Mar 08 U.S. Military Deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom Top 1,000 By Larisa Epatko U.S. military fatalities in the eight-year Afghan war have swelled over the past few years. When taking into account worldwide military operations in Operation Enduring Freedom, U.S. deaths have passed the 1,000 mark, according to the Department of Defense, The… Continue reading
Mar 08 On Monday's NewsHour... On the PBS NewsHour this Monday: IRAQ ELECTIONS | The votes are being counted in Iraq's Parliamentary elections, and the authorities in Baghdad announced today that turnout topped 60 percent. Gwen Ifill reports tonight on what's at stake in the… Continue reading
Mar 08 Colorado Moves to Steer Aid Toward Closed Car Dealers A lot of new car dealers have been looking for other work in the past year in the wake of the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. In Denver, GM told several local dealers to start winding down their… Continue reading
Mar 05 On Friday's NewsHour... UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS | Friday's monthly look at unemployment was considered good news, as the jobless rate remained unchanged. But the jobless rate for blacks and Latinos is much higher than the average. We take a closer look at racial… Continue reading
Mar 05 Prime Minister Defends British Involvement in Iraq War British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stood by his country's involvement in the Iraq war Friday, refuting charges that the government failed to fully fund the 2003 invasion. Brown called the decision to join the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq… Continue reading
Mar 05 Newspapers Making Public Data More Understandable for Readers For many citizens, public data often have been difficult to find and decipher. Last year, Data.Gov was launched with the stated purpose of increasing "public access to high-value, machine-readable datasets," part of a wider effort to make government more… Continue reading
Mar 04 Study Reasserts That Asteroid Blast Wiped Out the Dinosaurs About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand. Continue reading
Mar 04 On Thursday's NewsHour... ELECTION VIOLENCE IN IRAQ - Bombs ripped through parts of Baghdad today as early voting began for Sunday's parliamentary elections. Ray Suarez narrates a report, and Jim Lehrer talks to Feisal Istrabadi, who served as Iraq's deputy ambassador… Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch In Egypt, Religious Tensions Erupt in Violence Tensions are on the rise in Egypt between Muslim and Coptic Christian factions and these religious divisions have begun to escalate to violence. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Cairo. Continue watching
Mar 03 A New Judicial Approach for Veterans in Trouble With the Law Nic Gray was a model soldier. He made staff sergeant in an unusually short period of time, and served honorably in Iraq. When his enlistment was up, he moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., to start a business and get… Continue reading