Jul 10 Timeline: Big Three Automakers’ Recent Troubles By PBS News Hour Review some of the key developments and coverage of the auto industry's troubles over the past year in this timeline. Continue reading
Jul 10 GM Emerges From Bankruptcy Protection Facing Tough Car Market By PBS News Hour General Motors Corp. CEO Fritz Henderson announced Friday that the company emerged from bankruptcy and now begins the task of remaking the struggling American carmaker that was once the world's largest and most powerful. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch As Troops Continue Afghan Offensive, Focus Turns to Civilian Outreach U.S. Marines pushed further into the Helmand province in southern Afghanistan this week, as word came of a truck bombing in a village south of Kabul that killed at least two dozen people. A Washington Post reporter gives an update… Continue watching
Jul 08 Why Does the London Tube Charge More If You Use a Paper Ticket? Robert Frank: Why does the public transport system in London charge significantly more for a tube or bus journey if you buy a paper ticket than it does if you use their Oyster prepaid card? In most cities… Continue reading
Jul 07 China Imposes Curfew to Fight Ethnic Unrest By PBS News Hour The Chinese government declared a curfew Tuesday in northwestern China to combat the continued ethnic violence erupting between Han Chinese and Muslim Uighurs. Continue reading
Jul 06 Watch Washington Post Under Fire Over Pay-for-access Plan Washington Post publisher Katherine Weymouth apologized to readers for a controversy over the newspaper's plan for a series of corporate-sponsored policy dinners at Weymouth's home. Media experts mull the implications of the scandal. Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch Other News: Seven U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan In other news, seven U.S. troops were killed in deadly attacks across Afghanistan, and 165 people have been killed during riots in China. Continue watching
Jul 06 Robert McNamara, Defense Chief During Vietnam War, Dies at 93 By PBS News Hour Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, known as the leading architect of the Vietnam War, died on Monday. He was 93. Continue reading
Jul 06 Obama Leadership Faces Test at Moscow Summit By Admin, PBS News Hour President Barack Obama opened a U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow Monday with a prediction of "extraordinary progress" in the areas of nuclear arms reduction and other key bilateral issues. Continue reading
Jul 06 Judge OKs Plan to Sell GM Assets; Appeal Looms By PBS News Hour A New York judge has approved General Motors Corp.'s bankruptcy sale in a move that will allow the company's most-profitable assets to quickly emerge from bankruptcy protection under government ownership. Continue reading