Jan 01 House Passes Deal; Fiscal Cliff Averted ( {"video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTsan91Yy40"} ) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night… Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch Sen.-elect Deb Fischer on Spending, Gun Control and Bipartisanship Sen.-elect Deb Fischer on Spending, Gun Control and Bipartisanship… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch School of Wine: Training Students for Jobs in Washington State’s Wine Industry School of Wine: Training Students for Jobs in Washington State's Wine Industry… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch Sandy Recovery Continues at Slow Pace as People Wait for FEMA Relief Sandy Recovery Continues at Slow Pace as People Wait for FEMA Relief… Continue watching
Jan 01 NewsHour Correspondents Reflect on Their Favorite Stories of 2012 This past year NewsHour correspondents have covered a lot of ground: from the multi-billion dollar campaign season to the year's wild weather across North America. Listen to them explain their favorite stories of the year. Judy Woodruff EmbedVideo(5351, 482,… Continue reading
Jan 01 Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out? A river rises in the Andes and flows east to the Amazon, Ucayali River in Peru. Photo by Bates Littlehales/National Geographic/Getty Images TARAPOTO, Peru -- For tropical ecologist Gregory Asner, flying over the Peruvian Amazon from the town… Continue reading
Jan 01 Health Reform May Be Headed Back to Supreme Court in 2013 By Jason Kane Tea Party activist William Temple, protests in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 28, the morning the justices ruled to uphold the vast majority of the health care reform law. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Should old acquaintance… Continue reading
Jan 01 Seven Lessons Americans Can Learn From Immigrants to Live Longer EmbedVideo(5284, 482, 304); It's a phenomenon that's stumped social scientists for years. Hispanics in the U.S. are worse off than their white neighbors by almost every economic measure: poverty rates, dropout rates, access to health care. Claudia… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch What Will History Books Have to Say About 2012? Judy Woodruff talks to presidential historians Michael Beschloss and Richard Norton Smith about the events from 2012 that will live on in the history, including Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 elections, a mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., China's new leadership, and… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch In New E-Book, a Chronicle of the ’34 Days That Decided’ the 2012 Election In New E-Book, a Chronicle of the '34 Days That Decided' the 2012 Election… Continue watching