May 27 Liveblogging Oil Leak Developments: Spill Now Worst in U.S. History By Quinn Bowman UPDATED: 6:13 PM: The New York Times is reporting that the top kill procedure has been halted by BP Thursday afternoon "when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping… Continue reading
May 26 Hardship Index Shows Joblessness Drops, Foreclosures Increase In an election year, the party in power ultimately lives or dies on the state of the economy -- or so goes the conventional wisdom. So, with a little less than six months before voters go to the polls, how… Continue reading
May 26 Watch Jamaica's Civilian Death Toll Mounts in Hunt for Wanted Drug Kingpin Margaret Warner has an update on the violence gripping Jamaica's capital where more than 40 people have died, after security forces stormed the slums in search of a reputed drug lord. Continue watching
May 26 Watch Assessing the Obama Administration's New Border Security Strategy The Obama administration has announced plans to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to perform support roles, such as surveillance and intelligence analysis. Judy Woodruff gets two points of view on the new security strategy for the… Continue watching
May 25 Gulf Coast Oil Leak: What Are Your Suggestions? By Hari Sreenivasan As the Gulf Coast oil leak continues, we want to hear your thoughts on the best way to stop the spill and also how to clean up the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading
May 25 High-Risk Pools Set to Begin in July, But Funding, Fairness Questions Remain In July, some of the first money allocated by the new health care reform law will start flowing to states to fund temporary high-risk insurance pools. These pools are intended to extend insurance coverage to some of the most medically… Continue reading
May 25 Politico: Republicans Roll Out Interactive Party Platform By Hari Sreenivasan _pap_embed_custom('news01s3ff4qebd',482,304,""); Politico's Deputy Political Editor Alexander Burns stopped by The Rundown to talk about the Republican Party's new Web initiative, which is designed to allow anyone to submit ideas to their plan to take control of the House… Continue reading
May 25 Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak: A Month in Photos More than one month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to spew into the ocean from a pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface. Meanwhile, containment and cleanup efforts continue on… Continue reading
May 25 Watch China Experts Assess Next Steps for U.S. Policy Toward Beijing As the U.S. looks to relieve tensions with China in a series of high-level talks, Ray Suarez gets two points of view on the economic and foreign policy relationships between the two countries. Continue watching