• How studying fruit flies and zebrafish might unlock secrets of the human brain

    How studying fruit flies and zebrafish might unlock secrets of the human brain

    Jul 24, 2014 12:05 AM EDT

    ... GWEN IFILL: Next: trying to better understand what's happening in the brain of a fruit fly, a dragonfly, or a zebra fish, all part of a larger puzzle to learn more about how our own brains work. NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien has the first in our ...

  • WATCH: Biden, Harris officials give update on transition

    WATCH: Biden, Harris officials give update on transition

    Jan 08, 2021 03:58 PM EDT

    "Rhode Island may be small, but our economy is mighty on the strength of our small businesses and innovative technologies," Raimondo tweeted Thursday night. She pledged that as commerce secretary, “I will harness that same American ingenuity to create good-paying union jobs and build our economy back better ...

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    Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert

    Dec 20, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... in the bill. And the things that they point at, the Republican things are things that came together, and I repeat it from centrists in the Senate -- Democrats and Republicans, Senator Breaux, Senator Miller, Senator Nelson, Democrats that said this is the best way to do it. JIM LEHRER: What ...

  • How a potential Senate deal could lower health care costs for millions of Americans

    How a potential Senate deal could lower health care costs for millions of Americans

    Jul 29, 2022 10:40 PM EDT

    ... nail. As much as people are saying, this is such a small piece of what started out as this President Biden's Build Back Better bill, it's still really significant when it comes to prescription drug spending. Laura Barrón-López: Also, Democrats are considering a measure to lower the ...

  • Big infrastructure bill in peril as GOP threatens filibuster

    Big infrastructure bill in peril as GOP threatens filibuster

    Jul 20, 2021 06:22 PM EDT

    ... first step to "get the ball rolling," though Republicans say he is now downplaying the significance. Six months after Biden took office, his signature "Build Back Better" campaign promise is at a key moment that will test the presidency and his hopes for a new era of bipartisan cooperation in ...

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    Billions in Aid Pledged to Haiti: What Comes Next?

    Apr 01, 2010 10:30 PM EDT

    ... Susan Rice said on Wednesday's NewsHour that the donations will help Haiti move "beyond the emergency phase into real, lasting recovery and development. And the theme of the conference today ... is to build back Haiti better." Now that the pledges have been made, what are the next steps? For ...

  • New York City's search for resilience continues five years after Sandy

    New York City's search for resilience continues five years after Sandy

    Nov 01, 2017 08:24 PM EDT

    ... dropped out of the Build It Back program or were determined ineligible, highlighting a city's big debate over resiliency. Resiliency, in engineering terms, is the ability of something to retain or return to its original state. But people in the Rockaways said they want better than life before the ...

  • Helping student inventors turn big ideas into the next big thing

    Helping student inventors turn big ideas into the next big thing

    Aug 31, 2016 11:14 PM EDT

    ... big thing. While the atmosphere was festive, there was some serious business going on. Fourteen teams pitched their inventions to invited guests, who were playing the role of venture investors for the evening, with venture bucks to invest in the ballot boxes of their favorite start-ups. MAN: Back the ...

  • Hurricane exposes fragility of Puerto Rico's energy grid despite large-scale investments

    Hurricane exposes fragility of Puerto Rico's energy grid despite large-scale investments

    Sep 22, 2022 10:40 PM EDT

    ... promise, an allocation of billions of dollars to try to help the island build back better, so to speak. And yet we saw Fiona come in as a relatively weaker storm and still do so much damage. How do you explain that? Yarimar Bonilla: Well, that's the existential question ...

  • Obama administration clears hurdles for drilling off Alaska coast

    Obama administration clears hurdles for drilling off Alaska coast

    May 11, 2015 10:36 PM EDT

    ... much as 22 billion barrels of oil and 93 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the area. Reporter Coral Davenport covers all this for The New York Times, and she joins me from its Washington bureau. Coral Davenport, welcome. Let's -- help us understand a little better what area ...