Aug 03 Rock the Vote Looks to Overcome Youth Enthusiasm Gap by Midterms Rock the Vote, a non-profit group that encourages and mobilizes young Americans to register to vote, announced Tuesday that it is mobilizing in five states for its biggest midterm election year voting drive since its founding in 1992. Continue reading
Aug 03 BP Begins 'Static Kill' Attempt Updated 5:23 p.m. ET | BP senior vice president Kent Wells said at a technical briefing Tuesday afternoon that the injectivity test conducted Tuesday ahead of the static kill was a "textbook" operation. "It went exactly as we would… Continue reading
Aug 03 The Oil Spill Put in Perspective In an effort to better understand the magnitude of the gulf oil disaster, we've taken the newly published spill total and compared it against several real-world numbers. We'll be adding to this list throughout the day. If you have… Continue reading
Aug 03 In Honduras, Whispers of Political Unrest Remain Amid Mayan Beauty SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras | Within an hour after landing here in Honduras's second largest city, I had my picture snapped three times -- at immigration, a record of my arrival, then before boarding the airport bus to the downtown… Continue reading
Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: Housing Concerns and 'Toxic Trailers' By News Desk A resident of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward mows his lawn in front of a FEMA trailer in 2006. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're looking back at some of our NewsHour coverage… Continue reading
Aug 03 The Morning Line: Primary Day Voters head to the polls in Michigan, Missouri and Kansas for primary elections Tuesday that will help shape the November playing field. The nail-biter race of the day is the marquee contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Intelligence Oversight: Is Congress the Problem? Margaret Warner speaks with former Sen. Slade Gorton and former CIA Director John McLaughlin about oversight of the nation's massive intelligence community. Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch News Wrap: 11 Dead in Shootings in Connecticut, Indianapolis In other news Tuesday, a gunman killed eight people and then himself at a beer distribution center in Manchester, Conn., and another gunman killed two at a party in Indianapolis. Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch Some Kids Left Behind After Parents' Deportation Research shows today there are an estimated 5.5 million children with parents who are in the country illegally. If those parents are deported, some of those young people are left to fend for themselves. KPBS education reporter Ana Tintocalis tells… Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch New Drug Law Narrows Crack, Powder Cocaine Sentencing Gap President Obama signed a new law Tuesday that closes a decades-old gap in federal sentencing that led to much stiffer penalties for crack cocaine cases than ones involving powder cocaine. Gwen Ifill speaks with two experts about the implications. Continue watching