Jul 08 Watch Rahm Emanuel: Obama 'Fully Informed' on Spy Swap Plan In a newsmaker interview, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel talks to Jim Lehrer about the U.S.-Russia spy swap plan and the legal battle over immigration. Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch News Wrap: Cuban Government Promises to Release Political Prisoners In other news Thursday, Cuba's government promised to release 52 dissidents over the few months. Also, three men believed to have ties to al-Qaida have been arrested in Norwayand Germany. Continue watching
Jul 07 Obama Uses Recess Appointment to Install New Medicare, Medicaid Chief By Lea Winerman President Obama on Wednesday announced that he would sidestep congressional hearings and use a recess appointment to install Dr. Donald Berwick as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The job -- running the federal health insurance… Continue reading
Jul 07 W.Va. Gov. Manchin Prefers Special Election to Pick Byrd Successor West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin said Wednesday that he would not appoint himself to fill the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's Senate seat -- but added that he wanted the state's attorney general to reevaluate a secretary of state's opinion… Continue reading
Jul 07 Wednesday: NATO Airstrike Kills Afghan Troops; Oil Found in New Orleans Lake Three American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the southern Afghanistan and a NATO airstrike mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in the east on Wednesday, officials said. The Afghan soldiers were launching an… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch Tea Party Ideology Driving a Wedge in Republican Party Politics For more on the political fractures in the Republican Party, Jim Lehrer speaks with Political Editor David Chalian, the newest addition to PBS NewsHour's team. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch In Somalia, Political Instability Sustains Humanitarian Crisis As the nearly two-decade-old political turmoil continues in the troubled East African nation of Somalia, Jeffrey Brown has a rare look into the failed state's clashing militias and humanitarian crises with New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Republican Party Faces Ideological Rifts Ahead of Election Season Judy Woodruff reports on the philosophical war inside the Republican Party, where some energized voters are calling for limited government, big spending cuts and fewer "Washington insiders."… Continue watching
Jul 06 Geithner: Scars of Financial Crisis Continue to Linger By News Desk Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Jim Lehrer in a newsmaker interview Tuesday that scars of the financial crisis are continuing to drag on the economy but said steps taken by the administration helped stabilize business conditions and home prices. _pap_embed_custom('news01s413bqf06',482,304,"");… Continue reading
Jul 06 Remembering Robert C. Byrd, the Fiddler By Dave Gustafson As longtime West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd is laid to rest today today, Art Beat looks back at the statesman's musical side, which shone through in his fiddling prowess. Continue reading