World Nov 20 Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder: What Is Hamas? Photo of Hamas flag by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images. By Jonathan Masters, online editor/writer for the Council on Foreign Relations What Is Hamas? Hamas is the largest and most influential Palestinian militant movement that, along with the…
Nation Nov 19 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Monday's NewsHour: The Middle Eastern conflict rages on, as Israeli airstrikes continue to pound Gaza City Margaret Warner's inside look at the Syrian opposition and help it gets from Turkey President Obama's historic visit to Myanmar And, Maine's newest…
Nation Nov 16 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Friday's NewsHour: Israel prepares for a possible ground offensive in Gaza and Hamas rockets target Jerusalem The legal fallout after Colorado voters approved the recreational use of marijuana David Brooks and Ruth Marcus Plus, Margaret Warner on the view…
Nation Nov 15 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Thursday's NewsHour: Oil giant BP will pay $4.5 billion and plead guilty to felony charges connected to the 2010 Gulf Coast spill The stepped-up conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza China's new leader Xi Jinping Plus, what humans…
World Nov 14 Austerity Protests Grip Europe Transportation in parts of Europe was at a standstill Wednesday as strikers forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and many train routes in Spain and Portugal. Demonstrators railed against government cuts in major cities across the…
Nation Nov 14 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Wednesday's NewsHour: President Obama's first full-fledged news conference since March The latest on the scandal involving CIA director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen The deadly toll of the meningitis outbreak Plus, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan…
Nation Nov 12 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Monday's NewsHour: New questions about the FBI investigation that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus Back in school in New Jersey after the storm Lost combat records from the Afghan and Iraq wars And, remembering veterans…
World Nov 09 Thousands of Syrians Cross Into Turkish Border Town As members of Syria's opposition met in Doha, Qatar, on Friday, thousands of Syrians were ducking under barbed wire and braving tank patrols to seek refuge in neighboring Turkey. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported Friday that…
Politics Nov 09 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Friday's NewsHour: In his first public statement after winning a second term, President Obama addresses the looming economic crisis Was Tuesday's election a turning point after voters in three states approved same-sex marriage? The hurdles in restoring New Jersey's…
Nation Nov 08 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On Thursday's NewsHour: The looming fiscal cliff, and prospects for a bipartisan deal What's next for the Republican Party after Tuesday's defeat Why it's taken so long to declare a result in Florida Plus, pediatricians prescribe reading for building better…