Politics Mar 23 Political Animals: Taming Campaign Creatures A major part of a politician's daily life has always been the ubiquitous photo-op, and besides kissing babies, nothing may be used more than animals to try to highlight the candidate's softer, more human side to the American public. Yet,…
Politics Mar 23 Political Animals: Taming Campaign Creatures A big part of a politician's daily life is the photo-op, and besides kissing babies, nothing is used more often than animals to help highlight the candidate's softer, more human side to voters. Here's a look back at some political…
Economy Mar 03 BP to Pay $7.8 Billion in Gulf Oil Spill Settlement BP says it has reached a $7.8 billion settlement with lawyers representing thousands of plaintiffs who were affected by the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The announcement came late Friday as a much anticipated trial in a New…
World Dec 29 The Photos That Defined 2011 2011 will be remembered as a year that ended authoritative regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. The most wanted fugitive in the world was killed in Pakistan and severe weather battered the global population. We also said goodbye to…
World Oct 20 A Visual Look Back at the Libyan Revolution Thursday's death of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi concluded a bloody nine-month uprising and set off wild celebrations across the North African nation. Here are a few of the best images in photo journalism to emerge from Libya's revolution.
Science Sep 19 The Return of the Gray Wolf Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on the successful return of a once endangered species now caught in the crosshairs of cattle ranchers.
Arts Aug 24 For Great Sioux Nation, Black Hills Can’t Be Bought for $1.3 Billion Nine Sioux tribes have been locked in a land dispute since 1877, when the government broke a treaty setting aside the Black Hills as part of their reservation. However, there is a chance that the Great Sioux Nation's long struggle…
Nation Jul 19 Turmoil in Libya: Five Months On It's been over five months since the Arab Spring first swept into Libya, shaking Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year grip on power and spawning a deadly civil war that has killed up to 15, 000 people, according the U.N. Human Rights…
Nation May 13 Jim Lehrer: The Video Highlights Jim Lehrer announced this week that he's stepping back from daily anchor and co-anchor duties on the PBS NewsHour - so we decided to take a look back at some highlights from his 52 years in journalism and his…
World Mar 17 Photographer Reflects on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World // Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he's done extended…