Aug 05 Watch New Orleans Officers Convicted in Killings: a Turning Point for a Healing City? Five current or former New Orleans police officers were convicted Friday in connection with a deadly shooting on Danziger Bridge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson discusses how the convictions are being viewed in… Continue watching
Aug 05 New Obama Directive Aims to Prevent Genocide, Violent Outbreaks By Larisa Epatko President Obama signed a directive Thursday setting up an interagency board to come up with a coordinated governmental approach in the next four months to prevent mass atrocities and genocide. Continue reading
Aug 05 With 117,00 New Jobs in July, a Slight Improvement in the Solman Unemployment Scale By Paul Solman "Employment Report Damned with Faint Praise: It Could Have Been Worse." Thus does Nigel Gault, Chief U.S. Economist of IHS Global Insight, sum up the consensus view of Friday's unemployment numbers. Jobs added in July; upward revision for June. Even… Continue reading
Aug 05 Gwen's Take: All the King's Horses and All the King's Men By Gwen Ifill In the fine tradition of the well-executed post-mortem, we now find ourselves in the season of the "tick-tock" -- the well-reported explanations of how a big story unfolded. We have been treated to the finest of the genre in the… Continue reading
Aug 05 Woodruff: Dissecting the Dysfunction It's possible we'll look back on this period at some distant time in the future and smile, but right now, that's hard to imagine. With the stock market plummeting (a drop of 1,200 points in the Dow Industrials in… Continue reading
Aug 05 Obama Can Tout Improved Jobless Rate, but the Race Will Be Won in 2012 President Obama will speak about the economy Friday. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. There's only one story worth watching in American politics today and it's the story that will likely determine the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch Bloomberg Kicks Off New Effort to Empower Black, Latino Men New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $127 million, three-year plan to coordinate city agencies and efforts with a goal of reducing disparities between young black and Latino men and the rest of the population. Jeffrey Brown discusses the… Continue watching
Aug 04 Bloomberg: Americans Worry That U.S. Is Losing Competitive Edge On Thursday's NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown interviews New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about his new plan to tackle the disadvantages facing young black and Latino men in schooling and jobs. Brown also asked Bloomberg about Thursday's market sell-off… Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch FAA Shutdown Coming to an End, but Funding Fight Still Looms Congressional leaders announced Thursday they had reached a bipartisan agreement to temporarily extend funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, which would end the nearly two-week partial shutdown but leave long-term funding in question. Jeffrey Brown discusses the deal with Public… Continue watching
Aug 04 Reid: Deal Made to End FAA Shutdown Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Roll Call file photo Update 4:59 p.m. ET | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday afternoon that a bipartisan compromise has been reached to end the partial Federal Aviation Administration shutdown that put… Continue reading