Jun 16 Watch U.S. Cash Fans the Flame of Mexico's Drug Violence For more on the deadly war that rages along the U.S.-Mexico border and the United States' role in fueling the drug trade, Ray Suarez talks with Allert Brown-Gort of Notre Dame University and Andrew Selee of the Woodrow Wilson International… Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch Mexico's War With Drug Cartels Claims More Lives Mexican President Felipe Calderon appealed to the Mexican people for help as yet another round of drug gang violence erupted in Mexico this week. Ray Suarez has an update on the volatile situation along the border. Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch Obama's Spill Response Examined Following Oval Office Address The President acknowledged discontent over his administration's handling of the Gulf oil leak in his Oval Office address to the nation on Tuesday. Gwen Ifill talks to analysts about whether that speech could help bolster confidence in the response to… Continue watching
Jun 15 Shields and Brooks: Will Obama's Oil Disaster Speech Change Minds? By News Desk After President Obama's Oval Office address on the ongoing Gulf disaster, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks joined Judy Woodruff to review the substance of the primetime speech. "I thought the windup was stronger than the pitch," Shields said. Continue reading
Jun 15 Full Video: President Obama's Oval Office Address on Gulf Oil Disaster By News Desk Watch all of President Obama's Oval Office address on the federal response to the ongoing Gulf Coast oil leak disaster: // Also, make sure to check out analysis and opinion from a variety of experts in Obama's Annotated… Continue reading
Jun 15 Scientists Again Raise Government Estimate of Oil Leak Rate By News Desk Updated 7:47pm ET Details are still emerging about the scope of the new oil flow estimate, and it is not yet completely clear whether that estimate apples only to the flow rate after the riser was cut on June 3,… Continue reading
Jun 15 Q&A: Ask Roubini and Taleb Your Questions on Stimulus Spending, U.S. Debt Back in 2006, economist Nouriel Roubini and scholar Nassim Taleb shared some words of warning about the state of the financial and housing markets. On Tuesday night's NewsHour, we speak with both of them again… Continue reading
Jun 15 Oil Execs Grilled Over Spill Readiness; Fire Delays Containment Effort *Updated 4:47 p.m. ET *| BP PLC spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press Tuesday afternoon that a drillship resumed capturing oil about five hours after a fire caused an emergency shutdown. He said there was no damage reported… Continue reading
Jun 15 Tuesday: Oil Execs on the Hill; Obama to Address Nation From Oval Office Oil executives from five major companies head to Capitol Hill Tuesday to testify at a House hearing on industry safety as President Obama prepares to deliver remarks to a frustrated nation on the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil crisis. Oil… Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch News Wrap: Ethnic Bloodshed Continues to Rock Kyrgyzstan In other news Tuesday, the death toll mounted in Kyrgyzstan as ethnic rioting aimed at minority Uzbeks continued, and British Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 13 civil rights demonstrators in Northern Ireland. Continue watching