May 15 GM Plans 18 Percent Reduction in Dealer Network By PBS News Hour A day after Chrysler unveiled plans to close a quarter of its dealerships, General Motors followed suit Friday by telling about a fifth of its dealers their franchises will be terminated by late next year. Continue reading
May 14 Watch Fighting Continues in Sri Lanka as Military, Tamil Rebels Face Off In Sri Lanka, government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels engaged in a new round of deadly fighting in a civil war conflict that has left thousands dead or displaced. Ravi Nessman, the Associated Press bureau chief in Colombo, offers insight… Continue watching
May 14 Watch Axelrod Defends Effort to Block Release of Detainee Photos White House senior adviser David Axelrod discusses President Obama's move to block the release of detainee abuse photos, the search for a Supreme Court justice, and controversy over the president's planned speech at the University of Notre Dame. Continue watching
May 14 Watch Other News: House Approves Additional War Funding In other news, the House approved another $97 billion in war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan through September, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi again denied she knew about terror suspects being waterboarded amid mounting criticism. Continue watching
May 14 Chrysler Looks to Slim Down Dealership Network By PBS News Hour Embattled automaker Chrysler wants to shutter about 25 percent of its 3,200 U.S. dealerships by next month, stating in a bankruptcy court filing Thursday that the network is antiquated and has too many stores competing with each other. Continue reading
May 14 With House Arrest Set to Expire, Suu Kyi Faces New Charges By PBS News Hour Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the pro-democracy Myanmar opposition, faces new criminal charges just weeks before her house arrest was supposed to end after an American man swam across a lake to reach her compound, her lawyer said. Continue reading
May 14 What's the Story With Regulating Derivatives? By Business Desk Question: What’s going on with the just-announced regulatory reform of derivatives? Paul Solman: Plenty. And you could say it’s about time. One of the leading scandals of recent years (and that’s no easy feat, considering how crooked a track… Continue reading
May 13 South Africa's President Zuma Replaces Popular Health Minister By PBS News Hour New South African President Jacob Zuma replaced Barbara Hogan as health minister this week, in a move that disappointed many in the HIV/AIDS advocacy and medical community. Continue reading
May 13 Watch Amid New Questions on Interrogation Tactics, Holder Mulls Road Ahead After a report on Wednesday's Senate hearings on CIA interrogation tactics, Gwen Ifill talks to Attorney General Eric Holder about his perspective on the debate over the use of torture on detainees and other political matters as part of a… Continue watching
May 13 Watch Senators Examine Use of Torture on Detainees Kwame Holman reports on a Senate hearing examining harsh interrogation methods used on some detainees. Continue watching