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
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