Nov 14 Watch In 'Rosewater,' remembering humor and humanity after torture By PBS News Hour In 2009, journalist Maziar Bahari was held for months in solitary confinement in a Tehran prison after being charged with being a spy. He turned his real ordeal into a memoir, which has now been dramatized as "Rosewater," a new… Continue watching
Nov 14 How 'Rosewater' became Jon Stewart's directorial debut By Anne Azzi Davenport, Victoria Fleischer Having delivered pointed political barbs and satire about the media and much more since 1999, Jon Stewart took somewhat of a creative detour two summers ago. The movie "Rosewater" marks the screenwriting and directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host… Continue reading
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Nov 07 Obama writes Iran's supreme leader about militants By Julie Pace, Matthew Lee, Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a rare outreach to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Barack Obama has written a letter about the fight against Islamic State militants, a common enemy in Syria and Iraq, according to diplomatic sources. Continue reading
Nov 06 Watch News Wrap: Court upholds ban on gay marriage in four states By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, a federal appeals court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. That decision makes it more likely that the issue will return to the Supreme Court. Also, The Wall Street… Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch Azar Nafisi views American society through its literature in 'Republic of Imagination' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch Can U.S. solve 'Rubik's Cube' of Iran nuclear negotiations? By PBS News Hour With less than six weeks before the deadline to agree on an Iran nuclear deal, negotiations have come to a kind of stalemate over sharp limits on Iran's uranium enrichment capability. Gwen Ifill gets an update on the hurdles ahead,… Continue watching
Oct 15 What's at stake in Iran nuclear talks? By Bradley Klapper and George Jahn, Associated Press VIENNA — An Iranian nuclear agreement is the Obama administration's grandest foreign policy objective, a legacy-defining endeavor that holds the prospect of ending the gravest potential threat to Israel and the Middle East and reintegrating Iran into the world community. Continue reading
Oct 08 Kerry has seven weeks to help secure nuclear agreement with Iran By Bradley Klapper, Matthew Lee, Associated Press WASHINGTON — With a late-November deadline approaching, America's top diplomat is plunging back into Iranian nuclear talks with one eye on his adversary and the other on developments at home, as pressure rises in Washington for a deal ensuring the… Continue reading