Sep 09 Music Industry Files Hundreds of Lawsuits Against Internet Song Swappers The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Monday filed lawsuits against 261 people across the country for allegedly downloading thousands of copyrighted songs via popular Internet file-sharing networks. Continue reading
Sep 09 Watch Iraq Challenge Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers fielded questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Kwame Holman reports with details. Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch Hitler’s Filmmaker: Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl, the woman who made Adolf Hitler's propaganda films, died in Germany. Jeffrey Brown discusses the impact of her film "The Triumph of the Will" with Claudia Koonz, a professor of history at Duke University. Continue watching
Sep 05 Senate Panel Opposes New Federal Media Rules The Senate Appropriations Committee late Thursday approved an amendment that would prevent federal regulators from letting media companies acquire more television stations and expand their reach of the national television market. Continue reading
Sep 04 Court Temporarily Blocks New Federal Media Rules An appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Federal Communication Commission's new federal rules that would have eased limits on media ownership from taking effect as scheduled Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 02 Iraqi Police Headquarters Bombed, U.S. Soldiers Attacked Even as more than 100,000 Shiites gathered in Najaf to bury a cleric killed in a car bombing last week, an Iraqi policeman was killed and 15 others were wounded in Baghdad when a vehicle exploded outside the city's police… Continue reading
Aug 29 Blair’s Media Chief to Resign Amid Controversy Alastair Campbell, a central figure in the controversy over British prewar Iraq intelligence, announced Friday he would leave his post as Prime Minister Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy. Continue reading
Aug 29 Car Bomb At Iraqi Mosque Kills At Least 75, Including Key Cleric Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim was one of at least 75 people killed when a car bomb exploded at the main mosque in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf during prayers on Friday. Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch Mosque Bombing in Najaf, Iraq New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar reports from Najaf, Iraq following a deadly bombing that killed 75 people, including leading Shiite Muslim leader Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim. Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch North Korea Nuclear Challenge A multinational summit over North Korea's nuclear weapons program ended in Beijing Friday, with North Korea threatening to launch more nuclear tests. Experts discuss the U.S. strategy in dealing with the threat. Continue watching