Apr 22 Thursday: Obama to Call for Wall Street Reform; Most European Flights Resume President Barack Obama speaks at Cooper Union in 2008 as a Democratic candidate. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Updated 12:00pm ET You can find the full text of President Obama's speech on Wall Street reform here. Posted… Continue reading
Apr 21 Experts Voice Pros and Cons of F-35, Military's Newest Fighter By Larisa Epatko The Pentagon's forthcoming warplane, the Joint Strike Fighter, is intended for use across the different branches of the military but has come under fire in Congress for skyrocketing costs and delays. Continue reading
Apr 21 Gulf Coast Oil Leak Widget By Chris Amico TICKER & VIDEO: Latest News on the Gulf Coast Oil Spill. Continue reading
Apr 21 On Wednesday's NewsHour... SENATE LOOKS TO REGULATE DERIVATIVES | Lawmakers are moving closer to passing sweeping financial regulations, as a Senate panel approved new rules for the derivatives market. Jeffrey Brown talks to business law experts Lynn Stout of UCLA and… Continue reading
Apr 21 'Too Fat to Fight': Report Says School Lunches a Threat to National Security A new report says that 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to join the military. Now, the group of retired military officers that prepared the report is asking Congress to… Continue reading
Apr 21 Jim Lehrer on the Road: Update From New York City An update from New York City: Last night's party for "Super" was, in fact, super. The MacNeils and the Quinlans created a wonderful event. The president of the Borough of Brooklyn even made me an honorary… Continue reading
Apr 21 As U.K. Airspace Opens, Hope Returns for Stranded Travelers By Ray Suarez Well, I'm still in London. The sky is still bright blue and beautiful, the weather is unseasonably fine for April, and the airspace over Britain is finally streaked with the occasional airplane after a five-day shut down of… Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch Pentagon's F-35 Fighter Under Fire in Congress The Defense Department is waging a battle over the increasing price of its new stealth aircraft program. Kwame Holman reports on why the Joint Strike Fighter program, which was supposed to save the military money, is taking fire in Washington. Continue watching
Apr 20 On Tuesday's NewsHour... FLIGHTS RESUME IN EUROPE | Some stranded travelers in Europe got relief as air traffic resumed over Europe for the first time in nearly a week. Gwen Ifill talks to Ray Suarez about the thousands of passengers who remain stranded… Continue reading
Apr 20 Remembering Dorothy Height I was always thoroughly intimidated in Dorothy Height's presence. It's not because she was regal or holier-than-thou. It's that she was neither of those things. And somehow, she should have been. Could easily have been. In the news business,… Continue reading