Jul 01 Watch Russian Media Crackdown Terence Smith discusses the recent closure of Russia's last independent TV broadcaster, TVS, and the Russian parliament's proposed bill to restrict press coverage of the upcoming elections with Ellen Mickiewicz and Yevgeny Kiselyov. Continue watching
Jun 30 BBC Reporter Threatens to Sue British Minister for Libel BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan said he would sue Phil Woolas, the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, over the allegation that he "misled" a parliamentary inquiry into Prime Minister Tony Blair's intelligence to make its case for the Iraq… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch In Memoriam: Katherine Hepburn Four-time Oscar winner Katherine Hepburn died Sunday. Her movie career included The Philadelphia Story, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The African Queen. Continue watching
Jun 27 U.S. Troops Face New Wave of Attacks; Postwar Casualties Rise At least three U.S. military personnel have been killed and 13 wounded in Iraq since Thursday, as new reports emerge of another shooting of a U.S. soldier in Baghdad Friday. Continue reading
Jun 27 Strom Thurmond, Longest Serving Senator, Dies At 100 Strom Thurmond, a maverick Dixiecrat-turned-Republican who led the longest single filibuster in U.S. history and served in the U.S. Senate nearly 50 years, died late Thursday at the age of 100. Continue reading
Jun 24 Six British Soldiers Killed, Eight Injured in Iraq By PBS News Hour "It's normally very quiet down here," British Army Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt in Basra told the Associated Press. "We've been here nearly two months now and this is the first time people have been deliberately, consciously shooting at us."… Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch Growing Danger in Iraq Margaret Warner follows up with Newsweek's Baghdad correspondent Rod Nordland. Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch Editorial Views Terence Smith gauges the public's reaction to the Supreme Court's affirmative action decisions with four editorial page editors from across the country. Continue watching
Jun 23 Russia’s Largest Private TV Station Shuts Down The Russian Media Ministry ended broadcasts of financially troubled TVS, the country's last independent national television station, and replaced it with a new state-run sports channel. Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch Junk E-mail and Spam Wars Junk e-mail, known commonly as spam, continues to flood inboxes throughout the country. Terence Smith examines the continued effort to block the deluge of unwanted e-mail. Continue watching