• News Wrap: Satellite image of debris shifts Malaysia plane search to remote stretch of Indian Ocean

    News Wrap: Satellite image of debris shifts Malaysia plane search to remote stretch of Indian Ocean

    Mar 21, 2014 12:34 AM EDT

    ... GWEN IFILL: Russia and the West stayed locked in a stare-down today, as the crisis over Ukraine continued to build. Announcements of sanctions flew back and forth between Washington and Moscow. And, in Crimea, the Russians intensified their pressure on Ukraine's military. We will have a full ...

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    Obama Makes Tax Hike Appeal in Detroit After Weekend Closed-Door Budget Talks

    Dec 10, 2012 11:02 PM EDT

    ... the political dynamics at play and what might be in the deal taking shape, we are joined by Lori Montgomery. She's a reporter for The Washington Post. She covers economic policy and the federal budget. Welcome back to the program. LORI MONTGOMERY, The Washington Post: Thanks for having me ...

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    Amid Attention From Obama, GOP, How Is Midwest's Economy Doing?

    Aug 17, 2011 10:03 PM EDT

    ... to your point about what people are asking to be done, one of the big things that happened in Michigan back during the Depression was the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps. And if you look at northern Michigan, a lot of what's up there was built by the CCC ...

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    Wholesale Electricity Price Limits

    Jun 18, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... business in California? How do we take care of that need and give them the certainty that their bills will be paid if they come in and do business? So at the end of the day, what we did today was we put a better mechanism than we already had ...

  • States sue to stop $26.5 billion T-Mobile-Sprint merger

    States sue to stop $26.5 billion T-Mobile-Sprint merger

    Jun 11, 2019 07:58 PM EDT

    ... year ago, saying their combined pocketbooks and holdings of "spectrum," or the airwaves that carry cellphone signals, could result in a better 5G network than what either company could build on its own. It's an assessment several Wall Street analysts have agreed with. The U.S. is in a ...

  • Shields and Brooks on Trump’s response to Russia probe, Scalise shooting

    Shields and Brooks on Trump’s response to Russia probe, Scalise shooting

    Jun 16, 2017 11:33 PM EDT

    ... happened caused by the psychological pressure that he apparently feels. JUDY WOODRUFF: It is. People are referring, are reflecting back, Mark, to the Whitewater investigation, the Watergate investigation, that what happened after the original alleged crime made whatever happened in the first place much worse. MARK SHIELDS: Well, the two ...

  • A guide to Obama and Trump's differences on health policy

    A guide to Obama and Trump's differences on health policy

    Jan 22, 2017 06:58 PM EDT

    ... of the Collaborative for Effective Prescription Opioid Policies, told STAT after the election. “Obviously a lot of the impact is in the red areas of the map.” In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump laid out a detailed plan for addressing the crisis. He emphasized the need for better ...

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    How Environmentalists Lost Their Battle Against the Border Fence

    Aug 08, 2013 08:10 PM EDT

    Congress is considering building hundreds of miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of immigration reform. During the last big fence-building push, the fight that centered on the fence's potential effects on San Diego's fragile border ecosystems. Video by Katie Euphrat/KPBS. It's a clear, breezy morning on the scrubby hills overlooking California's...

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    Will Government Probes Crowd Out Policy Debates?

    Jun 03, 2013 01:45 PM EDT

    Tea party activists protest against the IRS last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Official Washington begins the month of June with a massive agenda set against a backdrop of scandal politics that have kept the White House on the defensive and won't be letting up any time soon. On...

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    Immigration Is Hot Topic in Iowa, Overlooked by Presidential Campaigns

    Nov 02, 2012 10:30 PM EDT

    Immigration Is Hot Topic in Iowa, Overlooked by Presidential Campaigns