May 16 Bomb Attacks Kill At Least 24 in Morocco Up to five explosions ripped through a commercial district of Casablanca, Morocco Friday night, killing as many as 24 people and wounding several others. Continue reading
May 16 FCC Chairman Denies Requests to Postpone Vote Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell on Thursday said he would proceed with the June 2 vote to revise media ownership restrictions, declining a request by two commissioners for a one-month delay. Continue reading
May 16 Watch In Memoriam, June Carter Cash Jeffrey Brown remembers a leading lady of country music who died on May 16. Continue watching
May 15 U.S. Army Arrests 200 Iraqis Near Tikrit Units from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry division swept through a small village near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit Thursday, taking some 200 Iraqi prisoners, including a man who was on the coalition's "most wanted" list. Continue reading
May 15 Watch Showdown at the FCC: Media Companies Expansion The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on changes that would make it easier for large media companies to expand further. Terence Smith hosts a debate between Gene Kimmelman of the Consumers Union and B. Robert Okun, vice president… Continue watching
May 14 Second Suicide Attack in Chechnya Kills At Least 14 A second suicide attack in Chechnya killed at least 14 and wounded dozens Wednesday, two days after a truck bomb killed at least 59 people in the northern region of the troubled Russian republic. Continue reading
May 14 Watch Search for Security in Iraq As efforts to rebuild and secure postwar Iraq take shape, Elizabeth Farnsworth travels with a British patrol in the southern city of Basra and reports on the continuing struggle to return services and public order to an area torn by… Continue watching
May 13 Bombings Rock Riyadh, At Least 20 Killed Three nearly simultaneous suicide bombings hit residential housing complexes in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh where many foreigners live. The bombings early Tuesday morning killed some 20 people including at least seven Americans. Continue reading
May 13 Senators Examine Media Ownership Ahead of FCC Ruling Senators on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to use caution as the agency prepared for a final vote on June 2 on whether to ease media ownership regulations. Continue reading
May 13 Death Toll in Chechnya Truck Bombing Rises A truck loaded with explosives ripped apart a government building in northern Chechnya Monday morning, killing at least 54 people and wounding dozens more according to local authorities. Continue reading