May 15 Trio of Scandals Puts Obama, Holder in Hot Seat Attorney General Eric Holder may be the lone witness at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight Wednesday. Watch a live stream of the hearing, which will begin at 1 p.m. EDT. Even when the White House says… Continue reading
May 14 Watch Was Seizure of AP’s Phone Records Justified or Harmful to Press Freedom? Was Seizure of AP's Phone Records Justified or Harmful to Press Freedom?… Continue watching
May 14 Watch Justice Department Seized AP Phone Records to Track Government Leaks The Justice Department secretly subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press journalists during two months in 2012. The AP was notified that records had been secretly seized for more than 20 of its phone lines, possibly to track government leaks of… Continue watching
May 10 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight On the Friday May 10 PBS NewsHour: A seamstress was pulled out alive in Bangladesh from the ruins of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago Details on the $45 million dollar bank heist involving ATMs in… Continue reading
May 06 How Did Watergate Affect You? EmbedVideo(6418, 482, 304); "Covering Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Google’s Schmidt and Cohen Discuss Promise and Pitfalls of the Digital Future Google's Schmidt and Cohen Discuss Promise and Pitfalls of the Digital Future… Continue watching
May 02 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: President Barack Obama travels to Mexico with trade, security and immigration on the agenda The fight over access to emergency contraceptives continues as the Obama administration moves to appeal a federal ruling A bloody April for Iraq,… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Google’s Schmidt, Cohen Describe a ‘New Digital Age’ Google's Schmidt, Cohen Describe a 'New Digital Age'… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch How a Bogus Tweet Can Wreak Financial Havoc When hackers sent out a bogus tweet from the Associated Press' Twitter account, the financial markets took a minutes-long nosedive. For more on how social media affects our world, NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni talks to Daily-Download.com's Lauren Ashburn and… Continue watching
Apr 26 Judy Woodruff Recounts Day President Reagan Was Shot EmbedVideo(6320, 482, 304); March 30, 1981 was a routine day for Judy Woodruff as she traveled with the press pool to cover a speech by President Ronald Reagan, two months into his presidency, at the Washington Hilton. Continue reading