• As Venezuela's economy plummets, mass exodus ensues

    As Venezuela's economy plummets, mass exodus ensues

    Jul 09, 2017 09:09 PM EDT

    ... in rent free until November. She’s already behind on utility bills. LUISA GOMEZ: If I don’t even have 35 dollars to pay for the gas, how am I going to pay for rent? I don’t know what I’m going to do. This is distressing. NADJA DROST ...

  • America should stand for more than just wealth, says Warren Buffett

    America should stand for more than just wealth, says Warren Buffett

    Jun 26, 2017 11:08 PM EDT

    ... shareholders last year it's been a mistake to bet against the United States for the last 240 years. Has the U.S. standing, though, in the world been -- has it been changed, has it been harmed in any way, given what's been going on for the last six ...

  • After tone-shifting speech in Saudi Arabia, Trump broaches peace prospects in Israel

    After tone-shifting speech in Saudi Arabia, Trump broaches peace prospects in Israel

    May 22, 2017 11:56 PM EDT

    ... Yang. JOHN YANG: Amid the pomp of President Trump's arrival ceremony in Israel was an issue of policy that's confounded presidents for generations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Now we must work together to build a future where the nations of the region are at peace ...

  • Can President Trump keep his promises to veterans?

    Can President Trump keep his promises to veterans?

    Apr 14, 2017 07:54 PM EDT

    ... director for Concerned Veterans for America, an advocacy group funded by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers. Shulkin said he recognizes those challenges, and aims to build what he called “a system that is increasingly seamless between care in the community and care in the VA health care system.” As Shulkin ...

  • Remembering John Glenn, space pioneer and American statesman

    Remembering John Glenn, space pioneer and American statesman

    Dec 09, 2016 12:33 AM EDT

    ... back. MAN: Godspeed, John Glenn. HARI SREENIVASAN: February 20, 1962. MAN: Nine, eight. HARI SREENIVASAN: An Atlas rocket fired Friendship 7 into space. And over the next five hours, John Glenn's name was indelibly inscribed in history, the first American to orbit the Earth circling the globe three times ...

  • Does a Wall Street Cabinet discredit Trump's Main Street message?

    Does a Wall Street Cabinet discredit Trump's Main Street message?

    Dec 09, 2016 12:13 AM EDT

    From the early days of his campaign, one of Donald Trump's rallying cries was to “beware of Wall Street.” But the president-elect’s Cabinet picks of Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross are stalwarts of the financial establishment. Special correspondent Paul Solman speaks with banker-turned-journalist William Cohan about the relevance of their backgrounds and if the president-elect...

  • Trump picks John Kelly as Homeland Security secretary

    Trump picks John Kelly as Homeland Security secretary

    Dec 07, 2016 08:22 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, whose last command included oversight of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, to run the Department of Homeland Security, people close to the transition team said Wednesday. Kelly, who joined the Marine Corps in 1970, retired earlier this year, wrapping up a final, three-year...

  • Column: How cities and states are leading the fight for more beneficial trade

    Column: How cities and states are leading the fight for more beneficial trade

    Nov 02, 2016 07:06 PM EDT

    "The right question is not whether trade is good or bad for the United States," writes Edward Alden in his book "Failure to Adjust," but "whether the United States has used the new opportunities created by international trade to boost American living standards while minimizing the costs for those who lose out to import competition."

  • Will mega-corporations give way to a local manufacturing renaissance?

    Will mega-corporations give way to a local manufacturing renaissance?

    Sep 15, 2016 11:10 PM EDT

    Big companies today aren't creating nearly as many middle-class jobs. Instead they're hiring out much of the work to contractors around the world. But what if we could reverse engineer our technology to bring about a new era of local manufacturing in the U.S.? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks with Jerry Davis, author of the...

  • AP fact check: 2016 Democratic National Convention edition

    AP fact check: 2016 Democratic National Convention edition

    Jul 28, 2016 12:06 AM EDT

    A look at some claims Wednesday and how they compare with the facts, on a day packed with a lengthy news conference by Trump and evening convention speeches by high-powered Democrats, President Barack Obama among them.