Nation Dec 01 Government health care website shows improvement, but bugs remain The worst of the online glitches, crashes and delays may be over for the problem-plagued government health care website, the Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday.
Education Oct 11 Malala, your courage has inspired us A year after being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen while coming home from school, 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai has brought her campaign for education, especially for girls in all regions of the world, to the U.S. On Friday, Malala…
World Aug 27 Syria’s Fragmented Future EmbedVideo(7242, 514, 320); Andrew Tabler, Senior Fellow at the The Washington Institute for Near East Policy joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Washington DC to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria. Today White House Spokesman Jay Carney made the administration's…
Science Aug 07 12 Facts About Hellbender Salamanders List compiled by Rebecca Jacobson. Read our full Science Wednesday report. They have lungs, but they breathe completely through pores in their skin. Their name Cryptobranchus means “secret gill.” They are the third largest species of salamanders in…
Nation Feb 15 Arm Teachers or Ban Video Games? Students Debate in Google Hangout The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has made many schools rethink their safety procedures. It has also sparked emotional debates about the roots of violence. To find out how the tragedy has affected young people, we…
Politics Nov 30 Shields and Brooks on X Tax, Hoosiers and the Irish Gentle people of the World Wide Web, welcome to another edition of the Doubleheader where we talk about the sport of politics and the politics of sport with none other than New York Times columnist David Brooks and…
Education Jun 22 Students in ‘Dropout Factory’ Schools Explore Why Kids Quit Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma, according to data compiled by Education Week. For Hispanic and African American students, the proportion drops to about 50 percent. And there are currently more than…
Nation Jan 04 On Monday’s NewsHour… New travel security measures lead the program Monday, as well as a closer look at Yemen, the country where the al-Qaida offshoot group behind the recent bombing attempt on a U.S-bound airliner is believed to be hiding. Then, an interview…
Nation Aug 26 President Obama, World Leaders, Friends Remember Senator Kennedy As news of the passing of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy spread Wednesday, friends and colleagues mourned the man affectionately known in Washington as the lion of the Senate.