Dec 09 Senate Republicans Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal By News Desk File photo by Getty Images Senate Republicans blocked White House-backed legislation Thursday afternoon that would have repealed the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allowed gay and lesbian troops to serve openly. The 57-40 test vote was three… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch News Wrap: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Fails in Senate In other news Tuesday, an attempt to repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell policy fell three votes shy of advancing in the Senate, but proponents have vowed another attempt in the coming weeks. Continue watching
Dec 09 On Thursday’s NewsHour… TAX CUTS | With just three weeks to go before Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire and President Obama urging Democratic lawmakers to accept a compromise he struck with the GOP, House Democrats rejected the tax deal in its… Continue reading
Dec 09 Join Hari Sreenivasan at 2 p.m. ET Thursday for Live Chat on Reddit Did you ever want to know more about correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, the man behind the NewsHour broadcast's daily news wrap and many of the video reports on our website? Hari will answer questions on… Continue reading
Dec 09 North Korea Welcomes Chinese Envoy, Election Protests Continue in Haiti South Korean marines patrol on Yeonpyeong island in the disputed waters of the Yellow Sea on Dec, 6, 2010. (Kim Jae-Myung/AFP/Getty Images) China stepped up rhetoric in response to U.S. criticism that it has not done enough to respond… Continue reading
Dec 09 Senate to Consider Tax Cuts, DREAM Act in Day Packed With Votes Supporters of the DREAM Act recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol on Wednesday. The bill would allow a path to citizenship for children who entered the country illegally. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call. The Senate… Continue reading
Dec 09 TEDWomen Summit Highlights How Females Are Reshaping the Future They're the presentations that your friends forward you through an e-mail or social network, the ones where you drift off for 18 minutes into the dream worlds of scientists, the powerful stories of social activists and or talks by plain,… Continue reading
Dec 08 Mideast Peace Talks Stall, Adm. Mullen Criticizes China Over North Korea Children of Israeli settlers walk past the site for housing units in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Photo by Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said talks with Israel had hit a major roadblock because of… Continue reading
Dec 07 Elizabeth Edwards Dies of Cancer at 61 File photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, died this morning, according to Associated Press reports quoting a family friend. Doctors advised against further treatment of her cancer, which had spread to… Continue reading
Dec 06 WikiLeaks Confronts More Legal, Funding and Hacker Challenges In the week since WikiLeaks began releasing a trove of diplomatic cables, the site has been attacked by hackers and senators, been kicked off Amazon's cloud-hosting… Continue reading