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
May 10 Obama's Second Supreme Court Nominee: Who is Elena Kagan? By Jason Breslow _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f54qe9c',482,304,""); President Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the 112th justice on the Supreme Court. During an East Room ceremony on Monday, President Obama described Kagan "as one of the nation's foremost legal minds," and called… Continue reading
May 10 Monday: Obama to Pick Kagan for Supreme Court; Setbacks in Gulf Spill By Jason Breslow Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Monday is expected to nominate… Continue reading
May 10 Exclusive: Oil Rig Worker Shares Tale of Survival, Fear, Legal Tangles Oil rig survivor Christopher Choy recently shared his story with the NewsHour and NPR. Continue reading
May 10 Watch Exclusive: Deepwater Horizon Worker Details Survival, Pending Legal Battle In an exclusive interview with the PBS NewsHour and NPR, oil rig worker Christopher Choy tells his harrowing story of survival aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the legal… Continue watching
May 10 Watch Obama's Second Pick to Court Renews Debate on Judicial Qualifications President Obama nominated Solicitor General and former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan to fill Justice John Paul Stevens' seat on the Supreme Court. Gwen Ifill gets four points of view from constitutional and Supreme Court experts on the announcement… Continue watching
May 09 Reports: President Obama to Name Elena Kagan as Supreme Court Pick By Maureen Hoch The Associated Press and major news networks reported late Sunday that President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. The AP cited an unnamed person familiar with the… Continue reading
May 09 How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico? By Chris Amico, Vanessa Dennis View ticker with live video feed. Last updated 11 a.m. ET on May 27. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month's oil rig explosion. What we do have… Continue reading