Nov 16 Social Media in the Middle East: Who Can You Trust? Editor's note: Tweets embedded to illustrate Andy Carvin's answers. As violence in Israel and Gaza escalates, Twitter offers a constant flood of eye-witness coverage on the rising tension. Andy Carvin, NPR's senior strategist for social media, has an in-depth… Continue reading
Nov 15 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: Oil giant BP will pay $4.5 billion and plead guilty to felony charges connected to the 2010 Gulf Coast spill The stepped-up conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza China's new leader Xi Jinping Plus, what humans… Continue reading
Nov 14 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Wednesday's NewsHour: President Obama's first full-fledged news conference since March The latest on the scandal involving CIA director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen The deadly toll of the meningitis outbreak Plus, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan… Continue reading
Nov 12 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: New questions about the FBI investigation that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus Back in school in New Jersey after the storm Lost combat records from the Afghan and Iraq wars And, remembering veterans… Continue reading
Nov 09 Final Edition: Vote 2012 College Tour By Imani Cheers Six months of planning. Nine weeks of traveling. Nineteen thousand five hundred twenty-seven miles logged. Sixteen universities and communities from Los Angeles, Calif., to College Park, Md. More than 10,000 students, faculty and staff. And now, the NewsHour's "Vote… Continue reading
Nov 08 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: The looming fiscal cliff, and prospects for a bipartisan deal What's next for the Republican Party after Tuesday's defeat Why it's taken so long to declare a result in Florida Plus, pediatricians prescribe reading for building better… Continue reading
Nov 02 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Friday's NewsHour: The White House says the latest jobs numbers show an economy on the mend, while the Romney campaign claims they are proof of a standstill The civilian casualties in Syria's civil war The focus on immigration in… Continue reading
Nov 01 Watch Campaigns Push Last-Minute Pleas on Twitter, Track Voter Online Browsing History Campaigns Push Last-Minute Pleas on Twitter, Track Voter Online Browsing History… Continue watching
Nov 01 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: The massive devastation in New Jersey after the storm ... The slow road back in New York And the challenges ahead for businesses and residents in lower Manhattan Plus, the full throttle presidential campaign with just five… Continue reading
Oct 31 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Wednesday's NewsHour: Millions still without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy How to cope with increasingly frequent super storms The campaign ground game, as seen from Wisconsin And, the Supreme Court debates the value of evidence provided by… Continue reading