Apr 20 Jim Lehrer's First Blog From the Rails I come to you from Amtrak #2166 on the way from Washington to New York. Our Acela train is just approaching Baltimore. Being on a train is a most fitting way, it seems to me, to begin the… Continue reading
Apr 20 Judy Woodruff's Lifetime Achievement Award By Hari Sreenivasan We try not to toot our own very often but there are certain exceptions which must be made, and this is one of them. Our own Judy Woodruff receives a lifetime achievement award Tuesday -- along with NPR's Deborah… Continue reading
Apr 20 Civil Rights Icon Dorothy Height Dies; Former Lehman CEO to Face Questions Dorothy Height attends a 2006 congressional hearing about voting rights in the District of Columbia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) The civil rights movement lost its founding matriarch early Tuesday morning. Dorothy I. Height, who fought for most of… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Civil Rights Luminary Dorothy Height Dies at 98 Gwen Ifill remembers civil rights activist Dr. Dorothy Height, who was a leader in both the African-American and women's rights movements. She died Tuesday at age 98. Continue watching
Apr 19 On Monday's NewsHour... VOLCANO ERUPTION IN EUROPE | European officials announced limited air traffic may resume on Tuesday, five days after volcanic ash grounded air traffic around the world. Ray Suarez, who is one of hundreds of thousands of stranded passengers, reports from… Continue reading
Apr 19 Oklahoma City Commemorates 15th Anniversary of Bombing By Anna Shoup Fifteen years ago today at 9:02 a.m., a bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. In total, 168 people died, including 19 children, and more than 600 were injured in what was at the… Continue reading
Apr 19 Monday: Flight Disruptions Continue; Court to Hear Campus Group's Appeal Stranded travelers sleep at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on Monday, as main French airports remain closed. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images.) Lawmakers and aviation officials across Europe faced growing criticism Monday, as air travel across the continent… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch Pope Marks 5th Anniversary Amid Criticism from American Catholics Pope Benedict celebrated his fifth anniversary as head of the Catholic Church under continuing scrutiny over the Church's handling of sexual abuse allegations. Tom Bearden reports from Denver on the reaction of American Catholics to the scandals plaguing the Vatican. Continue watching
Apr 17 Ray Suarez: Life Under a Cloud LONDON | Another day. Another clear blue sky. And another cancelled flight because of what's lurking above that clear blue sky. I was just about to write this post, about the airport closings, the delays, the crammed ferry landings,… Continue reading
Apr 16 Jim Lehrer's 'Super' Office Tour By Hari Sreenivasan I remember walking into Jim Lehrer's office for the first time last summer for my job interview and no amount of preparation could have readied me for the enormous collection of intriguing and distracting bus memorabilia in there. For a… Continue reading