Oct 19 Watch The Pope reaches out to the Jewish Community Kim Lawton, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, on the Pope's overtures to the Jewish community. Continue watching
Oct 19 Happy Birthday John Lithgow Today is renowned actor and poetry enthusiast John Lithgow's birthday. View him reading 'I Go Back to May 1937' by Sharon Olds for the NewsHour. Continue reading
Oct 19 Malala reunited with friends injured in attack Malala Yousafzai (R), Kainat Riaz (L) and Shazia Ramzan participate at the inaugural meeting of the Global Citizenship Commission in the McEwan Hall at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Credit: Reuters/Russell Cheyne… Continue reading
Oct 19 What we're watching Saturday Suicide bomber attacks cafe in Somalia Somali government soldiers gather at the scene of a suicide bomb attack within a military base tea shop in the Somalian town of Baladweyne. Credit: Reuters/Stringer A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden jacket… Continue reading
Oct 19 #titanic #BREAKING Violin rescued from the Titanic sells for £900,000— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) October 19, 2013 That's approximately $1,454,400. Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch Remembering Tom Foley with a look back at his time as House speaker Looking back at Tom Foley's time as House speaker… Continue watching
Oct 18 Newest $3.5 billion navy ship -- actually commanded by Captain Kirk -- is floating data center with guns The 1,000-ton deckhouse of the future destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is craned toward the deck of the ship to be integrated with the ship's hull at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works on Dec. 14, 2012. US Navy Photo… Continue reading
Oct 18 JP Morgan reportedly reaches $4 billion settlement for claims over mortgage bonds The Wall Street Journal reported that JPMorgan Chase & Co reached a tentative $4 billion deal with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle claims that the bank misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about the… Continue reading
Oct 18 'Unimaginable' discovery could rewrite the history of human ancestry It's time to prune some branches off the human family tree. In a discovery that reveals how much we have to learn about the evolution of our own species, archaeologists in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia uncovered… Continue reading
Oct 18 Marriage equality gets support from NBA team Flickr User Amy Meredith The Portland Trailblazers became the first NBA team to take a stance on same-sex marriage when they voiced their support for an initiative to put gay marriage on the November 2014 ballot… Continue reading