Sep 17 On Friday's NewsHour... OBAMA APPOINTS NEW CONSUMER CZAR | President Obama appointed Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer financial protection agency. Judy Woodruff talks to banking industry consultant Bert Ely and Professor Lynn Stout about what is… Continue reading
Sep 17 Education Leaders Square Off Over Charters at 'Superman' D.C. Premiere Geoffrey Canada, Arne Duncan and Randi Weingarten. Photo by Tchad J. Moore Three documentaries released this year focus on the troubled American education system. The highest-profile is "Waiting for Superman," directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed the… Continue reading
Sep 16 On Thursday's NewsHour... NEW U.S. POVERTY NUMBERS | The Census Bureau released new economic numbers showing that one in seven Americans lived in poverty last year, and more than 50 million are not insured. Ray Suarez discusses the record poverty numbers and… Continue reading
Sep 16 Weighing the (Very Light) Nuts and Bolts of the X Prize's Edison2 For even the biggest projects, the devil is always in the details. In late August, the NewsHour profiled a small group of race car enthusiasts in Lynchburg, Va., who have made what they say is a revolutionary new… Continue reading
Sep 16 GOP Support for Arms Control Vote Still Up in the Air Updated at 1:15 p.m. The arms reduction, or New START, treaty passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday by a 14-4 vote, but it is still unclear whether the full Senate will vote on the measure this year. The Senate… Continue reading
Sep 16 Ultra-Light Cars Reap Rewards of X Prize Edison2's Very Light Car won the $5 million top prize of the X Prize competition to build an uber-efficient car. The car is engineered to be ultra-light, all the way down to the lug nuts. The Virginia-based… Continue reading
Sep 16 Thursday: Warren to Lead Consumer Protection Bureau; Pope Visits Britain President Obama is expected to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to oversee the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau set up under the financial reform law, avoiding a potentially contentious Senate confirmation hearing. Warren is… Continue reading
Sep 15 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface By Hari Sreenivasan For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there… Continue reading
Sep 15 On Wednesday's NewsHour... PRIMARY WINNERS AND LOSERS | Outsiders and tea party backed candidates posted victories in key primaries around the country on Tuesday. Political editor David Chalian reviews the winners and losers. WHAT DO PRIMARY RESULTS MEAN FOR MIDTERMS? | A… Continue reading
Sep 15 Wednesday: U.S., Iraqi Forces Kill 7; Middle East Peace Talks Continue U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a joint raid in Fallujah early Wednesday, killing seven people, Iraqi officials said. The raid comes two weeks after President Obama declared the end of combat operations in Iraq. Insurgents have intensified their strikes… Continue reading