Feb 28 Report: Medical Experiments Conducted on U.S. Prisoners, Patients In an article released this weekend, Associated Press reporter Mike Stobbe details new revelations about medical experiments conducted decades ago by the U.S. government. Most of the experiments are 40 to 80 years old, and included giving hepatitis… Continue reading
Feb 28 Monday on the NewsHour: A Look at ‘Parazit’ By Tom LeGro, Anne Azzi Davenport More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with "Parazit" duo Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi. Continue reading
Feb 25 Getting Around Gadhafi: Rethinking Revolution Coverage From Libya One of our segments on Friday's PBS NewsHour was not like the other ones, in that it came together in a slightly different manner than what has been standard operating procedure here. While we can count on our… Continue reading
Feb 24 Afghans Brace for Another Spring Fraught With Violence By Larisa Epatko Since U.S.-led forces unseated the Taliban in 2001, springtime in Afghanistan has generally brought increased fighting between insurgents and coalition forces. Many Afghans expect this year to be no different. Continue reading
Feb 17 NPR’s Andy Carvin on Tracking and Tweeting Revolutions We caught up with NPR's Senior Strategist Andy Carvin between his 400+ tweets a day for a chat about his Twitter stream. It has become a must-follow wire service of sorts for people interested in the latest developments in… Continue reading
Feb 16 Restoring Ancient Artifacts: What Does it Take? As the dust settles on Egypt's recent protests, one less-discussed outcome of the uprising is the damage done to some of the country's ancient artifacts. After would-be looters broke into the famous Egyptian museum in Cairo in search of… Continue reading
Feb 16 Military Budget Criticized for Spending Too Much, Not Spending Enough As Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared on Capitol Hill Wednesday to begin pushing for the Obama administration's defense budget, the Pentagon's spending plans were already taking flak from the political left and right. One side says proposed cuts are not… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Live and Discuss: Secretary Clinton Speaks About Internet Freedom Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is set to speak Tuesday afternoon about Internet freedom around the world. The speech, entitled "Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges in a Networked World," will begin around 12:30 p.m. at… Continue reading
Feb 09 Bombings in Iraq Kill 7, Prosecutors Seek Trial for Italy’s Berlusconi Several bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed seven people, including two policemen, and injured an estimated 80 more. The oil-rich region has been relatively quiet in recent months but is also the seat of ethnic tensions. Continue reading
Feb 08 New Rumsfeld Memoir Settles Scores, Spreads Responsibility for Iraq War "At its heart, it is a revenge memoir," writes NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill in her Washington Post review of former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld's new book, "Known and Unknown." The book certainly includes its fair… Continue reading