Aug 27 Russian Officials Blame Terrorists for At Least One Jet Crash By PBS News Hour Traces of explosives were found in the wreckage of one of the two airliners that went down in Russia earlier this week, indicating terrorism was the likely cause of the crash, Russian security officials said Friday. Continue reading
Aug 26 Polls Show Close Presidential Race Just over two months before U.S. voters choose a new president, two new national polls show a close race and an almost evenly divided electorate. Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch Al-Sistani Brokers a Peace Deal with Al-Sadr to End the Fighting in Najaf Iraq's two leading Shiite clerics agreed Thursday to a peace plan that calls for all armed fighters and foreign forces to withdraw from the cities of Najaf and Kuba. Continue watching
Aug 26 Watch Iraq's Leading Shiite Clerics Agree to a Peace Plan Iraq's two leading Shiite clerics agreed today to a peace plan which calls for all armed fighters and foreign forces to withdraw from the cities of Najaf and Kufa. Terence Smith discusses today's developments with New York Times reporter Dexter… Continue watching
Aug 25 Russia Investigates Cause of Twin Plane Crashes Investigators have found the flight data recorders from two planes that crashed within minutes of each other late Tuesday night in Russia, killing all 89 people aboard. Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch The Second Report on Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib Gwen Ifill discusses a second report released by the military Wednesday on the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal with Scott Horton, president of the International League for Human Rights, and retired Army Lt. Gen. John Le Moyne. Continue watching
Aug 24 U.S. Soldier to Plead Guilty in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case Military prosecutors agreed Tuesday to drop some of the charges against the highest-ranking U.S. soldier accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in exchange for a guilty plea, the soldier's lawyer told the Associated Press. Continue reading
Aug 24 Contempt Orders Dropped After Time Reporter Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Case Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper gave a deposition to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the federal investigation into the alleged leaking of a clandestine CIA agent's name to the media, Time magazine announced Tuesday. Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch Pre-trial Hearing of the Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday's pretrial hearing marked the first time any of the nearly 600 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base has faced formal charges. Margaret Warner speaks with New York Times reporter Neil Lewis, who was inside the courtroom. Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch Ineffectual Leadership and Poor Training at Abu Ghraib Tuesday's high-level panel report on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal found that poor training, ineffectual leadership and ignored warning signs all contributed to the now well-documented abuse that occurred there. Gwen Ifill speaks with two members of the commission behind… Continue watching