Sep 09 Watch Fight Over Gun Control in Colorado Draws National Attention to Recall Elections Fight Over Gun Control in Colorado Draws National Attention to Recall Elections… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch Polls: Few Americans Believe Strike Would Dissuade Future Chemical Warfare Polls: Few Americans Believe Strike Would Dissuade Future Chemical Warfare… Continue watching
Sep 09 The NewsHour is LIVE! By News Desk Photo by Joshua Barajas It's 6 p.m. EDT -- what program are you watching? Co-anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are kicking off the program now. Watch us live on our UStream channel. Continue reading
Sep 09 How Kerry's Syria ultimatum may have become an inadvertent solution .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } While in London early Monday,… Continue reading
Sep 09 Facebook data shows who is talking about Syria NBC News and Facebook partnered to look at the demographics of the conversation about Syria. Some notes from the report concerning Facebook and Syria: Men are posting about Syria nearly twice as much as women. Washington, D.C. had… Continue reading
Sep 09 Black infants face a high risk of premature birth and complications The LA Times reports on a stark racial divide in the delivery room. Black women...are 1 1/2 times as likely as white women to give birth prematurely, and their babies are more than twice as likely to die before… Continue reading
Sep 09 Michelle Bachmann visits Cairo, criticizes Muslim Brotherhood Three U.S. lawmakers -- Michelle Bachmann, Steve King and Louie Gohmert -- released a 15-minute video while in Cairo Saturday thanking the Egyptian military for cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, which she dubbed a "great evil" and… Continue reading
Sep 09 E-Cigarette use doubles among junior and high school students Photo by Flickr user Michael Dorausch The CDC has found that the popularity of electronic cigarettes is growing among American teens: Between 2011 and 2012, the percent of junior high and high school students who… Continue reading
Sep 09 Rice: Syrian chemical weapons threaten U.S. national security National Security Advisor Susan Rice addresses the situation in Syria at the New America Foundation in Washington. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/ AFP/ Getty Images. While President Barack Obama continues his campaign for support on a military strike in… Continue reading
Sep 09 Cave so large it swallows clouds now open to tourists Photo courtesy of Oxalis Vietnam's Son Doong cave was only recently explored and now a tour operator is accepting reservations. Tours start at $3,000 per person and only 220 permits are allocated per year. But, for… Continue reading