Oct 27 Watch Gibson Guitars Under Investigation Jeffrey Brown talks to Anita Wadhwani of the Tennessean about the case against Gibson. Continue watching
Oct 27 Gibson Guitars Under Investigation By Tom LeGro An unlikely culprit has stirred up controversy in the music community: The Lacey Act, legislation aimed to curb illegal logging. Based on suspicions that the Gibson Guitar Corporation violated the act by importing illegal wood, federal agents raided the company's… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch U.S. Civil Court System Needs Major Overhaul, New Book Declares In "Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care," co-authors Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin examine problems and potential improvements in the U.S. civil court system, where 30 million cases are filed every year. Ray Suarez… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch Frontline’s ‘Lost in Detention’ Examines Immigration Enforcement For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch Alabama’s Immigration Law: Assessing the Economic, Social Impact The economical and social effects of Alabama's new immigration law are starting to show. Judy Woodruff discusses the impact with Grow Alabama's Jerry Spencer, State Rep. Mike Ball, R-Huntsville, and the Rosa Toussaint-Ortiz of the Hispanic-Latino Advisory Committee. Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch Supreme Court Weighs Constitutionality of Routine Jailhouse Strip Searches Do routine jailhouse strip searches for people accused of minor offenses violate the Constitution? Supreme Court justices heard a case Wednesday centering on that issue. Judy Woodruff discusses the case, which pits privacy rights against security concerns, with The National… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Secretary Clinton Condemns Iran Over Terror Plot in U.S. In other news Wednesday, the U.S. stepped up a diplomatic assault on Iran over an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Iran in unusually strong terms. Also in Detroit, a Nigerian… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Abdulmutallab May Not Talk Much in ‘Underwear Bomber’ Trial The trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is charged with trying to detonate explosives hidden in underwear on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, began Tuesday. Gwen Ifill discusses the opening day of the case with WDET Public Radio's… Continue watching
Oct 11 ‘Underwear Bomber’ Trial Begins in Detroit By News Desk 1 p.m. ET | Abdulmutallab's lawyer, Anthony Chambers, opted to delay his opening statement to jurors to a later point in the trial after the prosecutor's hour-and-a-half long opening statement. According to federal prosecutor Jonathan Tukel, Abdulmutallab believed he would… Continue reading
Oct 06 ‘Prosecutor’ Looks Behind-the-Scenes at the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court meets people in the remote village of Zumbe, D.R. Congo, the site of a brutal massacre. Photo courtesy Sheila Velez, White Pine Pictures On Thursday's NewsHour, we feature an… Continue reading