May 07 Watch Report on Military's Growing Number of Sexual Assaults Draws Presidential Rebuke Report on Military's Growing Number of Sexual Assaults Draws Presidential Rebuke… Continue watching
May 07 Watch News Wrap: Three Missing Cleveland Women Found After Being Captives for 10 Years In other news Tuesday, three women who had long been missing were found alive. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were taken between the years 2002 and 2004 and were kept inside a Cleveland home ever since. Also, China… Continue watching
May 06 How Did Watergate Affect You? EmbedVideo(6418, 482, 304); "Covering Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Jamestown's 'Jane' Reflects Grim Reality of America's Early Settlers Jamestown's 'Jane' Reflects Grim Reality of America's Early Settlers… Continue watching
May 02 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: President Barack Obama travels to Mexico with trade, security and immigration on the agenda The fight over access to emergency contraceptives continues as the Obama administration moves to appeal a federal ruling A bloody April for Iraq,… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Archaeologists Make Grisly Discovery About Starvation at Jamestown Settlement According to historians, the people who settled Jamestown, America's first permanent English community, arrived during the worst drought in 800 years. Accounts from the time tell of residents forced to eat dogs, cats, rodents and shoe leather. But a recent… Continue watching
May 01 Watch Strange Bedfellows Join Fight to Keep California Oyster Farm in Operation Strange Bedfellows Join Fight to Keep California Oyster Farm in Operation… Continue watching
May 01 The Antarctic's Ice Paradox Scientists have been trying to create a clearer picture of how the Antarctic responds to climate change. Photo by Nerilie Abram. It's no secret that the ice sheet is melting in Greenland. Last year, the Arctic ice… Continue reading
May 01 The True Un-Hollywood Story of a Sisterhood's Hunt for Bin Laden The HBO documentary "Manhunt" details the grueling work by CIA agents in the search and capture of Osama bin Laden. Photo courtesy of HBO The second anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death brings a revealing new account of what… Continue reading
May 01 The Women Behind the 'Manhunt' for Osama Bin Laden By Larisa Epatko Cindy Storer and Nada Bakos were working for the CIA when the airplanes struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. But the hunt for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden didn't start that day. Continue reading