May 02 What a ‘Private Option’ for Medicaid Expansion Might Look Like The Obama administration wanted Republican states to accept the health law's Medicaid expansion pretty much as is. Republicans wanted Medicaid money in no-strings block grants. Arkansas has broached what could be a deal-making compromise, giving Washington the increased… Continue reading
May 02 Drugs Provide No High at Mexico Summit Screen grab of Mexican flagPresident Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto may have hoped that drugs and violence would not grab most of the headlines of their Thursday summit in Mexico City. But events may be… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Archaeologists Make Grisly Discovery About Starvation at Jamestown Settlement According to historians, the people who settled Jamestown, America's first permanent English community, arrived during the worst drought in 800 years. Accounts from the time tell of residents forced to eat dogs, cats, rodents and shoe leather. But a recent… Continue watching
May 02 Watch Iraq Bombarded by Deadly Sectarian Violence in Bloodiest Month Since 2008 April was the bloodiest month since 2008 in Iraq, where widespread sectarian violence killed more than 700 people. Coordinated attacks were responsible for most serious string of violence since American troops left that country almost 18 months ago. Ray Suarez… Continue watching
May 01 Watch At the CIA, a ‘Sisterhood’ of Analysts Who Helped Find Bin Laden At the CIA, a 'Sisterhood' of Analysts Who Helped Find Bin Laden… Continue watching
May 01 Watch Strange Bedfellows Join Fight to Keep California Oyster Farm in Operation Strange Bedfellows Join Fight to Keep California Oyster Farm in Operation… Continue watching
May 01 Watch U.S. Faces ‘Real-Time Experiment’ in Economic Recovery While Cutting Spending U.S. Faces 'Real-Time Experiment' in Economic Recovery While Cutting Spending… Continue watching
May 01 Virginia: Issues Fade in 2013’s Only Competitive Election By Simone Pathe Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, left, and former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe, right, are vying for Virginia governor, while Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, center, who declined to run, has defended McAuliffe against some of Cuccinelli's attacks. Photos courtesy of Cuccinelli,… Continue reading
May 01 Conflict of Lease and Legacy Provokes Controversy on the Half Shell Harvesting oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co. in the Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. Photo by Spencer Michels. "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" -- Lewis Carroll Not since Lewis Carroll wrote "The Walrus… Continue reading
May 01 The True Un-Hollywood Story of a Sisterhood’s Hunt for Bin Laden The HBO documentary "Manhunt" details the grueling work by CIA agents in the search and capture of Osama bin Laden. Photo courtesy of HBO The second anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death brings a revealing new account of what… Continue reading