Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading
Dec 10 ‘Law & Disorder’ Killing: 3 New Orleans Officers Found Guilty, 2 Acquitted _pap_embeddable('news01s4624qff1',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Three current or former New Orleans police officers now face sentencing in a 2005 killing and cover-up after Hurricane Katrina. The victim, Henry Glover, was shot outside a strip mall and was last seen alive… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch News Wrap: Tensions Run High in Haiti Amid Election Recount In other news Friday, police were out in force in Haiti as officials checked vote tallies from the disputed presidential election. The U.S. has issued a travel warning to Americans and flights to and from Port-au-Prince were halted as well. Continue watching
Dec 10 Bush v. Gore: Ten Years Later By News Desk // Ten years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of the most-watched decisions in its history, ruling 5-4 to stop a statewide recount in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. The decision meant that Republican candidate George W. Continue reading
Dec 08 Supreme Court Looks at Arizona Law Punishing Employers for Hiring Illegal Workers By Meghan Welsh On Wednesday the Supreme Court examines a case that centers around a 2007 Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire workers illegally. The Legal Arizona Workers Act requires employers to verify the eligibility of new workers through… Continue reading
Dec 08 Haiti Election Protests Grow, Airport Closes Protesters run by burning tires on the street on Dec. 8, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images) Protesters reportedly set fire to the headquarters of Haiti's ruling political party Wednesday, and thousands took to the streets, forcing the… Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch Supreme Court Reviews Controversial Arizona Law on Illegal Workers The Supreme Court weighed the constitutionality of a controversial Arizona immigration law that penalizes employers who hire illegal workers. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal walks through Wednesday's arguments and the legal issues at play. Continue watching
Dec 07 On Tuesday’s NewsHour: Tax Cut Plan, WikiLeaks’ Woes, Cuba Dispatch TAX CUTS: President Obama used a White House news conference Tuesday to make the case for the tax cut compromise he brokered Monday. Jeffrey Brown talks to economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Stephen Moore of the… Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch Legal Tangle Tightens Around WikiLeaks, Julian Assange The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is just one of the many problems he and his secrets-exposing website now face as the U.S. explores possible prosecution on espionage charges. Gwen Ifill talks to Jeffrey Smith, former CIA general counsel,… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch WikiLeaks’ Assange Surrenders, But Denies Any Wrongdoing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turned himself into Scotland Yard Tuesday, but his lawyers vowed to continue fighting extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual-assault charges. Kwame Holman has more on the arrest and the threat of prosecution of the U.S. Continue watching