Take PBS NewsHour's quiz.

Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter helps users mobilize around a common cause. But what if their message is one of hate? The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group working against global racism, has compiled a list of hundreds of websites it deems hateful and is pushing their host sites to remove them.

Tech company Yahoo bought Tumblr for a reported $1.1 billion, adding the fast-growing social media site with more than 100 million blogs to its roster of assets. Jeffrey Brown talks with Rebecca Lieb, a research analyst for the Altimeter Group, about the appeal of the image-centric and mobile-friendly blogging platform.

The Watergate scandal began with a burglary in June 1972 and ended with a president's resignation in August 1974.

A trio of scandals has put President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on the hot seat.

Judy Woodruff talks with David Schultz, legal counsel for the Associated Press, about the procedures for accessing information from the news media about confidential sources, what constitutes "crossing the line" by the government and whether the current investigation was justified by the gravity of the situation.