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    After Bankruptcy Filing, Focus Turns to the 'New GM'

    Jun 01, 2009 10:00 PM EDT

    ... Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York. The automaker reported nearly $173 billion in debt against assets of $82 billion. A short time later at the White House, President Obama said it's a new opportunity to build a successful, competitive company. And he said the planning is well underway ...

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    Senator John Kerry's Full Acceptance Speech at the DNC

    Jul 29, 2004 04:00 AM EDT

    ... better. And help is on the way. What does it mean when people are huddled in blankets in the cold, sleeping in Lafayette Park on the doorstep of the White House itself - and the number of families living in poverty has risen by three million in the last four years ...

  • Democrats set to unveil stopgap bill to prevent shutdown

    Democrats set to unveil stopgap bill to prevent shutdown

    Sep 18, 2020 10:10 PM EDT

    ... posturing and finger-pointing, much to the dismay of lawmakers who believe a flawed deal is better than none at all. “We can argue about what the specifics of a plan should look like. But the important thing is that we get back to the negotiating table and hammer out ...

  • American towns under cyberattack from an NSA-built software

    American towns under cyberattack from an NSA-built software

    May 26, 2019 08:59 PM EDT

    ... a city without e-mail. Hari Sreenivasan: And then finally who's responsible or who pays the bill on all this? I'm assuming that the hospitals and the cities that lose all the money and productivity they're on the hook for it's themselves. But technically if the ...

  • Could Bill Belichick's grasp of economics be the key to the Patriots' success?

    Could Bill Belichick's grasp of economics be the key to the Patriots' success?

    Feb 02, 2018 02:04 PM EDT

    ... the 2001 season in which the Patriots were given a less than 8 percent chance of winning, that strategy was Bill Belichick’s, economics major. The key to the game and season for the Patriots and ever since: quarterback Tom Brady, paid $310,000 in 2001 to back up a ...

  • Column: Here's what's wrong with the U.S. health care system

    Column: Here's what's wrong with the U.S. health care system

    Sep 22, 2017 09:12 PM EDT

    ... system than people in other advanced industrialized countries. Which brings us back to single-payer. I experienced the difference between a single-payer system and the U.S. system when I worked in Germany. And I can tell you that the German system was much simpler, cheaper, and better. The ...

  • Will McCain's speech inspire bipartisanship in the health care debate?

    Will McCain's speech inspire bipartisanship in the health care debate?

    Jul 25, 2017 11:33 PM EDT

    ... limited number of input that actually doesn't move the health care system forward and make it more accessible and more affordable, especially for folks in Middle America, because we really get pounded by proposals like the House bill or, what's even worse, the Senate health care bill that ...

  • Bill Nye on his 'codebreaker' mom and how science teachers can change the world

    Bill Nye on his 'codebreaker' mom and how science teachers can change the world

    Apr 03, 2017 07:21 PM EDT

    ... change, and space exploration was a popular topic, too. Teachers in the audience asked about how they could build a model of Nye’s lightsails in the classroom and the significance of NASA’s flagship missions, like New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto. But the main theme of the ...

  • What’s the future of relations with China, Japan under Trump?

    What’s the future of relations with China, Japan under Trump?

    Feb 11, 2017 12:39 AM EDT

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with President Trump Friday amid growing concerns in Asia over trade, North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs and China flexing its military muscle. Judy Woodruff speaks with Evan Medeiros, former senior director for Asian affairs during the Obama administration, about what U.S. relations with Asia look like going forward.

  • Trump on border wall: Mexico will pay us back for 'sake of speed'

    Trump on border wall: Mexico will pay us back for 'sake of speed'

    Jan 06, 2017 01:54 PM EDT

    President-elect Donald Trump's tweet came as top aides consider a plan to ask Congress to ensure money is available in U.S. coffers for the wall, but to rely on existing law that already authorizes fencing and other technology along the southern border.