• What Trump and Clinton didn't say in their economic speeches

    What Trump and Clinton didn't say in their economic speeches

    Aug 13, 2016 04:14 PM EDT

    ... trade deals and job growth. Yet perhaps most notable about their speeches is what they left out. Mostly unmentioned were major challenges that have slowed the U.S. economy and made good-paying jobs harder to find, particularly in struggling pockets of the country. They are challenges that tend to ...

  • The latest: Republican presidential candidates battle in South Carolina

    The latest: Republican presidential candidates battle in South Carolina

    Feb 14, 2016 04:17 AM EDT

    ... and is once again pointing to Rubio's role in the "Gang of Eight" legislation that would have provided a path to legalization. Cruz slams the bill as "the Rubio-Schumer amnesty plan," earning boos from the crowd. But Rubio brings up the fact that Cruz proposed an amendment that ...

  • How building a better battery would change the game for renewable energy

    How building a better battery would change the game for renewable energy

    Dec 16, 2015 01:01 AM EDT

    ... So that's, in units of pressure, 3,000 pounds per square inch. It's really a lot. When you want to get the energy back, you have a valve open. As the piston is drawing back, the valve closes, and then the air expands, and it drives the piston ...

  • Amid widespread poverty, boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico

    Amid widespread poverty, boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico

    May 30, 2015 03:00 PM EDT

    ... economy even more. In the energy sector, Peña Nieto broke the 75-year state oil monopoly with a constitutional amendment allowing private companies to invest in the industry. On education, the government broke the teacher union’s hold on school staffing by passing a bill to stop the sale and ...

  • ‪Boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico‬

    ‪Boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico‬

    Apr 06, 2014 03:15 PM EDT

    ... economy even further. In the energy sector, Peña Nieto broke the 75-year state oil monopoly, with a constitutional amendment allowing private companies to invest in the industry. On education, the government broke the teacher union’s hold on school staffing, by passing a bill to stop the sale and ...

  • Filmmakers try to shake ‘fairy tale story of change’ in documenting Egypt’s revolution

    Filmmakers try to shake ‘fairy tale story of change’ in documenting Egypt’s revolution

    Feb 25, 2014 02:14 AM EDT

    ... them recently. MARGARET WARNER: The Oscar nominated documentary "The Square" tracks two and-a-half years of tumult in Egypt, from Hosni Mubarak's ouster in 2011 through the 2012 end of direct military rule and the 2013 removal of elected Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi. The film, which can ...

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    Chrysler Pays Back Billions in Bailout Loans: Is the Comeback Complete?

    May 24, 2011 10:18 PM EDT

    Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne announced Tuesday that the company had repaid $7.9 billion in debt and interest to the U.S. and Canadian governments, less than two years after receiving a bailout. Jeffrey Brown discusses the comeback with Paul Eisenstein, publisher of thedetroitbureau.com and Changing Gears' Micheline Maynard.

  • What we know now that Trump has paused tariffs on electronics

    What we know now that Trump has paused tariffs on electronics

    Apr 14, 2025 07:50 PM EDT

    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick later said that this was only a temporary reprieve — telling ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that electronics will be included under future sector-specific tariffs on semiconductor products, set to arrive in "probably a month or two."

  • Standing up Afghan army is like ‘trying to build an airplane while in flight,’ says top U.S. general

    Standing up Afghan army is like ‘trying to build an airplane while in flight,’ says top U.S. general

    Sep 09, 2016 11:19 PM EDT

    U.S. and coalition forces have been in Afghanistan for 15 years since the 9/11 attacks. Though their numbers have drastically decreased as the U.S. has trained Afghan security forces, it is not easy to build an army in the middle of a war. Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse reports from Kabul on the challenges facing Afghan...

  • Equal pay for equal play. What the sport of tennis got right

    Equal pay for equal play. What the sport of tennis got right

    Apr 12, 2016 08:15 PM EDT

    And what still needs work.