Politics

Yesterday the House passed legislation extending the child tax credit to poor families. Kwame Holman reports on the next step, a House-Senate compromise package.

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Israeli helicopters fired missiles Thursday at a vehicle in a Gaza City neighborhood, killing a senior leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas and six others.

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An explosion set off by an apparent suicide bomber destroyed a bus in downtown Jerusalem Wednesday, killing at least 16 and wounding some 100 others.

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Ray Suarez speaks with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut about his plans for the nation's uninsured.

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Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car carrying a top official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza City, wounding the Hamas leader and sparking worries that the strike could derail an internationally backed "road map" for peace.

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Israeli troops dismantled an uninhabited West Bank settlement Monday in some of the first steps in the internationally backed "road map" to Middle East peace.

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Jim Lehrer discusses the role of the American president in the Middle East peace process with diplomatic historians Kenneth Stein, Doug Little, and Diane Kunz.

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Margaret Warner talks with former senator and Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun about her plans for the U.S. health care system.

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Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor discusses her historic appointment, women in the legal profession, major court decisions, and her new book entitled The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice.

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Congolese residents greeted French troops with cheers of "liberated, liberated" as a U.N. contingent arrived Friday in the town of Bunia, the first wave of an armed U.N. deployment aimed at quelling the country's violent tribal warfare.

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