Mar 12 Friday: Ground Zero Workers Reach Settlement; Obama to Delay Asia Trip More than 10,000 Ground Zero rescue workers made ill by dust and other contaminants left by the collapse of the World Trade Center could receive as much as $657.5 million in damages under a settlement reached with the city… Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch Shields, Brooks: Presidency 'At Risk' in Outcome of Health Reform Effort Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including the rift between the White House and the Supreme Court over President Obama's State of the Union and the ongoing negotiations to pass… Continue watching
Mar 12 Watch Middle East Tensions Rise over Planned Settlements Israel sealed off the West Bank over fears that its plans to authorize more housing settlements would ignite violence, just as Vice President Joe Biden returned home from a visit meant to kick-start peace talks. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Mar 11 Ray Suarez: Immigration Reform Takes a Number and Gets in Line Advocates of immigration reform that would create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. were asked to be patient. After the Obama campaign promised comprehensive reform and won by a convincing margin, they… Continue reading
Mar 11 Letters Reveal Public Grief for JFK's Death In the months after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the public flooded the White House mailbox with 1.5 million condolence letters to then First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. "We loved the President as a father as the father of our… Continue reading
Mar 11 Early Iraqi Election Results Are Split Preliminary results in Iraq's first parliamentary elections since 2003 began to trickle in Thursday, with current Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki leading in two provinces in the south and a secular challenger ahead in two northern provinces. The… Continue reading
Mar 11 Dodd to Unveil Financial Reform Without GOP Support UPDATE 2:45PM: At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Sen. Chris Dodd denied that the political ramifications of reconciliation being used in the health care debate motivated him to push a financial reform bill forward without GOP support. Continue reading
Mar 11 Criticism of President by Justice Is as Rare as Criticism of Court During SOTU By Quinn Bowman Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts made headlines Tuesday when he said at the University of Alabama that President Obama's criticism of the Court's decision on a landmark campaign finance case during January's State of the Union speech was… Continue reading
Mar 11 Thursday: House Finalizing Health Care Deal; Early Election Results From Iraq House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is meeting with fellow Democrats Thursday morning to outline key elements of a final health care reform package. Democrats are still awaiting a final cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, but following a closed-door… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch White House, High Court Dustup Over State of the Union Continues The White House struck back at comments made by Chief Justice John Roberts, who criticized the president for using his State of the Union pulpit to voice disapproval of the high court's ruling on campaign finance. Judy Woodruff gets two… Continue watching