Oct 05 Watch Supreme Court Considers Case on Discrimination in Religious Schools Supreme Court Considers Case on Hiring, Firing in Religious Schools… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Immigration, Affirmative Action on New High Court Docket; Health Reform Awaited The U.S. Supreme Court returned to work Monday and the court has a docket full of controversial cases on topics ranging from obscenity to strip searches to warrantless surveillance. Gwen Ifill previews the new term with The National Law Journal's… Continue watching
Oct 03 Supreme Court Case Preview: TV Indecency, GPS and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ By Marcia Coyle Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images. The most closely watched case in the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court is not on the argument docket yet, but likely will be soon. The justices are expected to take a look… Continue reading
Sep 28 White House Asks the Supreme Court to Consider Health Reform By Jason Kane Supreme Court; photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images. The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to decide whether the president's landmark health care law is constitutional. In a White House blog post Wednesday afternoon, Stephanie Cutter, a deputy… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch Obama Offers States an Exit to Parts of ‘No Child Left Behind’ Law President Obama said on Friday that No Child Left Behind, which President Bush signed into law in 2002, is not working. Jeffrey Brown discusses the major changes to the law and what they mean for students and schools with Fairfax… Continue watching
Sep 22 Davis Executed in Ga. After Appeals Fail, Austerity Strikes Hit Greece Despite highly publicized appeals for clemency, Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis was executed Wednesday night at 11:08 p.m. ET after the Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay of execution. Davis maintained until the end that he was innocent… Continue reading
Sep 19 Tracking the Return of the Gray Wolf On Monday's NewsHour, Miles O'Brien reports on the return of a once endangered species: the gray wolf. Is it a growing and threatening predator or a pivotal player to the ecosystem of the Western U.S.? O'Brien and his team traveled… Continue reading
Sep 07 Attention Mall Shoppers: Are You Engaging in Suspicious Activity? All week on the NewsHour, we're exploring different stories about the world a decade after the 9/11 attacks. On Wednesday's broadcast, you'll see a report from NPR's Daniel Zwerdling and the Center for Investigative Reporting about efforts… Continue reading
Sep 06 ‘Better This World’: POV Film Examines Plot Behind a Protest "Better this World" is the name of a film airing on POV Tuesday night, but it may as well be the credo and intentions behind the two central characters and their decision to protest the Republican National Convention in… Continue reading
Aug 31 Watch DOJ Makes ‘Audacious’ Move to Block $39B AT&T, T-Mobile Merger The Department of Justice filed suit Wednesday to block the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, which would create the largest wireless company in the country. Ray Suarez discusses the Obama administration's "unprecedented" move to block the deal… Continue watching