Apr 30 Opinion: 40 Years After Roe v. Wade, A Pro-Life Perspective On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, we revisit the hot-button issue of abortion and debate its move from federal courts to state governments. Our guests are Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, and Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL… Continue reading
Apr 30 Opinion: 40 Years After Roe v. Wade, A Pro-Choice Perspective On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, we revisit the hot-button issue of abortion, and debate its move from federal courts to state governments. Our guests are Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, and Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL… Continue reading
Apr 30 Obama: US Still Not Sure Who Used Chemical Weapons in Syria EmbedVideo(6340, 482, 304); President Barack Obama fielded questions at a White House news briefing Tuesday. Members of the press asked him about Syria, health care, immigration, Guantanamo and Jason Collins. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday… Continue reading
Apr 30 Special Elections Will Test Democrats in Mass., Sanford in S.C. Rep. Ed Markey faces Rep. Stephen Lynch in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Photo by Freddy Wheeler/WEBN-TV via Flickr. Six months ago, Massachusetts voters were in the middle of one of the fiercest Senate battles of the election season. Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 100 Days In, President Obama Holds News Conference on Second Term Priorities From the White House briefing room President Barack Obama joked and jabbed with the press and promised to keep pushing his priorities, including immigration reform and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Kwame Holman reports on what the president said… Continue watching
Apr 29 Little Consensus Among Lawmakers on Next Steps With Syria President Obama discusses the crisis Syria with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office last week. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. There appeared to be widespread agreement among lawmakers Sunday that the U.S. must… Continue reading
Apr 26 Shields and Brooks on Bush Legacy, NFL Draft By Hari Sreenivasan The musings of syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks return in this, another episode of the Doubleheader, where we tackle the sport of politics and the politics of sport. Our captains of civility… Continue reading
Apr 26 Judy Woodruff Recounts Day President Reagan Was Shot EmbedVideo(6320, 482, 304); March 30, 1981 was a routine day for Judy Woodruff as she traveled with the press pool to cover a speech by President Ronald Reagan, two months into his presidency, at the Washington Hilton. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs… Continue watching
Apr 26 Non-Citizens Would Earn Legal Status Under Immigration Bill, Meissner Says EmbedVideo(6319, 482, 304); Doris Meissner, director of the Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says the current proposed immigration bill offers "earned legalization" rather than amnesty. Provisions in an immigration reform bill introduced earlier this month would… Continue reading