Jul 18 Watch Fighting Words in Congress Kwame Holman reports on partisan wrangling in Congress over the $50 billion pension bill passed after a partisan fight that culminated with Republicans calling the police. Continue watching
Jul 16 North Korea Claims Nuclear Advances, China, U.S. Confer Chinese officials have called on the United States and North Korea to begin talks aimed at defusing tension over North Korea's purported pursuit of a nuclear weapons program. Continue reading
Jul 16 Congress Moves to Overturn New Media Ownership Rules A House committee on Wednesday voted to roll back a key part of new media ownership regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission last month. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Religious Properties: Federal Money for Historic Religious Buildings Ray Suarez reports on a church-state controversy over federal money being authorized to restore historic religious buildings. Continue watching
Jul 16 Watch Rationale for War in Iraq As questions continue to surface about the reliability of prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq, George Tenet appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Two experts discuss the Bush administration's case for the war in Iraq, its postwar planning and the challenges… Continue watching
Jul 15 Bremer Says U.S. Presence in Iraq Now Up to Iraqi People The American administrator in Iraq said Tuesday that with the creation of the new Iraqi Governing Council, the duration of the U.S. presence in Iraq was now up to the Iraqi people and that the U.S. has "no desire to… Continue reading
Jul 14 Iraqi Governing Council Convenes, Violence Continues Despite the formal introduction of a new 25-member Iraqi interim governing council this weekend, attacks against American occupying forces continued, including the killing of a U.S. soldier Monday. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Redistricting Tussle In Texas Tom Bearden reports on a congressional redistricting struggle in Texas that could add to the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch First Steps for the Iraqi Governing Council The U.S.-appointed Iraqi governing council held its inaugural meeting Sunday. Ray Suarez discusses the group's significance and the challenges it faces with Adeed Dawisha and Edmund Ghareeb. Continue watching
Jul 12 During Visit, President Bush Praises Nigeria’s Regional Leadership President Bush ended his five-country tour of Africa in Nigeria, calling the fledgling democracy a country of "great promise" and praising President Olusegun Obasanjo for his regional leadership on key issues such as AIDS and the conflict in Liberia. Continue reading