Feb 12 Watch Media Battle Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, launched an unsolicited bid to merge with Walt Disney. Jim Lehrer and media experts discuss the implications of a Comcast-Disney union for consumers and whether the federal government should try to intercept a… Continue watching
Feb 11 Baghdad Car Bomb Kills At Least 47 in Second Deadly Attack A suicide attacker detonated a car packed with explosives in a crowd of Iraqis outside a Baghdad army recruiting center Wednesday, killing at least 47 people in the second bombing in two days targeting Iraqis working with U.S. occupation forces. Continue reading
Feb 11 Comcast Makes Unsolicited Bid for Disney In a move that could transform the media industry, Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, launched an unsolicited bid Wednesday to merge with troubled entertainment behemoth Walt Disney. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch Newsmaker: Condoleezza Rice President Bush said Wednesday that no more countries should have the ability to enrich or process nuclear material. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice talks to Ray Suarez about the president's speech and the situation in Iraq, where some 50 people… Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch Indecency on the Air In the wake of the now infamous Super Bowl half-time show, the head of the Federal Communication Commission and president of Viacom testified before Congress about how to tackle public indecency on broadcast television. Tom Bearden reports on the debate… Continue watching
Feb 10 Car Bomb Explodes South of Baghdad Killing Dozens A car bomb killed dozens of people when it exploded Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad where people were lined up to apply for jobs. Continue reading
Feb 10 Police Reclaim Towns From Haitian Rebels By PBS News Hour Haitian police this week were able to reclaim two of 11 towns taken over by armed rebels in protests that have been broiling over the past five days aimed at ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. Continue reading
Feb 10 Watch Report From Baghdad American efforts to train additional Iraqi police officers were jarred by a fatal bombing at a police station 30 miles south of Baghdad today. Gwen Ifill gets additional information on the bombing from New York Times correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman in… Continue watching
Feb 09 Violent, Antigovernment Protests Spread Through Haiti By PBS News Hour Pressure for Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to end his troubled rule escalated over the weekend as growing opposition turned to mass uprisings in several of the island nation's cities. Continue reading
Feb 06 Pres. Bush Forms Bipartisan Iraq Intelligence Review Panel By Admin, PBS News Hour Bowing to pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Bush on Friday named seven people to sit on a bipartisan independent commission to investigate U.S. intelligence failures in prewar Iraq. Continue reading