Apr 26 Monday: Financial Reform Faces Key Vote; Gulf Oil Leak Could Last Months Still lacking a bipartisan agreement on financial reform, the Senate is bracing for a crucial test vote Monday over whether to begin debate on Democratic legislation to toughen the rules on Wall Street. Despite lingering GOP resistance, Democrats reached… Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Crews Race to Contain Spreading Oil Spill Robotic submarines and hundreds of workers are struggling to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, stemming from last week's rig fire off the Louisiana coast. Judy Woodruff talks to David Kennedy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… Continue watching
Apr 23 Natural History Exhibit Asks: ‘What Does It Mean to Be Human?’ When scientists announced earlier this month they had discovered the fossils of what appears to be a new hominid species dating back almost 2 million years ago, it sparked new excitement -- and debate -- among researchers about our… Continue reading
Apr 23 Friday: Greece Formally Requests IMF-EU Bailout; Oil Rig Sinks in Gulf A poster next to a National Bank of Greece calls for civil servants to strike against austerity cuts. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.) Greece's national debt crisis reached a tipping point Friday, as its prime minister formally asked the… Continue reading
Apr 22 Gizmodo’s Tale of New iPhone; Is New Droid Really ‘Incredible’? Stop us if you've heard this one. So an Apple employee walks into a bar ... and walks out leaving behind what is believed to be the next generation iPhone. Long story short, tech blog Gizmodo paid for the… Continue reading
Apr 22 Two Companies Make It Easy Being Green For Earth Day, we take a look at two companies in the music industry that have made environmentally-friendly practices a priority. Continue reading
Apr 22 Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary Marked with Concerts, Idea Exchanges By Larisa Epatko Countries around the world celebrated the 40th Earth Day on Thursday and throughout the week with activities such as fashion shows featuring recycled materials, seed plantings at the Shanghai Zoo and musicians in Morocco playing songs about the Earth. Continue reading
Apr 21 ‘Plastiki’ Sets Sail to Raise Awareness of Ocean Pollution On March 20 the Plastiki, a 60-foot-long catamaran made entirely of recycled plastic, set sail from San Francisco bound for Sydney, Australia. The vessel is the brainchild of environmentalist and British banking heir David de Rothschild. The Rundown spoke… Continue reading
Apr 20 Government Should Set Limits on Salt in Food, Report Says Americans consume unhealthy amounts of salt, and in order to help them cut back the government needs to begin regulating sodium levels in processed food, according to a new report by the National Academies of Science's… Continue reading