Apr 16 Marc Ambinder's Personal Journey in the 'Fat Nation' By Hari Sreenivasan Marc Ambinder and I worked together at ABC News for a few years. He was one of the rising stars in their political unit, and has since moved through National Journal's Hotline and now is planted firmly at… Continue reading
Apr 16 Twitter Hopes to Turn Tweets Into Profit Twitter may be one of the world's fastest-growing social media tools, but the question of how the 140-character micro-blogging site could turn tweets into dollar signs has gone unanswered since its launch in 2006. Until now. The San Francisco-based company… Continue reading
Apr 16 Friday: Europe's Travel Delays Worsen; Same-sex Partners Get Hospital Rights A woman at Erfurt Airport in Germany reads about the volcano that is disrupting travel across Europe. (Photo by Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images.) The wide-scale disruption of air travel across much of Europe only got worse on Friday as… Continue reading
Apr 15 On Thursday's NewsHour... VOLCANIC ASH GROUNDS FLIGHTS | A giant cloud of ash from a glacial volcano in Iceland grounded hundreds of flights across northern Europe on Thursday. Jim Lehrer gets a report from Independent Television News about when air traffic might resume. Continue reading
Apr 15 Full Video: Fla. Residents, Politicians Talk Taxes and Debt at Town Hall By News Desk TAMPA, Fla. | At a town hall meeting hosted by the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, residents of West Central Florida asked federal, state and local government officials about the recession, partisanship, government spending and more. You can now watch the full… Continue reading
Apr 15 Thursday: Tax Day; Obama to Outline Space Plan; Benjamin Hooks Dies at 85 By Jason Breslow Felipe Castro advertises tax preparation services in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.) It's April 15, which means, of course, it's tax day. The Big Money marks the occasion with a look at the five worst parts of… Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch News Wrap: Attacks Kill 11 in Southern Afghanistan In other news on Thursday, a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan killed seven foreign workers in the southern city of Kandahar and rescue workers in China continued the search for survivors of Wednesday's powerful earthquakes. Continue watching
Apr 14 On Wednesday's NewsHour... SENATE BRACES FOR FINANCIAL REFORM FIGHT | President Obama made a case for overhauling the nation's financial system today, in an attempt to win action on a Senate reform bill. For perspective on the prospects of a Senate bill, Jeffrey… Continue reading
Apr 13 On Tuesday's NewsHour... NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT | Jeffrey Brown reports on the second day of the nuclear security summit in Washington, where President Obama called for new safeguards against nuclear terrorism. NEGOTIATING NUCLEAR ARMS REDUCTIONS | For perspective on the nuclear security summit… Continue reading