May 19 Watch Primary Elections Stir Political Waters for Midterms Democrats and Republicans voiced anti-incumbent sentiments with their votes during Tuesday's primary elections. Jim Lehrer talks to two political writers about the loss by longtime Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter and the high stakes for several more veterans. Continue watching
May 19 Novartis Employees Awarded $250 Million in Gender Bias Lawsuit Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG must pay $250 million in punitive damages after a federal jury in New York found the company consistently discriminated against its female employees. The ruling marks the largest-ever employment discrimination verdict, according to… Continue reading
May 19 Obama Renews Call for Immigration Reform President Barack Obama renewed his support for comprehensive immigration reform Wednesday but said he needs help from Republicans in Congress to fix a "broken" system along the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in Washington for a state… Continue reading
May 19 Patchwork Nation: Beware November Forecasts Made in May By Dante Chinni In a year where the biggest news is an unsettled electorate, everyone is looking for signposts and many think they saw them in Tuesday night's primary results - particularly in the Senate primaries in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. But… Continue reading
May 19 U.S. Scientists Recommend Setting 'Carbon Budget' A panel of the nation's leading scientists on Wednesday called for more research on climate change and more action to mitigate its effects, including setting a national "budget" to limit carbon emissions. In a three-part report commissioned by… Continue reading
May 19 Q&A: Market-Wide 'Circuit Breaker' Rules Proposed to Prevent Crashes After the dramatic "flash crash" of May 6, in which the Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 1,000 points in the space of a few minutes, regulators have been scrambling to pinpoint the crash's cause and find a… Continue reading
May 19 Thailand's Red Shirt Leaders Surrender; U.S. Voters Send Message to Incumbents A Red Shirt protester is detained by Thai police Wednesday inside the Red Shirt protest camp in Bangkok. Photo by Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images. Leaders from Thailand's Red Shirt protest movement surrendered to police Wednesday, yet that was not enough… Continue reading
May 19 Lincoln, Halter to Face Each Other in Runoff in Arkansas Primary By Quinn Bowman Incumbent Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter will face each other again in a June 8 runoff after neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Lincoln, elected to the Senate in 1998,… Continue reading