Aug 17 China's War on Illegal Buildings By Travis Daub In an effort to rid the country of unsafe, illegal and aging structures, the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development plans to demolish more than half of the country's residential buildings in the next 20 years. Illegal structures… Continue reading
Aug 17 CIA Tapes Found Beneath Desk Show Questioning of 9/11 Plotter The CIA has tapes of Yemeni national Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the 9/11 plotters being held in Guantanamo, being interrogated in a secret Moroccan prison in 2002, The Associated Press has reported. The tapes were discovered by a… Continue reading
Aug 17 Tuesday: Bomber Kills 61 in Iraq; Aid Slow to Reach Pakistanis By Tom LeGro A man receives treatment at a Baghdad hospital after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment center in the Iraqi capital. Photo by Khalil al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images. A suicide bomber killed 61 people Tuesday at an… Continue reading
Aug 17 The Morning Line: Mosque Debate Continues to Distract So much for Obama's campaign tour handing the Democratic message tons of free media coverage heading into the post-Labor Day frenzy. As the president wings his way from Los Angeles to Seattle to cheerlead for vulnerable incumbent Sen. Patty… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch News Wrap: 130 Survive Airliner Crash in Caribbean; 1 Dead In other news Monday, a Colombian airliner, carrying 131 passengers, crashed and broke into three parts on a resort island Monday but only one person was killed. In Iraq, former premier Iyad Allawi and his alliance called off talks to… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Mosque Near Ground Zero: Local Issue or Matter of National Debate? President Obama's remarks supporting the building a controversial mosque near Ground Zero in New York drew rebuke from Republicans. Gwen Ifill speaks with New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio and Teaneck, N.J., Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin on the different points of… Continue watching
Aug 16 Political Checklist: Obama's Campaign Road Show, Mosque Remarks By David Chalian In a weekly segment now dubbed "The Political Checklist," senior correspondents Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill tick through this week's list by weighing in on President Obama's three-day, five-state campaign swing and what clues his stops provide in figuring… Continue reading
Aug 16 New Political Groups Face Few Spending and Donation Limits In the wake of the landmark Citizens United v. FEC campaign finance ruling, unions and corporations are now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of their own money to support candidates via advertising. But those are not the only changes… Continue reading
Aug 16 Margaret Warner Heads to Iraq to Report on Troop Drawdown By Hari Sreenivasan As we near the end of official combat operations in Iraq at the end of August, the NewsHour's Margaret Warner is headed there for a reporting trip. We caught up with her on the Rundown for a pre-brief on… Continue reading
Aug 16 Monday: Karzai Sets Exit Deadline for Contractors; Gulf Shrimp Season Opens Afghan President Hamid Karzai is setting a four-month deadline for private security companies to cease operations in the country, a government spokesman said Monday. The Associated Press reports that the Interior Ministry has 52 security firms licensed, but some… Continue reading