Aug 27 President Bush Signs Executive Orders on Intelligence Reacting to recommendations from the panel that investigated the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush issued executive orders Friday increasing the CIA director's power and creating a new national counter-terrorism center. Continue reading
Aug 27 Watch Debate Flares Over Ads by Political Groups To explain the ins and outs of the 527 groups that fund the Swift boat and other attack political ads, Terence Smith speaks with Aron Pilhofer, coauthor and editor of the 527 Project at the Center For Public Integrity. Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Mark Shields and David Brooks Discuss the Week’s News Jim Lehrer speaks with columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks about the Abu Ghraib abuse reports released this week, the counter-terrorism executive order signed by President Bush, 527 groups that fund political advertisements and next week's… Continue watching
Aug 26 Iraq’s Top Cleric Strikes Deal to End Fighting in Najaf Iraq's top cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met in Najaf Thursday, forging an agreement aimed at ending fighting that has engulfed the city for the past three weeks. Continue reading
Aug 26 Polls Show Close Presidential Race Just over two months before U.S. voters choose a new president, two new national polls show a close race and an almost evenly divided electorate. Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch Sudan’s Sanctions Deadline Draws Near as Darfur Crisis Continues Arab militias have killed tens of thousands of Sudanese over the past several months in the Darfur region of the country. Correspondent Bill Neely of Independent Television News reports. Ray Suarez discusses the humanitarian crisis with Harvard University lecturer Samantha… Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch Historians Discuss if the Vietnam War Still Lingers as a Political Issue Margaret Warner speaks with presidential historian Michael Beschloss; Richard Norton Smith,director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; and Meena Bose, professor of American politics at West Point, to explore the question of why the Vietnam War remains such a potent… Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch Sen. John Kerry and Vice President Dick Cheney Campaign in Pennsylvania Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, Mass., campaigned in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Kerry appeared at a Steamfitters' Union Hall, and Cheney spoke to supporters at a rally in Pottsville. Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Returns to Iraq as the Military Standoff in Najaf Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani returned to Iraq Wednesday after undergoing surgery in London, urging his Shiite Muslim following to participate in a mass demonstration against the ongoing violence in Najaf. Ray Suarez speaks with John Burns of The New York… Continue watching
Aug 24 U.S. Soldier to Plead Guilty in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case Military prosecutors agreed Tuesday to drop some of the charges against the highest-ranking U.S. soldier accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in exchange for a guilty plea, the soldier's lawyer told the Associated Press. Continue reading