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
Oct 22 NPR’s Firing of Juan Williams Reignites Ethics, Public Media Funding Debates NPR's firing of Juan Williams this week for remarks about Muslims on Fox News has spawned numerous side discussions among journalists, commentators and politicians about media ethics, views of Muslims in the U.S. and… Continue reading
Oct 22 On Friday’s NewsHour… U.S.-PAKISTAN TIES | The U.S. is rolling out a new aid package for Pakistan. What impact will it have on growing tensions between the countries? Margaret Warner talks to the U.S. special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, for… Continue reading
Oct 22 WikiLeaks Close to Releasing War Documents; Cholera Outbreak in Haiti The WikiLeaks website is close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is "the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history." The Associated Press reports that the documents include hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the… Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch News Wrap: WikiLeaks Releases 400,000 Iraq War Documents In other news Friday, WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 secret U.S. files on the Iraq war, counting more than 15,000 unreported civilian deaths. Also, Haiti is dealing with a deadly cholera outbreak. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Eric Lotz of Operation Blessing… Continue watching