Mar 20 Watch General Allen: Despite Setbacks, Afghan Mission on Track Gen. John Allen said Tuesday that the American and NATO mission in Afghanistan was on track despite a series of serious setbacks, including Quran burnings at a U.S. base and a massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly by an American soldier. Continue watching
Mar 19 Watch Were Multiple Deployments a Factor in Afghan Killings? Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the suspect in the Afghan massacre, had served three tours in Iraq before his Afghanistan deployment. Jeffrey Brown, The Washington Posts's Carol Leonig, a retired army general and an army psychiatrist discuss Bales' failed promotion, former… Continue watching
Mar 19 Final Message From HEAL Africa’s ‘Mama Lyn’: Tell Them Not to Cry By Fred de Sam Lazaro Lyn Lusi (right) with some of the women who received help from HEAL Africa. Photo by Nicole See for the NewsHour. HEAL Africa co-founder Lyn Lusi, who died Saturday from cancer at age 62, spent most of her… Continue reading
Mar 19 Facebook, Twitter Not Dominating News Landscape Just Yet The importance of using social media to promote a news organization's journalism is pretty much a given in any newsroom these days, but as popular as Facebook and Twitter are, they do not seem to be driving as much traffic… Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch U.S. Soldier Accused of Afghan Massacre Begins Building Defense Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, suspected of murdering 16 Afghan civilians near Kandahar, had his first meeting with defense attorney, John Henry Browne on Monday. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Mar 16 Shields, Brooks on Presidential Effects on Gas Prices, March Madness Mascots By Hari Sreenivasan Tonight we tackle a topic that has been bandied about for weeks as citizens across the U.S. face sticker shock at one gas pump after another. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks weigh in on… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch Shields, Brooks on Gas Prices, March Madness Shields, Brooks on Presidential Effects on Gas Prices, March Madness Mascots… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch Campaigns Have Message Discipline Online, but Can’t Control Facebook Groups Campaigns Have Message Discipline Online, but Can't Control Facebook Groups… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch Afghanistan’s Karzai to U.S. Troops: Leave Our Villages The U.S. mission in Afghanistan ran into more trouble Thursday as President Hamid Karzai announced he wants American forces to leave Afghan villages and immediately pull back to their bases in the wake of last weekend's civilian killings, allegedly at… Continue watching
Mar 15 Afghan’s President Karzai ‘Pulled in Conflicting Directions’ By Larisa Epatko A rocky few weeks for the United States in Afghanistan got even rockier Thursday with two simultaneous though presumably unrelated events. Continue reading