Aug 02 Watch With U.S. Mission Ending, Iraq Struggles to Assemble Comprehensive Government President Obama announced Monday that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq will end at the end of August. The troop drawdown comes as Iraq's government remains deadlocked on leadership issues and the civilian death toll reaches an all time high… Continue watching
Jul 30 Poynter Editor on WikiLeaks' Global Leverage, Playing by Its Own Rules By Hari Sreenivasan On this edition of NewsHour Plus, we check in with Steve Myers, managing editor of Poynter Online, a training facility for journalists, who wrote this week about how WikiLeaks is changing the power structure in the news… Continue reading
Jul 30 Brooks and Marcus Talk Bush Tax Cuts and WikiLeaks By Quinn Bowman New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus -- who's sitting in for Mark Shields this week -- stopped by The Rundown Friday to discuss the debate over the expiring Bush tax cuts… Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch Brooks and Marcus on Fallout From Immigration, Rangel, WikiLeaks Columnists David Brooks of The New York Times and Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post speak with Jim Lehrer about the week's biggest news including part of Arizona's immigration law being struck down, ethics charges facing Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.,… Continue watching
Jul 30 Arizona Dispatches: The 'Talk' of the Valley and an Illegal Immigrant's Tale PHOENIX | Much has been made in recent months of the day that Senate Bill 1070 -- Arizona's controversial immigration law -- would go into effect. Everyone was waiting, debating, preparing. In the end, after Judge Susan Bolton's ruling,… Continue reading
Jul 30 President Obama Takes Chevy Volt Electric Car for a Test Drive By Terence Burlij _pap_embed_custom('news01s41f3qf06',482,304,""); It might go down as the shortest joyride in history. President Obama got behind the wheel of a black Chevrolet Volt, GM's new electric car, and drove it a distance of about 10 feet, topping out at… Continue reading
Jul 30 'Historic' Meeting of Mideast Adversaries Takes Place in Lebanon Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks (right) with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz at al-Shaab palace in Damascus on Thursday, on the eve of a joint mission to Lebanon aimed at containing political tensions there. Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP The… Continue reading
Jul 30 Obama Touts Auto Industry Recovery in Detroit Speech By Quinn Bowman _pap_embed_custom('news01s41f2qf06',482,304,""); President Obama rallied autoworkers at a Chrysler plant in Detroit Friday, telling workers that his administration's decision to rescue the ailing auto industry in 2009 kept their jobs alive and was the right decision, despite "naysayers in Washington" --… Continue reading
Jul 30 Conversation: Exclusive E-Books Deal Stirs Publishing World By Molly Finnegan On July 22, literary agent Andrew Wylie announced an exclusive partnership with retailer Amazon to begin selling digital versions of many classic backlist titles by authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Evelyn Waugh, Hunter S. Thompson, Salman Rushdie and… Continue reading
Jul 30 Gwen's Take: Toxic Conversations By Gwen Ifill A few years ago, my friends Mark Halperin, now of Time Magazine, and John Harris, now of Politico, coined the term "freak show" as a catchall for the fever that overtakes those of us in the information gathering business from… Continue reading