Mar 22 Adventurous, Patriotic ‘Girls of Atomic City’ Traveled South for Nuclear Jobs By Cassie Chew In this interview, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez chats with Denise Kiernan, author of "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II." In the book, Kiernan tells the story of the women… Continue reading
Mar 22 Startupland: Ireland Climbing out of Recession One Chip at a Time By Ray Suarez Trams on Dublin's new light rail system stop for passengers. Photos by Ray Suarez/PBS NewsHour. There's no oil. The domestic market is small, and scared. Overseas customers who once made you rich are now in economic crisis. After a… Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch In Call Brokered by Obama, Turkey’s Erdogan Gets Apology From Netanyahu On his last day in Israel, President Obama brokered a diplomatic exchange for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who had not talked since before nine Turkish citizens were killed in 2010. Margaret Warner reports… Continue watching
Mar 21 As Health Reform Law Turns Three, What Should You Expect Next? By Kaiser Health News Three years after the Affordable Care Act became law, a roundtable of reporters weighs in on what's changed for consumers, businesses and state governments -- and what you should expect next. Continue reading
Mar 21 Progress on Immigration Reform Leaves Rep. Gutierrez Elated and Wary Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., center at the podium, has long advocated for the comprehensive immigration reform. In November 2012, the representative stood with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and announced a declaration of nine principles for comprehensive… Continue reading
Mar 21 From War Zones to Museum Walls, Capturing the Iraq War at Eye Level Photographer Thorne Anderson captured this image in Najaf, Iraq, in 2004 while working as a freelancer covering the Iraq War. When photographers go into the field to cover a war, it would seem that making art to hang in… Continue reading
Mar 21 Cyprus: The Nightmare Scenario and How to Avoid It in America By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff Customers queue to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine (ATM) outside a Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl, also known as Laiki Bank on Thursday, March 21. The European Central Bank said it may cut Cypriot banks off… Continue reading
Mar 21 Judy’s Notebook: Three Years Later, Still in the Dark on the Affordable Care Act We've moved on to other news stories since then: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf, the shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Arab Spring, the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the 2012 presidential campaign, for… Continue reading
Mar 21 Deepa Gangwani: Fomenting Change for Indian Trash Collectors EmbedVideo(6003, 482, 304); Deepa Gangwani explains how her group Together as One field-tested a cheaper cook stove. A shocking incident involving her maid and a trash collector helped set Deepa Gangwani on her quest to help the poor… Continue reading
Mar 21 Budget Battle Heats Up as Threat of Shutdown Fades The U.S. Capitol. Photo by Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images. With the Senate having advanced a bill Wednesday to avert a government shutdown and the House expected to follow suit Thursday, lawmakers are already embroiled in their next… Continue reading