Jul 27 Tuesday: BP's Hayward Exits as CEO as Company Reports $17B Loss By Maureen Hoch After days of speculation, BP made it official early Tuesday: embattled CEO Tony Hayward will step down from his post and be replaced by American Robert Dudley on Oct. 1. The news comes as the company, which is still… Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch Wartime Security Breach of Afghan War Files Concerns Senators Jim Lehrer speaks with Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Republican Kit Bond of Missouri about national security concerns about WikiLeaks publishing sensitive information about the Afghan war and potentially helping enemies. Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch WikiLeaks Files' 'Potential Threat' Continues to Rattle Washington Fallout from the WikiLeaks publication of Afghan war documents continued to reverberate in Washington Tuesday with the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff calling it a "potential threat" to American lives. It was also center stage in debate in Congress… Continue watching
Jul 26 On Monday's NewsHour... WIKILEAKS RELEASES AFGHAN RECORDS | More than 75,000 classified documents detailing five years of war in Afghanistan were released by the website WikiLeaks and reported on by major news organizations Monday. Jeffrey Brown talks to Steve Coll, president of… Continue reading
Jul 26 What New Library of Congress Rules Mean for Mashups, iPhone Jailbreaking People who own iPhones will now be able to crack electronic locks on them, allowing them to install applications that might not have Apple's blessing, according to new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government. The primary source for all… Continue reading
Jul 26 Khmer Rouge Prison Warden to Serve 19 Years for War Crimes By Jada F. Smith The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal charged with investigating the notorious "killing fields" regime in Cambodia handed down its first verdict Monday, sentencing the warden of a violent Khmer Rouge prison to 35 years in prison -- a sentence that… Continue reading
Jul 26 Election Day Bombing Mars Thailand Vote A bomb planted at a bus stop killed one person and wounded nine others in Bangkok Sunday, as voting for a closely-watched election closed. Continue reading
Jul 26 Monday: Thousands of Documents Leaked on Afghan War; BP Eyes Leadership Shift More than 90,000 classified U.S. documents detailing the war in Afghanistan have been published online by the whistle-blower group WikiLeaks, offering a newly detailed window of insight into the U.S. military's struggle to confront the Taliban and the… Continue reading
Jul 26 The Morning Line: Leaked Afghanistan Field Reports to Shape Political War Debate At Home By Terence Burlij The release of 92,000 classified reports by the website WikiLeaks paints a familiar and bleak picture of just how difficult and convoluted achieving success in Afghanistan will be for the American military. These reports will shine a bright light… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch The Purpose and People of WikiLeaks Daily Beast contributor Philip Shenon, a former New York Times investigative reporter, speaks with Judy Woodruff about who and what is behind the online whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Continue watching