Health Jan 15 Health Care Reform Could Hinge on Close Mass. Senate Race Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post spoke with Hari Sreenivasan about this week's big political story: the special election in Massachusetts to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Democrats are scrambling amid…
World Jan 14 U.S. Pledges $100 Million for Haiti Quake Relief President Obama spoke in the diplomatic room of the White House for the second time in as many days Thursday to address the U.S. government's ongoing response to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti this week. He announced that U.S.
World Jan 13 Initial U.S. Effort Focused on Saving Lives The top coordinator for the U.S. response to the massive earthquake in Haiti said the government's first priority is to direct resources toward finding and rescuing people trapped by the earthquake. The U.S. Agency for International Development's Administrator Rajiv Shah…
World Jan 13 Obama: U.S. Coordinating Swift Response to Haitian Earthquake President Barack Obama pledged this morning that the United States would offer a rapid response to help Haiti dig out from the "especially cruel and incomprehensible" 7.0 earthquake that shook the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. "I have directed my administration…
Politics Jan 05 Obama: U.S. Intelligence Failed to ‘Connect Dots’ on Airliner Plot President Obama spoke late this afternoon about his meeting with top national security advisers about a wide-ranging review he ordered of the homeland security and intelligence systems. The message was clear: the U.S. government’s intelligence and air travel security systems…
World Jan 05 What Reforms Would Help U.S. Intelligence Agencies? As President Obama talks to advisers about the lapses that allowed an attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day, the PBS NewsHour asked intelligence experts to weigh in on what reforms they would recommend and to reflect on changes since 2001.
Science Dec 17 GOP Senators Warn that Climate Pledges Must Be OK’d Speaking to the Senate press corps Thursday, a group of Republican lawmakers offered a warning to the Obama administration that any long-term pledge of U.S. money for climate aid at the Copenhagen summit would need approval from Congress. Responding to…
Science Dec 14 When Is a Text Message Private? The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case that could influence how much privacy employees have when sending electronic messages with work devices. The Court will hear arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon, an…
Arts Dec 11 Study on Hispanics Presents Complex Picture of a Growing Demographic The NewsHour's Judy Woodruff spoke with Mark Hugo Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Research Center about their Pew's new study on Hispanics in America. The study reveals a complex portrait of the largest minority population in the United…
Politics Dec 07 Will High Court Tweak Well-Known Miranda Right? Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal spoke with The Rundown about the Supreme Court's busy week ahead. _pap_embed_custom('news01s3669qcf4',482,304,"");…