Oct 16 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Tuesday's NewsHour: The presidential candidates meet for a town hall debate -- their second head to head contest Two new drugs linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak The foreign policy debate this election year And, Cuba announces it will… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Former Sen. Arlen Specter, 82, Prioritized Law, Policy Over Party Affiliation Former Sen. Arlen Specter, 82, 'Fiercely Independent' and Devoted to the People… Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster… Continue watching
Oct 15 Twitter Chat: What to Expect for the Town Hall Debate By Colleen Shalby Politics editor Christina Bellantoni answered your questions Monday about the town hall presidential debate during a live Twitter chat. See the archived chat below and look for more coverage on the second presidential debate Tuesday on our website where we'll… Continue reading
Oct 15 U.S. Navy, Allies Find Less Than Half the Sea Mines Planted in Key Exercise By David Chalian Below the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, one of the aircraft carriers that participated in the mine hunting exercise in September. Photo by Dan Sagalyn A major international naval exercise last month in and around the Persian Gulf and… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lands on the USS Ponce Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lands on the USS Ponce in Persian Gulf… Continue watching
Oct 15 For Romney, Obama Camps, Ad Wars About Money -- And Buzz It's no surprise that ad buys by presidential candidates and their affiliated groups are costly -- some might even say astronomical -- reaching even greater numbers in swing states, where TV viewers have become intimate with every shape, size and… Continue reading
Oct 15 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: The money behind the ad war this election year Close congressional races, including the battle for a Senate seat in Massachusetts The Syrian war, amid reports that weapons are going to militants linked to Al-qaida And, the… Continue reading
Oct 12 Shields and Brooks on Campaigns, Copyright and Cheating Cyclists By Hari Sreenivasan It's another episode of the Doubleheader, where we talk about the politics of sport and the sport of politics with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Continue reading
Oct 12 Google This 'Malarkey': 'How Old Is' Joe Biden, Paul Ryan By Meena Ganesan The top four search terms during the vice presidential debate. Graphic and data by Google. From real-time fact checkers to live blogs, tweets, gifs and games, the Internet brought in a trove of analysis, context and laughs Thursday… Continue reading