May 12 Watch News Wrap: Dutch Child Sole Survivor of Libyan Plane Crash In other new Wednesday, a Libyan plane crash on landing in Tripoli, killing 103 people on board but sparing a 10-year-old Dutch boy and seven children and two adults were hacked to death at a school in China by the… Continue watching
May 11 Politico: Kagan Will Face Questions on Harvard Military Recruitment Policy By Hari Sreenivasan _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f63qe9c',482,304,""); Politico White House editor Craig Gordon stopped by the Rundown Tuesday to give us a look at their reporting on President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court. Gordon told us that… Continue reading
May 11 Gordon Brown Resigns as Britain's Prime Minister Prime Minister David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. UPDATED -- 4:35 pm ET David Cameron became Britain's new prime minister on Tuesday, returning his Conservative party to power after… Continue reading
May 11 Wealthy Suburbs May Not Hold the Key to 2010 Elections By Dante Chinni The nation's wealthy suburban areas, places we call the Monied 'Burb counties in Patchwork Nation, are often the fulcrum of election night. Home of famously independent (or fickle) voters, the decisions voters make in the Burbs, which hold… Continue reading
May 11 Watch U.K. Opposition Parties Prepare to Form Government Under Conservative Leader British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation as Conservative and Liberal Democrats neared an agreement on forming a new coalition government. Jeffrey Brown talks to reporter Ned Temko about the new administration. Continue watching
May 11 Watch Prime Minister Gordon Brown Cedes Office to Conservative David Cameron Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain's Labor Party resigned his position as the two opposition parties reached an agreement to form a government, following last week's inconclusive national election. Continue watching
May 11 Watch Elena Kagan Faces Political Challenges for Supreme Court Seat Jim Lehrer talks to two Supreme Court watchers, Karen Tumlty from The Washington Post and Tom Goldstein, founder of SCOTUSblog.com, about the political landscape for the confirmation of nominee Elena Kagan. Continue watching
May 11 Watch Oil Executives Under Fire in Congressional Gulf Leak Probe Oil company executives traded blame for last month's explosion at an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico at hearings in Washington and Louisiana. Gwen Ifill talks to a Wall Street Journal reporter for more on the investigation into the… Continue watching
May 10 Markets React Positively to EU's $960 Billion Bailout Agreement After 11 hours of negotiations that stretched into early Monday, EU finance ministers have agreed to an enormous 750 billion euro (about U.S. $960 billion) bailout plan aimed at preventing the Greek financial crisis from spreading further into the… Continue reading
May 10 Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Resign Following Election Defeat Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces his resignation outside No. 10 Downing St. on Monday. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation on Monday, just four days after his Labor Party placed a distant… Continue reading