Health Sep 16 In New Orleans, Rebuilding a Health System After a Hospital Is Destroyed In September 2005, News Orleans' Charity Hospital was evacuated due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Patients were moved out of the hospital by military truck, airboat, and any other means possible. Mooney Bryant-Penland, a nurse at the hospital, took these…
World Sep 14 Blair: Success Possible in Mideast Talks; Military Must Remain Option With Iran With direct talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set to continue, Margaret Warner spoke with former U.K. Prime Minister and current Middle East envoy Tony Blair Tuesday about the meetings' prospects for…
Nation Sep 10 On Friday’s NewsHour… OBAMA PRESS CONFERENCE | President Obama met with the press in the East Wing of the White House for the first time in three months. During the presser that lasted over an hour, the president addressed concerns about the economy…
Politics Sep 10 Obama: Economy Growing Again, but Progress ‘Painfully Slow’ President Obama said Friday at a nationally televised news conference that economic progress has been “painfully slow,” but investments in business, education and technology will help make America more competitive in the global economy. “While the economy is growing again…the…
Economy Sep 08 Geithner: Past Policy Choices, Politics Making It Harder to Fix U.S. Economy In a newsmaker interview with Jim Lehrer, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday afternoon that economic policy decisions made before this administration took office -- and the current political climate -- are teaming up to make it harder to fix…
Politics Sep 06 Obama Details Infrastructure Plan, Slams GOP as ‘Party of No’ President Obama announced his latest effort to kick-start the economy and create jobs on Monday: a $50 billion infrastructure proposal that would improve the nation's roads, railways and airport runways. The president announced the plan at a town-hall…
Science Sep 02 Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes; 13 Workers Rescued Updated 5:11 p.m. ET | Another offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, sending 13 workers into the water. After initial reports of a 100-foot-wide oil sheen and at least one worker injury, Coast Guard said Thursday…
Nation Sep 01 On Wednesday’s NewsHour… NEWSMAKER: VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN | Margaret Warner sits down with Vice President Joe Biden in Baghdad to talk about the change in the mission and what's to come. MIDEAST PEACE TALKS | Gwen Ifill talks to the former Secretary of…
Politics Aug 31 Obama’s Iraq Speech: Watch Full Video President Obama delivered an address to the nation Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq. _pap_embed_custom('news01s42d8qf54',482,304,""); Find analysis from Mark Shields, David Brooks, David Chalian and others on our special annotated version of the speech text.
Politics Aug 31 Shields and Brooks: Did Obama’s Iraq Speech Lack Political Luster? In special post-speech coverage of President Obama's primetime address marking the end of combat operations, analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks weighed in on what the speech means for military policy, Iraq's ability to "turn the page" and the president's…