Oct 26 Bosnian Divide Extends to Cancer Care By Kira Kay My assignment in Bosnia this past month was two-fold: examine the surprisingly high levels of breast cancer in the country and cover the significant national elections underway. I soon discovered that the two stories would intertwine -- that the… Continue reading
Oct 26 Tsunami Kills 113 in Indonesia; Former Aide to Hussein Sentenced to Hang Updated 10:36 a.m. ET The AP reports that the death toll from a tsunami in western Indonesia has risen to at least 113 people. The new figure comes from the country's health ministry crisis center. Posted 10:20 a.m. ET At… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Documents on Iraq War Tens of thousands of documents about the war in Iraq are now public record after being posted by the website known as WikiLeaks. Margaret Warner has the story. Continue watching
Oct 25 On Monday’s NewsHour… POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: DAVID CHALIAN | Candidates are just eight days shy of election day and the final week of campaigning is here. NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian walks through the latest developments of the 2010 midterm elections. HOMEOWNERS STRUGGLE… Continue reading
Oct 25 Guantanamo Detainee Khadr Pleads Guilty to All Counts By Larisa Epatko Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of throwing a hand grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to all five terrorism and murder charges on Monday. Continue reading
Oct 25 Monday: Haiti’s Cholera Death Toll Hits 250; More Massacres in Mexico The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic topped 250 over the weekend as thousands more remained hospitalized and officials braced for the disease to spread into densely populated slums in urban areas. The Wall Street Journal reports:… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch Reaction to Newly Public Iraq War Documents The media is combing through confidential documents on the Iraq War released by the website WikiLeaks, including accounts of abuse against Iraqi civilians and "hard evidence" that the United States turned a blind eye. Margaret Warner gets perspectives on the… Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch Juan Williams Firing: What Speech Is OK as Journalism Evolves? NPR's decision to fire news analyst Juan Williams this week over controversial comments he made on Fox News have raised big questions on media, ethics and opinion. Jeffrey Brown talks to a panel of experts for insight. Continue watching
Oct 22 The Doubleheader: Shields, Brooks on Anita Hill’s Voicemail and NFL Tackling By Hari Sreenivasan Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the newsroom for yet another edition of The Doubleheader. We talked about Anita Hill and the latest developments in a saga that began, oh so many… Continue reading
Oct 22 New WikiLeaks Cache Reveals More on Iraqi War Deaths, Detainee Abuse Analysis of a new cache of secret documents pertaining to the Iraq war surfaced Friday via the WikiLeaks website. Nearly 400,000 documents were obtained by the WikiLeaks organization and provided to several media organizations, including The New York Times,… Continue reading