Mar 08 Watch How Will Employment, Earnings Change as U.S. Job Market Recovers? How Will Employment, Earnings Change as U.S. Job Market Recovers?… Continue watching
Mar 08 This Week From the Hill: Snowquester Fizzles, but Will Minimum Wage Rise? Six inches of snow was predicted to accumulate in Washington Wednesday, but it turned out to be more drizzle than powder on the steps of the Capitol. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The political team took a look at… Continue reading
Mar 08 Curiosity Sleeps Through Solar Flare This animation shows the path of the magnetic field that was discharged from the sun causing the Curiosity team to power down the rover this week. The modeling was carried out at the NASA Goddard Space Weather Research… Continue reading
Mar 08 Friday on the NewsHour: Poet Gretel Ehrlich Revisits Japan’s Tsunami By Tom LeGro, Anne Azzi Davenport Gretel Ehrlich reads more from her book, "Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami."… Continue reading
Mar 08 Conversation: Glenn Frankel’s ‘The Searchers’ By Tom LeGro "The Searchers" is, of course, the name of director John Ford's famous 1956 Western starring John Wayne. But it's also part of a much bigger American story, steeped in myth, told and re-told in different forms. It's now at the… Continue reading
Mar 08 Former GOP Senator Reflects on Presidential Meals and Meetings Former Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., left, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., walk to a budget talk meeting with Vice President Joe Biden in May 2011. Kyl doesn't envy his former colleagues who are hammering out the… Continue reading
Mar 08 Is It Inevitable That the United States Will Default? By Ellen Rolfes By Paul Solman With all the talk of the fiscal cliff and the sequester, I respond to a reader who wants to know if the economic dominoes are likely to fall, causing a government default, and I weigh… Continue reading
Mar 08 Obama Steps Up Outreach to Republicans, But Hurdles Remain By Christina Bellantoni Sen. John McCain flashes the thumb-up following a dinner with President Obama and a group of fellow Republican senators on Wednesday in Washington. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The cherry blossoms are still a few weeks away from peak bloom,… Continue reading
Mar 08 Gwen’s Take: Washington at Work (No, really.) And they say there's no more bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. Wednesday turned that notion on its ear. A much feared and anticipated snowstorm failed to materialize, disappointing thousands of schoolchildren, but the gray skies and empty streets forced by… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch Son-in-Law of Bin Laden Pleads Not Guilty in New York Civilian Court Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, former al-Qaida spokesman and Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiring to kill Americans in a New York court. Margaret Warner reports on how U.S. authorities found him and about the negative… Continue watching