Science Jun 05 Coast Guard’s Allen: 6,000 Barrels of Oil Captured on Friday Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters Saturday morning that a containment cap atop the leaking oil well funneled about 6,000 barrels (252,000 gallons) of oil over 24 hours on Friday to a tanker on the surface of the…
Politics May 18 Rand Paul Wins GOP Nomination for Kentucky Senate Seat In a race viewed across the U.S. as a test of the strength of the tea party movement, Rand Paul beat GOP establishment favorite Trey Grayson in the Kentucky primary for U.S. Senate, The Associated Press and other media organizations…
Politics Apr 09 Tax Day Town Hall Meeting With Romer, Martinez: Ask Your Questions We want you to be part of a town hall meeting we're hosting in Tampa -- regardless of whether you happen to live in Florida or not. Judy Woodruff is hosting the event as part of our "Spotlight…
Politics Feb 26 Health Reform’s Next Step: 23rd Use of Reconciliation? As Democrats weigh the next steps for health reform on the heels of a bipartisan summit on the stalled legislation, one option under discussion is a rarely used Senate procedure known as reconciliation.
Politics Feb 01 President Obama Answers Questions Posted to YouTube Updated 6:20pm ET In a live Webcast Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama answered questions posed by members of the YouTube community. The video will be archived here. You can read a full transcript of the interview here, courtesy…
World Jan 14 Salvation Army Disaster Chief: Bodies ‘Piled Up Like Cordwood’ We spoke this afternoon with Bob Poff, the Salvation Army's divisional director of disaster services in Haiti, via Skype. Poff's apartment was destroyed and he and his wife lost most of their belongings. Quake victims have been pouring into…
Health Jan 14 Hours From Epicenter, ‘Secondary Stresses’ for Haitian Hospital We received an e-mail Wednesday from Ian Rawson, managing director of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti -- a 100-bed referral hospital in central Haiti's Artibonite Valley three hours north of Port-au-Prince -- about what he was witnessing: We were not…
Nation Jan 11 Do You Know Where Your News Was Gathered? Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism stopped by The Rundown to talk about where news originates amid today’s changing media environment. His organization’s “How News Happens” study examined the “news ecosystem” of Baltimore to track whether…
World Jan 07 Obama: ‘The Buck Stops With Me’ on National Security President Obama said Thursday afternoon that in regard to terror threats against the United States, "the buck stops with me." He suggested that nobody would be fired as a result of the attempted airliner attack on Christmas, saying that the…
Politics Dec 31 Blackwater Guards Cleared of Iraq Shooting Charges by Federal Judge A federal judge in Washington on Thursday dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina's ruling does not state whether the shooting in a crowded Baghdad…