Mar 17 Watch U.N. Security Council Passes Sweeping Measure to Rein in Gadhafi After Hesitation, U.N. Approves Sweeping Measure to Rein in Gadhafi… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch News Wrap: Police in Yemen Raid Protesters’ Camps, Injuring 80 In other news Thursday, police in Yemen attacked protesters' camps and injured more than 80. In Bahrain, police arrested six leading activists in the opposition movement. In the U.S., the Senate approved a spending bill that includes $6 billion in… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch More Uncertainty at Hobbled Japan Nuclear Plant Despite Reassurances Japan Struggles to Bring Reactors Under Control… Continue watching
Mar 17 Shutdown Averted Again After Senate Spending Vote The Senate passed another stopgap spending measure Thursday that will give congressional leaders and the White House another three weeks to work out a longer-term spending agreement. Government funds would have expired on Friday. This is the second stopgap measure… Continue reading
Mar 17 House Budget Chief Ryan: GOP Walking Into ‘Political Trap’ on Budget Reforms Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday predicted a long partisan battle ahead on the federal budget deficit, accusing Democrats of ignoring the problem and stressing that it could be a defining issue in the 2012 elections. At a breakfast… Continue reading
Mar 17 U.S. House Votes to Cut NPR Funding Updated at 6:25 p.m. with NPR statement | The House of Representatives approved a measure Thursday to bar federal funding of National Public Radio. The bill also prohibits public radio stations from using federal grant money to pay dues… Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch Photographer Reflects on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World Photographer Reflects on 'Epic' Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World… Continue watching
Mar 17 House Republicans Make Another Run at Cutting NPR Funding Public broadcasting supporters gather in the Hart Senate Office Building this week to protest cuts to PBS and NPR. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call. House Republicans are putting funding for NPR back on the chopping block Thursday. The… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Raises Energy Questions in U.S. The nuclear crisis in Japan is raising questions in the U.S. about nuclear power. Continue watching
Mar 16 Judy Woodruff: Research, Health and the Spending Debate — Part One For all their efforts, movie stars/Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco weren't enough to lift the TV viewing audience for the Academy Awards this year over what they were in 2010. An average of 37 million Americans watched, versus… Continue reading