Nov 14 Obama Stresses Compromise on Fiscal Cliff Talks, Defends Susan Rice in First Press Conference Since Re-Election In his first press conference since re-election, Mr. Obama said he is committed to strengthening the economy, boosting job growth and reducing the nation's $16 trillion debt, asserting that Americans approve of his balanced approach for reducing the deficit. Continue reading
Nov 02 Health Care Workers Brace for New Cholera Outbreaks in Haiti By Fred de Sam Lazaro PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hurricane Sandy might have saved its fullest fury for America's mid-Atlantic coast, but its earlier blows in the Caribbean wreaked havoc in Haiti. Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August,… Continue reading
Oct 29 Political Checklist: Campaigns Tracking Your Every Move EmbedVideo(4841, 482, 304); In this week's Political Checklist, political editor Christina Bellantoni talked with correspondent Hari Sreenivasan about his two-part Frontline piece airing on the NewsHour Monday and Tuesday. The program looks at how the campaigns are… Continue reading
Oct 19 Timeline: Deadly Car Bomb in Beirut Lebanese security forces and rescue workers gather at the site of an explosion in Beirut's Christian neighbourhood of Ashrafieh on October 19, 2012. Photo by STR/ AFP/ Getty Images. On Friday, a car bomb exploded in Beirut's Sassine Square,… Continue reading
Oct 19 Political Checklist: Reaching Latino Voters EmbedVideo(4770, 482, 304); In this week's Political Checklist, I chatted with Ray Suarez about his piece on the NewsHour Friday about how the presidential campaigns are reaching out to Latino voters. From the more traditional Spanish-language television… Continue reading
Oct 18 ‘Listen In’ to J.F.K.’s Secret Tapes President John F. Kennedy looking at his children John John and Caroline dancing in the Oval Office. Washington, December 1962. Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images. Thursday on the NewsHour, Gwen Ifill talks to historian and librarian Ted… Continue reading
Oct 18 Do You Trust Polls? Should You? Paul Solman interviews professor Doug Schwartz at Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute. Politics professor Doug Schwartz runs the well-respected CBS/New York Times poll at Quinnipiac University. We interviewed him at the university's Polling Institute for a story on… Continue reading
Oct 17 How to Make Money on the Presidential Prediction Markets Mitt Romney and President Obama point fingers during the second presidential debate at Hofstra Univesity in New York. Photo by Charlie Neibergall/AP/New York Daily News. We first reported on presidential prediction markets in a favorite story of ours… Continue reading
Sep 24 Ahmadinejad Talking Tough, Walking Like a Lame Duck EmbedVideo(4532, 482, 304); Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's words were defiant Monday, as he scoffed at Israel's threat to attack Iranian nuclear sites. "Fundamentally, we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists," he told us, some two… Continue reading
Sep 14 Paul Solman Reports on the Bank Fallouts: A Guide to the Past Four Years A pedestrian walks by the American International Group Inc. building in New York, on March 24, 2009. Photo by Gino Domenico/ Bloomberg via Getty Images. On Friday's show, the NewsHour takes a look at the state of the bank… Continue reading