Aug 09 Monday: Drilling to Resume on Oil Relief Well; Aid Group to Stay in Afghanistan After Killings Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday that cement forced down the top of BP's blown-out well last week has hardened enough so that workers can begin drilling the final 100 feet of the relief well and seal… Continue reading
Aug 09 The Morning Line: Deep in the Heart of Texas After a bachelor weekend that included playing a round of golf with old friends on Saturday and basketball with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony on Sunday, President Obama welcomes the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints to the… Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch Dangers Limiting Aid Groups’ Ability to Work Outside Kabul After a group of 10 aid workers and their guides were killed in Afghanistan, Jeffrey Brown gets the latest on the slayings and the dangerous work of nonprofits in the country from Barmak Pazhwak of the U.S. Institute of Peace… Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch Aid Group Says It’s Staying Put in Afghanistan Despite Deadly Ambush International Assistance Mission, a Christian charity with deep roots in Afghanistan, says it has no plans to leave the war-torn country, even after several of its workers and Afghan guides were killed in a Taliban ambush. Gwen Ifill has the… Continue watching
Aug 06 On Friday’s NewsHour… JOB NUMBERS: UNEMPLOYMENT STILL GRIM | The latest job numbers show the economy is struggling to get back on track. In July, the government cut 131 thousand temporary Census jobs and only about 71 thousand jobs were gained by the… Continue reading
Aug 06 Retiring ‘Mission Accomplished’ and the Long Hot Summer Perhaps Oprah brought the president a cake when she joined his tight circle of Chicago friends for a birthday dinner this week. That's more of a celebration than he has been able to have for any of his other landmark… Continue reading
Aug 05 On Thursday’s NewsHour… THE FUTURE OF THE COURT WITH KAGAN | The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court Wednesday. Kagan will be the third female judge on the Supreme Court joining justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. Ray Suarez looks… Continue reading
Aug 05 Missouri’s Primary Results: the Effects of the Tea Party and Pizza Coupons By Dante Chinni As this blog has noted in many posts, despite the media coverage of the political movement known as the tea party, it is difficult to tell what its impact is or will be in the… Continue reading
Aug 04 On Wednesday’s NewsHour… UPDATE ON OIL CONTAINMENT | BP reports the static kill is a success so far. Gulf Coast residents question a new government report that states around three-quarters of the spilled oil is already gone. Judy Woodruff gets an update on… Continue reading
Aug 04 Nuclear Arms Control Treaty Vote on Hold as Kerry Seeks Bipartisan Support The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which originally planned to take up the nuclear arms control -- or New START -- treaty on Wednesday, decided to postpone a vote until after Congress' August recess. In April, President Barack Obama and Russian… Continue reading