Dec 24 On Friday’s NewsHour: Retail Sales; Korean Tensions; Shields and Gerson RETAIL ECONOMY | Retailers had high hopes for business on this Christmas Eve. Jeffrey Brown talks to Dana Telsey, a retail-industry watcher. RICHARDSON ON NORTH KOREA | New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is a former U.N. ambassador with extensive experience… Continue reading
Dec 23 On Thursday’s NewsHour: Security Concerns; Ivory Coast; Gary Trudeau Here's what's on Thursday's NewsHour ... SECURITY CONCERNS | Concerns about terrorism over the holidays ratcheted up a notch Thursday with mail bombings in Rome. Margaret Warner speaks with former CIA official John McLaughlin and former White House counterterrorism… Continue reading
Dec 21 On Tuesday’s NewsHour: START Treaty, Cuban Medicine, Census Results START TREATY HEADS TOWARD RATIFICATION | President Obama has apparently secured more than enough Senate votes to ratify the U.S.-Russia START nuclear arms treaty. Naftali Ben David of The Wall Street Journal looks at the shift in momentum as… Continue reading
Dec 20 On Monday’s NewsHour: ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal, Cuban Economic Reforms LAME-DUCK CONGRESS COUNTDOWN | As the 111th Congress winds down, lawmakers are considering one of President Obama's top foreign-policy items: ratification of a New START nuclear arms deal with Russia. Gwen Ifill discusses Congress' ambitious agenda for the coming weeks… Continue reading
Dec 17 On Friday’s NewsHour… TAX CUT COMPROMISE | After much partisan debate on Capitol Hill, President Obama signed the $858 billion tax cut deal into law Friday. Ray Suarez has details on the politics behind the deal. PAKISTAN | Though a longtime U.S. ally,… Continue reading
Dec 16 On Thursday’s NewsHour: Afghan War Review, START Treaty, Bob Feller AFGHAN WAR REVIEW | One year after President Obama dispatched 30,000 more troops to help in the Afghan war effort, the White House released an assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Jim Lehrer gets perspectives on the report… Continue reading
Dec 15 On Wednesday’s NewsHour: BP Sued, CEOs Meet Obama, Afghan Intel BP LAWSUIT| The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit against BP and eight other companies involved in the Gulf oil spill disaster. Ray Suarez has more. OBAMA URGES COMPANIES TO HIRE | President Obama invited top business executives to a… Continue reading
Dec 14 On Tuesday’s NewsHour: Remembering Richard Holbrooke; Teen Drug Use REMEMBERING AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE | A day after his death at the age of 69, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was praised Tuesday as "one of a kind." Margaret Warner chronicles Holbrook'es decades of public service, then Jim Lehrer looks back… Continue reading
Dec 13 On Monday’s NewsHour: Health Reform Challenge, Tax Cuts, Madoff Case HEALTH REFORM RULING | Betty Ann Bowser has the latest on a federal judge in Virginia ruling that a major provision of the health care reform law is unconstitutional, then Gwen Ifill speaks with Neera Tanden from the… Continue reading
Dec 10 On Friday’s NewsHour: Nobel Peace Prize, Shields and Brooks NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN ABSENTIA | Liu Xiaobo, serving an 11-year sentence in China for releasing a pro-democracy document, was honored at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. Jeffrey Brown has more. NEWS WRAP | Hari Sreenivasan recap's the… Continue reading