• Can the West show unity in response to Russia, Islamic State?

    Can the West show unity in response to Russia, Islamic State?

    Sep 04, 2014 12:52 PM EST

    ... mark in new poll ‘Moment of testing’ on Ukraine; searching for unity from the West on Islamic State: President Barack Obama continues his trip abroad for the NATO meeting in Wales. On Wednesday afternoon in Estonia, he addressed the situation in Ukraine, calling it a “moment of testing” for the ...

  • Still no consensus on border plan as Congress hurtles toward summer recess

    Still no consensus on border plan as Congress hurtles toward summer recess

    Jul 17, 2014 01:14 PM EST

    ... on border plan Pew poll finds support for accelerating legal process Clinton, undecided leading the 2016 pack Plus daily trivia and Line Items Congress still searching for consensus on border plan: With Congress closing in on its month-long August recess, time is running out for lawmakers to reach a ...

  • News Wrap: Guinean authorities say Ebola outbreak has grown into ‘unprecedented epidemic’

    News Wrap: Guinean authorities say Ebola outbreak has grown into ‘unprecedented epidemic’

    Apr 01, 2014 12:35 AM EST

    ... Ebola kills nine out of 10 people with severe bleeding, but there is no vaccine or specific treatment. The small fleet of planes and ships searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet came up empty again today. A cluster of orange objects in the Southern Indian Ocean turned out to ...

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    Germany continues to grapple with Nazi-era legacy

    Mar 01, 2014 05:00 AM EST

    ... broadcast on January 12, 2014. WILLIAM BRANGHAM:  From the outside, it looks like a beautiful old estate, but this is no private residence. Inside, investigators for the German Federal Government are poring through decades old records, searching for the last remaining Nazi war criminals who might have escaped justice. This ...

  • 'My Dad heard the call to action.' Gwen Ifill on her father and Martin Luther King

    'My Dad heard the call to action.' Gwen Ifill on her father and Martin Luther King

    Aug 23, 2013 01:00 PM EST

    ... humility and conciliation in Dr. King's speeches and writings, my Dad heard the call to action. So that's what his children heard too. For years, I scanned the footage of that day, searching for a glimpse of my father marching along in his clerical collar. It doesn't ...

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    News Wrap: Cleveland Kidnapper Agrees to Plea Deal to Avoid Death Penalty

    Jul 26, 2013 04:00 AM EST

    ... has said she believed Zimmerman acted to protect himself after Martin attacked him. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden will not face the death penalty for anything he's done if he returns to the United States. Attorney General Eric Holder gave that assurance to the Russian justice minister in ...

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    Report: Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline

    Mar 06, 2012 11:17 PM EST

    Black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. Jeffrey Brown discusses the disparities with Christopher Edley Jr. of the University of California, Berkeley and the Fordham Institute's Chester Finn Jr.

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    Schools Look to Holistic Approach to Improve Attendance

    Feb 10, 2012 06:45 PM EST

    Photo by Max Wolfe via Creative Commons When it comes to lowering the high school dropout rate, many school leaders have found that something fairly basic works: the ABCs -- Attendance, Behavior and Class. And after President Obama's call-to-action to raise the legal dropout rate to 18 in this year's State of the Union, communities...

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    Remembering and Reimagining August 28, 1963

    Aug 26, 2011 03:14 PM EST

    My daily commute takes me south along the Potomac River and past the neoclassical majesty of the Lincoln Memorial, a beautiful drive I try not to take for granted. But I had been living and working in the nation's capital for more than two decades before I retraced the steps I had taken as a...

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    News Wrap: Gunman Kills 2 U.S. Airmen, Wounds 2 at German Airport

    Mar 03, 2011 12:50 AM EST

    In other news Wednesday, a gunman killed two U.S. Air Force troops and wounded two others traveling in a bus outside an airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The 21-year-old suspect was arrested as he fled the scene. Meanwhile, security forces fired tear gas at protesters in Yemen, and two people were killed.