Jul 26 President Obama Urges Senate Action on Campaign Finance Disclosure President Obama spoke in the White House Rose Garden Monday to urge the U.S. Senate to join the House of Representatives in passing the DISCLOSE Act -- aimed at making political advertising more transparent after the Supreme Court's… Continue reading
Jul 26 What New Library of Congress Rules Mean for Mashups, iPhone Jailbreaking People who own iPhones will now be able to crack electronic locks on them, allowing them to install applications that might not have Apple's blessing, according to new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government. The primary source for all… Continue reading
Jul 26 20 Years After the ADA, Is Life Better for Those With Disabilities? The question to ask on the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, is whether life today is any better for those with disabilities? The first-ever civil rights law for people with physical and cognitive challenges, signed by… Continue reading
Jul 26 Khmer Rouge Prison Warden to Serve 19 Years for War Crimes By Jada F. Smith The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal charged with investigating the notorious "killing fields" regime in Cambodia handed down its first verdict Monday, sentencing the warden of a violent Khmer Rouge prison to 35 years in prison -- a sentence that… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch After Years-Long Wait, Cambodians See First Genocide Sentencing In the late 1970s, thousands of Cambodians were slaughtered in what became known as "The Killing Fields." On Monday, a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal handed down its first sentence related to that genocide, but the verdict against the former chief… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch 20 Years After ADA, Accessibility Remains ‘An Evolutionary Process’ Twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, the effects can be seen across the country in curb cuts, lifts on buses and so on. Judy Woodruff speaks with Andrew Imparato of the American Association of People with… Continue watching
Jul 23 On Both Sides of Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Awaiting a Prop 8 Verdict By Hari Sreenivasan It's been a long, slow summer for those waiting for a verdict in the legal dispute over Proposition 8. Californians went to the polls and voted Proposition 8 into law, overturning a state Supreme Court decision that said gays… Continue reading
Jul 22 World Court Rules on Kosovo’s Independence Eleven years ago, the United States and its NATO allies were bombing the Balkan nation of Serbia in a campaign to protect ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. On Thursday, the International Court of Justice ruled that Kosovo's declaration… Continue reading
Jul 22 Tonight on the NewsHour: The Legal Battle Over Arizona’s Immigration Law Crowds gathered Thursday outside a federal courthouse in Phoenix as lawyers for the Department of Justice ask U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to stop Arizona's controversial new immigration law from going into effect on July 29. The law makes… Continue reading