Oct 08 Listen To Me: Spotlight California President Obama announces the creation of a national monument for Cesar E. Chavez in Keene, Calif. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/GettyImages. President Obama has been heavily campaigning in California over the past two days, with events in Los Angeles and San… Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch Candidates Trade Attacks on Foreign Policy, Handling of Libya Attacks Candidates Trade Attacks on Foreign Policy, Handling of Libya Attacks… Continue watching
Oct 08 Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien, Author of 'Flowers of Hell,' Dies at Age 73 By Tom LeGro Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent 27 years in communist prisons and was the acclaimed author of "Flowers of Hell," died last week in California after a long bout of illness. Continue reading
Oct 08 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: The differences between the presidential candidates on foreign policy A deadly meningitis outbreak, now in nine states The Nobel Prize for discovering how to reprogram adult cells to behave like embryonic stem cells And Salman Rushdie's memoir… Continue reading
Oct 05 Shields and Brooks on Biden vs. Ryan, MLB Playoffs By Hari Sreenivasan It's another episode of the Doubleheader, where we talk about the sport of politics and the politics of sports with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Tonight's semi-serious topic is how our two… Continue reading
Oct 05 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Friday's NewsHour: The jobless rate slides under 8 percent for the first time since January 2009 The hotly contested Senate race in Missouri Mark Shields and David Brooks And, an election story from Venezuela -- where an opposition candidate… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera Wins Baseball's 'Triple Crown' for Batting Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera Wins Baseball's 'Triple Crown' for Batting… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Debate Was 'Watershed' Moment of Multiple Screen Use by Viewers Debate Was 'Watershed' Moment of Multiple Screen Use by Viewers… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Antagonized by Border Violence, Turkey Shells Military Targets Inside Syria Antagonized by Border Violence, Turkey Shells Military Targets Inside Syria… Continue watching
Oct 04 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: The candidates are back on the campaign trail, fresh off their first debate We drill down into two issues from last night: taxes and the deficit Florida voters tell us what they heard And, baseball's first triple… Continue reading