• N.C. voters consider clashing messages in high-stakes Senate race

    N.C. voters consider clashing messages in high-stakes Senate race

    Oct 28, 2014 11:59 PM EDT

    ... power. We have to do this to help save this country. GWEN IFILL: Both candidates are getting a tremendous boost from outside groups on the right and the left. From the Koch brothers to Planned Parenthood, they have kicked in more of $70 million, two of every three dollars spent ...

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    Lesson From Ed Miliband's Rise in U.K.

    Sep 27, 2010 05:00 PM EDT

    The brothers Miliband: Ed (left) and David (right) at the Labour party conference in England. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Updated Oct. 4 Editor's Note: We have confirmed with his staff that Ed Miliband did indeed serve as an unpaid intern at the NewsHour during the mid-1980s ...

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    Uncertainty Hits Wall Street After Lehman, Merrill Meltdown

    Sep 15, 2008 10:25 PM EDT

    ... all of you.Diane Swonk, let me begin with you. Did the federal government, did the Treasury do the right thing this weekend, make the right decision not to prop up Lehman Brothers?DIANE SWONK, Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial: I think that was the right decision, but I think there ...

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    How Will Mubarak's Trial Shape Egypt's Transition?

    May 25, 2011 10:22 PM EDT

    ... participated in these very large demonstrations, has said it's not going to join in the big demonstration on Friday. And I think the Muslim Brotherhood is beginning to put its weight on the side of, let's move into a political transition. MARGARET WARNER: Is there any prospect, do ...

  • Why three brothers are attempting a record-setting row across the Pacific Ocean

    Why three brothers are attempting a record-setting row across the Pacific Ocean

    Aug 24, 2025 09:40 PM EDT

    ... projects in East Africa. John Yang spoke with the brothers when they were about 500 miles from Australia. ... John Yang: Now a story about three brothers, a boat and thousands of miles of ocean. The brothers are the McLean's from Scotland, and they're in the final stretch of ...

  • Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86

    Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86

    Dec 27, 2023 06:57 PM EDT

    When "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" debuted on CBS in the fall of 1967 it was an immediate hit, to the surprise of many who had assumed the network’s expectations were so low it positioned their show opposite the top-rated "Bonanza." The brothers had begun their own act ...

  • Polls say anti-Islam and far-right populist Geert Wilders heading for shocking win in Netherlands

    Polls say anti-Islam and far-right populist Geert Wilders heading for shocking win in Netherlands

    Nov 22, 2023 11:21 PM EDT

    ... its leader Frans Timmermans made clear that Wilders should not count on a coalition with him. Despite his harsh rhetoric, Wilders was already courting other right and center parties by saying that whatever he would do, "it would be within the law and constitution." The historic victory came one year ...

  • Italy's new right-wing government comes under fire for banning rave parties

    Italy's new right-wing government comes under fire for banning rave parties

    Nov 02, 2022 07:16 PM EDT

    ... World War II, ending a disastrous and murderous alliance with Hitler's Germany. Meloni has tried to chart a moderate course, seeking to distance her Brothers of Italy party from its neo-fascist origins and denouncing Mussolini's racial laws that sent thousands of Italian Jews to Nazi death camps ...

  • Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy's prime minister

    Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy's prime minister

    Oct 22, 2022 05:57 PM EDT

    ... serve as premier. Meloni, 45, recited the oath of office before President Sergio Mattarella, who on Friday formally asked her to form a government. Her Brothers of Italy party, which she co-founded in 2012, will rule in coalition with the right-wing League of Matteo Salvini and the conservative ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on response to Hurricane Ian and right-wing election wins in Europe

    Brooks and Capehart on response to Hurricane Ian and right-wing election wins in Europe

    Sep 30, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    ... but it has come to our attention this week, Jonathan, with the election of a woman named Giorgia Meloni. She's the leader of the Brothers of Italy, a political party, has ushered in what is being described as the most far right government in Italy since World War II.