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
Aug 31 Watch Fatal Stampede in Baghdad Following a report on the stampede in Baghdad that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Shiite pilgrims, Los Angeles Times reporter Borezoo Daragahi provides an update from Baghdad. Continue watching
Aug 26 Pentagon Suffers Dual Setbacks in Plan to Reorganize Air Defenses By PBS News Hour The Pentagon's plan for reorganizing the nation's Air Force suffered two major blows Friday as the base closing commission voted to keep open two bases that officials wanted to shutter. Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch Brac Commissioners On the final day of military base negotiations, two Base and Realignment commissioners discuss the base closing process and the apolitical nature of their work. Continue watching