Apr 20 New ‘Passenger Bill of Rights’ Limits Tarmac Time, Reimburses Lost Bags Passengers wait in check-in lines (Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Wednesday a bulked-up version of the "Passenger Bill of Rights" for consumers traveling by air. The new set of protections is built on… Continue reading
Apr 20 Photographer, Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington has been reported killed Wednesday in Misrata, Libya, in a mortar attack. Continue reading
Apr 20 Hillsong UNITED Finds a Faithful Following When Brian and Bobbie Houston moved from New Zealand to Baulkham Hills, Australia, in 1978 they didn't realize they were on the brink of starting a global Christian movement. Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch Will Uptick in Violence Derail U.S. Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan? Ray Suarez talks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran about the rising violence in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Jennifer Egan’s ‘A Visit From the Goon Squad’ Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The winners each recently sat down with Jeffrey Brown to talk about their work. Continue watching
Apr 18 Newspapers’ Haiti Earthquake, Russia Coverage Among Latest Pulitzer Prizes The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon, recognizing achievement in journalism and the arts. The prestigious awards are administered by Columbia University. View the full list of winners, and links to the stories, here. Among the… Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch U.S. Faces Difficult Balancing Act Amid Uprisings in Arab World Why Does U.S. Having Varying Responses to Mid-East Unrest?… Continue watching
Apr 15 World’s Oldest Man Dies at the Age of 114 By Lauren Knapp Walter Breuning, who for nearly two years was hailed as the world's oldest man, died of natural causes in his home in Great Falls, Mont. on Thursday. He was 114. In 2009, Montana PBS correspondent William Marcus interviewed the… Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch Pakistani Legislator Stands Up to Extremists Over Blasphemy Law In Pakistan, calls to reform a blasphemy law have resulted in the assassination of two key moderate politicians. Margaret Warner talks to Pakistani Parliament member Sherry Rehman, who has challenged the law and become the focus of several protests and… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch ‘Brain Rattler’ Schedule Among Big Problems for Air-Traffic Controllers The Federal Aviation Administration's top air-traffic control official resigned Thursday following another report of a controller sleeping on the job, forcing a medical flight to land without tower guidance in Reno. Judy Woodruff discusses the safety concerns with Alan Levin,… Continue watching