Politics Jun 13 Live Coverage of Supreme Court Decisions Thursday The Supreme Court could make landmark rulings on three major issues this month, weighing affirmative action in higher education, the Voting Rights Act section 5, and California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act,…
Arts Jun 03 Billy Bragg, the Sherpa of Heartbreak For a guy from England, musician Billy Bragg keeps a close and informed eye on America. He follows its politics, its music and, for better or worse, its eating habits, namely its obsession with bacon.
Politics Jun 03 Supreme Court Rules Police Can Swab for DNA Upon Arrest // Watch this discussion with Ray Suarez and National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle about the oral hearings on King v. Maryland at the U.S. Supreme Court. This piece first aired in February 2013. Read a full transcript of the…
Nation May 28 Live Chat with PBS NewsHour Correspondents Now is your chance to ask the PBS NewsHour senior correspondents anything you want. Tweet your questions to @NewsHour. Forty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer reported on the Watergate scandal. Their coverage laid the groundwork for…
Nation May 08 The Latest on Cleveland Kidnapping Case From Ohio’s Ideastream A police officer stands watch outside the family home of Amanda Berry, one of three women held captive in a Cleveland home for almost a decade. Photo by Brian Bull/90.3 WCPN ideastream Authorities charged 52-year-old Ariel Castro with four counts…
World May 07 Hearing: Jets Might Have Prevented Mortar Attack on Benghazi Compound The burnt U.S. consulate in Benghazi a day after the attack. Photo by Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images. Updated Wednesday 3:40 p.m. ET: Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Tripoli, Libya, during the time of the 2012 attack on…
Nation May 02 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Thursday's NewsHour: President Barack Obama travels to Mexico with trade, security and immigration on the agenda The fight over access to emergency contraceptives continues as the Obama administration moves to appeal a federal ruling A bloody April for Iraq,…
World May 01 Live Chat: Is ‘Top Secret America’ Making Us Safer? Watch Top Secret America - 9/11 to the Boston Bombings on…
World Apr 23 ‘The Way of the Knife’ Examines Conflict Between CIA, Pentagon [ DUE TO RIGHTS RESTRICTIONS, VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ] PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner talks to Pulitzer Prize winning author Mark Mazzetti on his new book "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and…