Oct 19 Tuesday: French Labor Strikes Create Havoc; Bank of America Records Big Loss Protesters in Lyon protect themselves from police tear gas during a demonstration against France's government pensions reform. Photo by Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images. Protesters clashed with police and set fires in cities across France on Tuesday as opposition to a… Continue reading
Oct 19 Angle Caught on Tape Again, Tells Latino Students They ‘Look a Little More Asian’ Republican Sharron Angle is running for the U.S. Senate seat in Nevada. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. For the second time in two days a controversial video has surfaced of Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle addressing a… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch Unemployment, Foreclosures Top Voter Concerns in Reid-Angle Showdown Political watchers are keeping an eye on the close Senate race in the Sliver State between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle. Judy Woodruff reports from Nevada on the neck-and-neck race. Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch As Election Nears, GOP Heavyweights Tout Message of Change With just 15 days until the midterm elections, candidates are pounding the campaign trail in hopes of getting voters to the polls on Nov. 2. Gwen Ifill talks to Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report, about… Continue watching
Oct 18 Students Explain Science to President They're too young to vote, but they're already designing cancer-fighting therapies, solar-powered cars and robots to combat distracted driving. One team of students cooked and sold tamales to raise enough money to build a better wheelchair for a classmate… Continue reading
Oct 18 As Medicare Moves Toward Pay-for-Performance, Study Highlights Need for Better Data Much of the coverage of the health care reform law in its early stages has focused on efforts to expand health insurance coverage. But the law has another focus as well -- improving the quality and value of medical care. Continue reading
Oct 18 Political Checklist: Obama Pulls Out All the Stops to Help Democratic Senators _pap_embeddable('news01s446eqf90',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); On this week's Political Checklist, Gwen Ifill is back from a reporting trip to Florida, where she saw Republican candidate Marco Rubio leading the polls in the state's three-way Senate race while the… Continue reading
Oct 18 Has the Tea Party’s Influence Slowed? In an election year where voter anger has been the topic on everyone's minds, the loose confederation of groups and interests known as the Tea Party movement has been a star attraction for political analysts. Hailed by some as… Continue reading
Oct 18 Judge to Hear Arguments Against Health Care Law; France Warned of Threat A federal judge is hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by the Virginia attorney general challenging one of the major tenets of the health care reform law. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's suit alleges that the individual mandate… Continue reading
Oct 18 The Morning Line: Money Advantage Puts Republicans in the Driver’s Seat Republican supporters attend the Republican National Committee "Victory Rally with Sarah Palin" in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday. Photo by Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images. If money usually follows momentum in politics, then Republicans are the ones with the wind at… Continue reading