Jul 26 The Morning Line: Leaked Afghanistan Field Reports to Shape Political War Debate At Home By Terence Burlij The release of 92,000 classified reports by the website WikiLeaks paints a familiar and bleak picture of just how difficult and convoluted achieving success in Afghanistan will be for the American military. These reports will shine a bright light… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch After Years-Long Wait, Cambodians See First Genocide Sentencing In the late 1970s, thousands of Cambodians were slaughtered in what became known as "The Killing Fields." On Monday, a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal handed down its first sentence related to that genocide, but the verdict against the former chief… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch 20 Years After ADA, Accessibility Remains 'An Evolutionary Process' Twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, the effects can be seen across the country in curb cuts, lifts on buses and so on. Judy Woodruff speaks with Andrew Imparato of the American Association of People with… Continue watching
Jul 25 Despite Skeptics, Feinberg Enthusiastic to Put $20B Oil Disaster Fund to Work BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. | At 7 a.m. Saturday, Kenneth Feinberg stood in front of a standing-room only crowd at the municipal building in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and told people "I am your lawyer." He didn't get… Continue reading
Jul 24 Crews Return to Kill Oil Well as Tropical Storm Bonnie Fizzles With Tropical Storm Bonnie downgraded to a tropical depression, a drilling rig and ships associated with the effort to kill the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well reversed course Saturday when the weather forecast improved. "We are going to continue… Continue reading
Jul 23 Shields and Brooks on 'Inception' of Tea Party Caucus, Michael Steele, Movies By Hari Sreenivasan In another color-coordinated edition of the "extra-extra, read-all-about-it" segment we do with Mark Shields and David Brooks on The Rundown, the columnists weigh in on what the new Tea Party Caucus could mean for Republicans. Our duo also… Continue reading
Jul 23 D.C. Schools Chief Rhee Fires 241 Teachers Using New Evaluation System By Veronica DeVore, Imani Cheers Washington, D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee announced Friday the firing of 241 teachers who did not meet standards set forth by a new district-wide evaluation system. The new system, known as IMPACT, for the first time ties D.C. teachers'… Continue reading
Jul 23 On Both Sides of Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Awaiting a Prop 8 Verdict By Hari Sreenivasan It's been a long, slow summer for those waiting for a verdict in the legal dispute over Proposition 8. Californians went to the polls and voted Proposition 8 into law, overturning a state Supreme Court decision that said gays… Continue reading
Jul 23 Veteran Newsman Daniel Schorr of NPR Dies at Age 93 By News Desk Daniel Schorr, a longtime NPR commentator and an original member of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS News team, died early Friday. He was 93. At the end of his long career, Schorr was most recently a senior analyst… Continue reading