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
Mar 03 On Wednesday's NewsHour... HEALTH REFORM SHOWDOWN | The president stepped up the pressure today for votes on health care reform in the next few weeks. We'll have excerpts of his speech, and then analysis from Ceci Connolly of The Washington Post and Congress… Continue reading
Mar 02 On Tuesday's NewsHour... SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS GUN BANS - The U.S. Supreme Court heard an important argument today over state and local gun regulations. The case involves a handgun ban in Chicago and tests a 2008 decision outlawing the gun law in… Continue reading
Mar 02 Ford Outsells GM for the First Time Since 1998 Ford Motor Company announced Tuesday a 43 percent increase in U.S. sales of light-vehicles for February versus a year ago, edging out rival GM, which posted a 12 percent gain for the month. It is the first time Ford… Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch Afghan Officials Look to Build Stability in Helmand Province Afghan officials are focused on bringing stable governance and public infrastructure services to the former Taliban stronghold of Marjah, after raising the Afghan flag over the city last week. Alex Thomson reports for ITN. Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch NATO Forces End Major Combat Operations in Marjah As combat winds down in the former Taliban stronghold of Marjah in southern Afghanistan, British and American troops are still eyeing Taliban threats. ITN's Alex Thomson reports on a unit of Britain's Grenadier Guards. Continue watching