Sep 14 Delta, Northwest File for Bankruptcy Protection By PBS News Hour Delta and Northwest filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, illustrating the problem airliners are having with soaring oil prices and competition from smaller carriers. Continue reading
Sep 14 Coordinated Explosions in Iraq Kill More Than 150 By PBS News Hour At least a dozen explosions hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding more than 500 in a series of attacks for which al-Qaida has claimed responsibility. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch Burst of Violence in Iraq At least a dozen explosions hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad Wednesday, killing more than 150 people. A New York Times reporter based in Iraq talks about the latest casualties and violence in Baghdad. Continue watching
Sep 09 Base Closing Commission Submits Report Amid Legal Wrangling By PBS News Hour The commission appointed to make base closing recommendations to President Bush submitted its report to the White House Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 07 National Leaders Mourn as Chief Justice is Buried By Admin, PBS News Hour President Bush and the remaining members of the Supreme Court led hundreds of mourners in honoring Chief Justice William Rehnquist as he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday. Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch Families of the Fallen A conversation among four parents who are coping with the loss of their sons, American soldiers who died in Iraq. Continue watching
Sep 04 Chief Justice William Rehnquist Dies at 80 By Admin, PBS News Hour Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose conservative judicial philosophy guided the high court for nearly 20 years, succumbed to thyroid cancer Saturday evening. He was 80 years old. Continue reading
Sep 04 Biography: Chief Justice William Rehnquist By Admin, PBS News Hour Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who steered the high court through groundbreaking legal and political disputes as well as guided it through a docket-full of potentially pivotal and controversial cases in recent court terms, died on Sept. 3, 2005. Continue reading
Sep 01 Military Orders Added National Guard Presence in Gulf Coast By PBS News Hour Some 22,000 National Guard troops will join forces already deployed along the Gulf Coast in an effort to bring security and calm to the region in what officials predict may be the largest military response to a natural disaster in… Continue reading
Aug 31 Hundreds of Iraqis Die in Stampede Near Shiite Shrine By PBS News Hour More than 650 and possibly as many as 1,000 people died Wednesday during a religious procession toward a Shiite shrine in Baghdad when rumors that a suicide bomber was about to attack caused a stampede on a bridge. Continue reading