May 11 Shanghai World Expo: Serious Business with a Side of Campy Fun World's fairs are fun. There, I've said it. Campy fun, perhaps, but fun all the same. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure. Continue reading
May 11 Tuesday: Oil Rig Companies to Face Questioning; Karzai Visits White House By Jason Breslow Two oil booms surround one of the New Harbor Islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images. Executives from the three companies tied to the Gulf Coast oil spill head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Lawmakers from… Continue reading
May 10 Monday: Obama to Pick Kagan for Supreme Court; Setbacks in Gulf Spill By Jason Breslow Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Monday is expected to nominate… Continue reading
May 10 Exclusive: Oil Rig Worker Shares Tale of Survival, Fear, Legal Tangles Oil rig survivor Christopher Choy recently shared his story with the NewsHour and NPR. Continue reading
May 09 How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico? By Chris Amico, Vanessa Dennis View ticker with live video feed. Last updated 11 a.m. ET on May 27. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month's oil rig explosion. What we do have… Continue reading
May 09 Dispatch From Alabama: Watching, Waiting for Impact of Oil Spill By Tom Bearden Correspondent Tom Bearden has been reporting from Louisiana and Alabama on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown. There's a new feature on the local TV weather forecast in Mobile, Ala.:… Continue reading
May 07 Shields and Brooks on Prospects for an Energy Bill and Keeping the Lights On By Hari Sreenivasan Regular NewsHour analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by the Rundown after their appearance on Friday’s program. With plenty happening in Washington and beyond this week, we discussed how the chances for passage on climate legislation are shifting… Continue reading
May 07 Human and Neanderthal Genes ‘Incredibly Similar’ Modern humans and Neanderthals are more closely connected in the gene pool than expected, according to new research. The results, published in the journal Science on Friday, show that Neanderthals and humans are "incredibly similar" when comparing proteins encoded… Continue reading
May 06 Watch In Gulf of Mexico, Oil Containment Device Poised to Help Slow Leak NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden gives an update from Louisiana, as BP engineers prepare to lower a massive containment dome over into the Gulf of Mexico in hopes of capturing much of the massive oil leak. Continue watching
May 05 Dispatch From Louisiana: The Brown Pelican and Media Etiquette The Fort Jackson bird rescue facility near Venice, La., got its second patient on Monday -- an oil-soaked Louisiana brown pelican. The gawky bird was picked up on Storm Island, but the folks who are standing by to clean… Continue reading