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
Aug 16 Margaret Warner Heads to Iraq to Report on Troop Drawdown By Hari Sreenivasan As we near the end of official combat operations in Iraq at the end of August, the NewsHour's Margaret Warner is headed there for a reporting trip. We caught up with her on the Rundown for a pre-brief on… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Karzai's Call to Expel Contractors Poses Big Logistical Hurdles According to a spokesman, Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants all private security contractors out of Afghanistan within a matter of months. Judy Woodruff discusses the politics, economics and logistics with analysts Matthew Rosenberg and Doug Brooks. Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Karzai Calls for Private Security Contractors to Leave Afghanistan Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has proposed ordering all private security companies out of Afghanistan within four month, saying the jobs should go to Afghan government forces instead. Continue watching
Aug 13 Obama Backs Effort to Build Mosque Near Ground Zero By News Desk President Obama on Friday night weighed in on the debate over whether to build a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less. "As… Continue reading
Aug 13 On Friday's NewsHour... BORDER SECURITY BEEFED UP | On Friday, President Obama signed a $600 million bill to increase funding for border security. Jeffrey Brown talks to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about the effort to increase personnel and equipment along the… Continue reading
Aug 13 Leaning Left and Right: Why Labels Won't Help This Year OK, folks, it's time for another of my periodic forays into definitional politics. To accomplish this, I have to take my own profession to task - and then rise to its defense. The problem: we reach too easily for shorthand. Continue reading
Aug 12 On Thursday's NewsHour... GM POSTS BEST PROFIT IN 6 YEARS | General Motors went bankrupt a year ago and has completely come out of the red with a profit for the second straight quarter. The company made more than $1.3 billion from April… Continue reading