Aug 19 Thursday: Combat Troops Leaving Iraq; Jobless Claims Reach 500,000 Seven years and five months after the start of the war in Iraq, the last American combat troops have been making their way out of the country. Troops from the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, moved across the… Continue reading
Aug 19 The Morning Line: Misconceptions About Obama’s Faith on the Rise By David Chalian It's quite easy to imagine President Obama itching to get up to Martha's Vineyard with his family Thursday afternoon and kick back for 10 days. He's got a relentless unemployment rate to battle, an upcoming fall campaign season in which… Continue reading
Aug 18 On Wednesday’s NewsHour… PAKISTAN'S GOVERNMENT AND FLOODS | Flooding has displaced 12 percent of Pakistan's population so far and at least 1,500 people have died. As the need for aid worsens, new questions are being raised on whether the government can handle… Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch Debate Lingers Around Proposed Mosque Near Ground Zero The debate over whether a mosque should be built near Ground Zero continues to stir passions. President Obama said he had "no regrets" for weighing in on the controversy Wednesday. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from columnists Eugene Robinson and Ross… Continue watching
Aug 18 Mom Says the Darndest Things: 10 Questions for Kelly Oxford By Tom LeGro Kelly Oxford started writing an anonymous blog more than seven years ago after spending a lot of time online reading sites about child-rearing. What she found were places where fellow mothers could communicate with each other, but they just weren't… Continue reading
Aug 17 Bobby Thomson’s Famous Home Run: ‘Scripted Like a Movie’ For generations of baseball fans, Bobby Thomson's dramatic 9th-inning home run off pitcher Ralph Branca in the deciding game of the 1951 National League playoffs remains one of the sport's most iconic moments. With the announcement that Thomson died… Continue reading
Aug 17 The College Mindset List: No Cursive Skills or Cold War Fears There are lists we like - the New York Times Best Sellers List comes to mind - and lists we can live without. Now comes a list guaranteed to make most of us feel -- old. But still worth checking… Continue reading
Aug 17 CIA Tapes Found Beneath Desk Show Questioning of 9/11 Plotter The CIA has tapes of Yemeni national Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the 9/11 plotters being held in Guantanamo, being interrogated in a secret Moroccan prison in 2002, The Associated Press has reported. The tapes were discovered by a… Continue reading
Aug 17 Tuesday: Bomber Kills 61 in Iraq; Aid Slow to Reach Pakistanis By Tom LeGro A man receives treatment at a Baghdad hospital after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment center in the Iraqi capital. Photo by Khalil al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images. A suicide bomber killed 61 people Tuesday at an… Continue reading
Aug 16 On Monday’s NewsHour… HIGH RISK Of WATERBORNE DISEASES IN PAKISTAN | More rain continues to pour down in Pakistan as the country deals with one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory. With a shortage of immediate aid, some worry that victims… Continue reading