• Column: Why the Fed should print more money, not less

    Column: Why the Fed should print more money, not less

    Jun 30, 2016 04:37 PM EDT

    ... a shock But in the current economic environment, central banks certainly should create new money -- not only to shore up the world banking system short-term in a time of tremulous uncertainty, but more importantly, in order to make the necessary investments that will benefit their citizens and economies in ...

  • News Wrap: Boeing to sell passenger aircraft to Iran; DOJ investigates Orlando shooting

    News Wrap: Boeing to sell passenger aircraft to Iran; DOJ investigates Orlando shooting

    Jun 21, 2016 11:55 PM EDT

    ... defense? Just you wait. Also ahead this Tuesday: Venezuela's desperation. The country's deepening debt and political crisis pushes hungry citizens to riot in search of food. And Making the Grade -- the latest in our weekly education series examines how to turn students into scientists by ditching textbooks. CHRISTY ...

  • News Wrap: Senate Democrats launch gun control filibuster

    News Wrap: Senate Democrats launch gun control filibuster

    Jun 15, 2016 11:21 PM EDT

    ... old boy at Walt Disney World. It happened Tuesday evening at the Seven Seas Lagoon, as the boy was wading near shore. Police reported that search teams found the body today and that it was intact. The resort closed all its beaches. GWEN IFILL: The wreckage of a missing EgyptAir ...

  • Gravity waves, the sequel. LIGO detects second pair of crashing black holes

    Gravity waves, the sequel. LIGO detects second pair of crashing black holes

    Jun 15, 2016 06:21 PM EDT

    ... gravitational waves that are much fainter,” says Georgia Institute of Technology physicist Laura Cadonati, who chairs the LIGO Data Analysis Council. “That’s a long-term search—it takes time—that’s still being run now.” As the team gathers more data, the researchers hope to be able to learn ...

  • Ecuador looks to pick up pieces and rebuild after devastating earthquake

    Ecuador looks to pick up pieces and rebuild after devastating earthquake

    May 26, 2016 11:55 PM EDT

    ... countries to plan for emergencies. NADJA DROST: And that meant Ecuador's government already had a certain level of resilience and emergency coordination to activate search-and-rescue and channel aid to people, he told us. After getting frozen out of Ecuador two years ago for political reasons, USAID is ...

  • Supreme Court, down by one, finds it can be hard to decide

    Supreme Court, down by one, finds it can be hard to decide

    May 17, 2016 01:26 PM EDT

    ... draw comfortable majorities, even if larger issues are left unresolved. In another case decided Monday, the court ruled 6-2 in favor of the Internet search firm Spokeo.com in a dispute with a Virginia man who complained Spokeo published false information about him. But the justices returned the case ...

  • President ties Supreme Court punt on Obamacare birth control case to Garland stalemate

    President ties Supreme Court punt on Obamacare birth control case to Garland stalemate

    May 17, 2016 12:11 AM EDT

    Monday saw the evenly divided Supreme Court punt on two major cases, including a religious challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate. The no-decisions prompted President Obama to speculate the GOP’s refusal to consider Merrick Garland’s nomination might be having an effect. Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss...

  • Washington Post honored for deep dive into fatal police shootings
  • The woe of being labeled a pit bull

    The woe of being labeled a pit bull

    Mar 23, 2016 06:00 PM EDT

    Human perceptions may harm a dog's outcome if it is mislabeled as a pit bull at an animal shelter, according to a new study from Arizona State University.

  • Syrian peace talks begin, but the migrant crisis remains dire

    Syrian peace talks begin, but the migrant crisis remains dire

    Mar 14, 2016 11:32 PM EDT

    The first round of UN-backed Syrian peace talks began in Geneva Monday morning -- but for those trapped in overcrowded refugee camps, seeking to enter Europe through the Balkans’ closed borders, help seems far away. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner examines sobering statistics from the UN, while Jeffrey Brown talks to UN High Commissioner...