Dec 13 Secret Documents Add to Suspicions About Myanmar's Nuclear Aspirations Buddhist monk in Yangon, also known as Rangoon, Myanmar. (Drn/Stringer/Getty Images) Secret cables from the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon, released by the web site WikiLeaks, have added to long-standing suspicions about Myanmar's nuclear ambitions and its alleged covert… Continue reading
Dec 13 British Resident Suspected in Sweden Bombing, North Korea Warns of War Swedish policemen and volunteers patrol on Dec. 13, 2010 at the corner of Bryggaregatan and Drottninggatan street in central Stockholm, where a car bomb targeted Christmas shoppers Saturday. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) Swedish police said they are "98 percent… Continue reading
Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading
Dec 10 On Friday's NewsHour: Nobel Peace Prize, Shields and Brooks NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN ABSENTIA | Liu Xiaobo, serving an 11-year sentence in China for releasing a pro-democracy document, was honored at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. Jeffrey Brown has more. NEWS WRAP | Hari Sreenivasan recap's the… Continue reading
Dec 10 Nobel Chairman Calls for Liu Xiaobo's Release, Peace Prize Awarded in Absentia The Nobel Peace Prize committee honored Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence in China for his 2008 document calling for democracy, at a ceremony in Norway. Xiaobo was represented on the stage by an empty chair. Nobel Chairman… Continue reading
Dec 09 Senate Republicans Block 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal By News Desk File photo by Getty Images Senate Republicans blocked White House-backed legislation Thursday afternoon that would have repealed the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allowed gay and lesbian troops to serve openly. The 57-40 test vote was three… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch News Wrap: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Fails in Senate In other news Tuesday, an attempt to repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell policy fell three votes shy of advancing in the Senate, but proponents have vowed another attempt in the coming weeks. Continue watching
Dec 09 On Thursday's NewsHour... TAX CUTS | With just three weeks to go before Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire and President Obama urging Democratic lawmakers to accept a compromise he struck with the GOP, House Democrats rejected the tax deal in its… Continue reading
Dec 09 Join Hari Sreenivasan at 2 p.m. ET Thursday for Live Chat on Reddit Did you ever want to know more about correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, the man behind the NewsHour broadcast's daily news wrap and many of the video reports on our website? Hari will answer questions on… Continue reading
Dec 09 North Korea Welcomes Chinese Envoy, Election Protests Continue in Haiti South Korean marines patrol on Yeonpyeong island in the disputed waters of the Yellow Sea on Dec, 6, 2010. (Kim Jae-Myung/AFP/Getty Images) China stepped up rhetoric in response to U.S. criticism that it has not done enough to respond… Continue reading