Jan 11 Watch Same-Sex Marriage Battle Heads to Federal Court in Calif. California's ban on same-sex marriage went on trial Monday in federal court. The landmark case is being likened to a modern version of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the issue of civil rights became a legal matter. Continue watching
Jan 08 Abdulmutallab Enters Not Guilty Plea in Detroit Hearing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man accused of attempting to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day, entered a not guilty plea during his arraignment Friday in a federal courtroom in Detroit. The 23-year-old Nigerian suspect said little during a… Continue reading
Jan 07 Thursday’s Headlines: Obama to Speak on Findings; Bomber Tied to Cleric The American public will learn on Thursday of the government missteps that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to get on a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. The Obama administration is set to release an account of the… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch Examining the ‘Life and Constitution’ of Antonin Scalia Gwen Ifill speaks with author Joan Biskupic about her new biography, "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia."… Continue watching
Jan 06 Abdulmutallab Indicted in Plot to Attack U.S.-Bound Airliner The man accused of trying to detonate an explosive on a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in Michigan on charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. The seven-page indictment… Continue reading
Jan 06 Immigration a Crucial Factor in Shifting Political Battlegrounds By Hari Sreenivasan At the dawn of another election year, it's always helpful to take stock of where the political landscape stands and how it's changed. Twenty eight years ago, the campaign battlegrounds were located in very different places than they are now. Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch News Wrap: Grand Jury Indicts Amdulmutallab for Airline Plot In other news, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was charged in his failed plot to blow up Flight 253 on Christmas, and U.S. drone attacks struck twice Wednesday in an al-Qaida stronghold in Pakistan, according to reports. Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch Yemen’s Instability Muddles Plan to Close Guantanamo President Obama has made closing Guantanamo Bay a top priority. Yet as Margaret Warner reports, that effort has been complicated by the failed plot by an al-Qaida group in Yemen to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas. Continue watching
Jan 05 Obama: U.S. Intelligence Failed to ‘Connect Dots’ on Airliner Plot By Quinn Bowman President Obama spoke late this afternoon about his meeting with top national security advisers about a wide-ranging review he ordered of the homeland security and intelligence systems. The message was clear: the U.S. government’s intelligence and air travel security systems… Continue reading
Jan 05 White House Halting Gitmo Transfers to Yemen The White House, via spokesman Robert Gibbs, announced Tuesday that it would stop the transfer of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp back to Yemen, a country recently under the spotlight in Washington. "While we remain committed to… Continue reading