Mar 22 Watch Yemen's Struggles With al-Qaida Reveal a Country of Contradictions In the first part of a series of reports from Yemen, Margaret Warner explores the country's complex security concerns and why the nation has become an effective home base for the newest threats from al-Qaida. Continue watching
Mar 21 House Passes Historic Health Care Reform Legislation By Lea Winerman The House of Representatives on Sunday passed a sweeping $940 billion health care bill in a historic vote that will dramatically change the U.S. health care system and expand health insurance coverage to 32 million more Americans over the next… Continue reading
Mar 21 House Votes Cap Day of Debate on Health Reform By Lea Winerman Update: 11:38 p.m. ET The House has now passed the reconciliation bill with amendments to the Senate health reform legislation, by a margin of 220-211. This bill will need to go back to the Senate for approval, which… Continue reading
Mar 20 Democrats Inch Closer to Pushing Health Reform Over Finish Line By Murrey Jacobson With the hours ticking down before a pivotal vote on the fate of health reform, President Obama made a trip to Capitol Hill Saturday to rally the House Democratic caucus one final time in his push to persuade undecided… Continue reading
Mar 19 Shields and Brooks on Immigration Reform and NCAA Upsets By Hari Sreenivasan While most of the political attention in Washington in focused squarely on the fate of the health reform bill, demonstrators are planning rallies in Washington this weekend to bring more attention to the seventh anniversary of the U.S. Continue reading
Mar 19 Conversation: Still Unsolved, Gardner Heist Remains Largest Art Theft in History By Tom LeGro Twenty years ago this week, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was the site of the biggest art heist in history. Jeffrey Brown talks to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist" and who has been following recent developments… Continue reading
Mar 19 As Health Vote Nears, Obama Continues Public Push for Reform By Jason Breslow Updated 5:19 p.m. President Obama delivered Friday an impassioned closing argument for health care reform, telling a crowd in suburban Virginia that "the insurance industry will continue to run amok" if legislation is defeated. Speaking ahead of an expected… Continue reading
Mar 19 Gwen's Take: Health Care Deadlines, Schmedlines... By Gwen Ifill "If you don't set deadlines in this town, things don't happen.The default position is inertia."- President Barack Obama July 22, 2009We enter another weekend with yet another health care deadline hanging low on Washington's horizon. It will… Continue reading
Mar 19 Ray Suarez: The U.S. and Latin America In addition to my work at the PBS NewsHour, I've been the host of a program produced by Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, HITN. It's called "Destination Casa Blanca," and bills itself as "the Latino Voice in Politics." Each week,… Continue reading
Mar 19 Friday: Health Care Vote Likely Sunday; Diplomats Condemn Israeli Settlement Congressional Republicans gather in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday for a bicameral strategy meeting on health care. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) March Madness is in full swing this weekend, but a true buzzer beater… Continue reading