Jan 31 Your Favorite Super Bowl Commercials of All Time There have been countless memorable Super Bowl commercials over the past four decades. With Super Bowl XLVII just days away we asked our NewsHour audience what their favorite Super Bowl commercial of all time is. Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch Chuck Hagel Defends Record at Confirmation Hearing Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, nominee for secretary of defense, faced pointed questioning at his confirmation hearing. Fellow Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, interrogated Hagel on his past opposition to the surge of U.S. troops into Iraq. Judy Woodruff reports… Continue watching
Jan 31 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: Tough questions for former Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of defense Syrian refugees flee to Jordan The debate in Israel over a nuclear-armed Iran Former Vice President Al… Continue reading
Jan 31 Live Blog: Hagel Confirmation Hearing as Secretary of Defense By Larisa Epatko Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., faced questions on possible looming spending cuts at the Pentagon and his support for U.S. ally Israel at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to become secretary of defense. Continue reading
Jan 31 Judy’s Notebook: My Mom Anna Lee Woodruff A week and a half ago, on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 8:10 p.m., in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Augusta, Ga., my 89-year-old mother passed away. My sister and I stood on either… Continue reading
Jan 30 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Wednesday's NewsHour: Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords urges Congress to enact tougher gun laws The state of the economic recovery The Israeli airstrike inside Syria Newly elected Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin And, dissident Chen Guangcheng… Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch Iraq War Vet Receives Rare Double Arm Transplant Former solider and Iraq war veteran Sgt. Brendan Marrocco is the recent recepient of a double arm transplant, which took place at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Marrocco lost all of his limbs during a roadside bomb attack in the spring of… Continue watching
Jan 29 Watch Defense Department Budget Will Be Major Questioning Point for Nominee Hagel Confirmation hearings will soon begin for former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, tapped to replace Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense. Hagel will likely face sharp questioning, especially about the Pentagon's budget crisis. Kwame Holman reports on the defense department's budget… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Daily Download: Can Facebook Posts Get You Fired? NewsHour's political editor Christina Bellantoni talks with the Daily Download's Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn about how the digital world affects and infects the culture we live in. They talk about what one should and shouldn't publish on social media… Continue watching
Jan 28 Ask Larry: Has My Social Security Office Given Me Bad Advice? Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Today, Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff answers readers' questions covering issues from retirement, medicare and more. _Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and… Continue reading