Jan 17 Watch Obama unveils new limits on U.S. spying while defending surveillance operations By PBS News Hour President Obama called for several changes to U.S. spying practices including ending the NSA's storage of bulk phone metadata. Kwame Holman reports on the president's reforms and Hari Sreenivasan gets reaction from Kate Martin of the Center for National Security… Continue watching
Jan 17 Obama backs limits on NSA phone data collection By Associated Press Video still by PBS NewsHour WASHINGTON -- Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately… Continue reading
Jan 15 Bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill pushed through by House By Alan Fram, Associated Press Party leaders pushed a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill for this year through the House on Wednesday, shunning the turmoil of recent budget clashes with a compromise financing everything from airports to war costs and brimming with victories and concessions… Continue reading
Jan 14 NSA surveillance doesn't stop terrorism, report claims By Justin Scuiletti A new report published by the New America Foundation claims that NSA surveillance may not be as useful combating terrorism as the government suggests. Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch Supreme Court considers definition of 'recess' in case on Obama's appointments Can the president bypass the Senate in making temporary appointments? Gwen Ifill talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about how a local labor dispute transformed into a debate of presidential power and the Supreme Court's first time… Continue watching
Jan 13 Supreme Court reviews president's recess appointment power By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Under a provision of the Constitution known as the recess appointments clause, the president may make temporary appointments to positions that otherwise require confirmation by the Senate, but only when the Senate is in recess. Now, President Barack Obama and… Continue reading
Jan 13 Obama and his policies prove toxic for Arkansas Democrats By Charles Babington, Associated Press Democratic Sen. Mark Pyror's seat is up for re-election in Arkansas and Republicans are hungrily looking to win his seat in order to take control of the U.S. Senate in Fall 2014. Part of Pryor's strategy to remain an incumbent,… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch News Wrap: Arctic air lingers in Northeast as winter storm wraps up News Wrap: Arctic air lingers in Northeast as winter storm wraps up… Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch Examining Obama's options to push his agenda in 2014 President Obama emerged from 2013 with near all-time low job approval ratings after the botched rollout of the health care law. Susan Page of USA Today and Jerry Seib of The Wall Street Journal join Judy Woodruff to discuss what… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch What the 2012 election can teach us about 2014 and beyond As the first year of President Obama's second term draws to a close, Gwen Ifill talks to Mark Halperin of Time magazine and John Heilemann of New York magazine about their new book, "Double Down: Game Change 2012," for insight… Continue watching