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Illinois pensions in peril

Associated Press reporter Sarah Burnett talks to Hari Sreenivasan about new legislation concerning the state’s pension system and about how it may affect retirees, labor unions and taxpayers in that state and in others.

EmbedVideo(8139, 514, 320); This year, the Christmas shopping season is already off to a fast start. The National Retail Federation estimates that Americans will spend about 600 billion dollars during the last two months of 2013, up…

A wide-ranging exhibit titled "WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath" pulls moments from 165 years to reveal what happens before, during and after battle. Jeffrey Brown talks to a curator from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts about…

Late Thursday, a prominent Egyptian political activist, Alaa Abd El Fattah, was arrested in his home in Cairo. Alaa Abd El Fattah at his home in Cairo, 2007. Credit: NOW on PBS Abd El Fattah's wife, Manal Hassan, told the…

Bloomberg’s Shannon Pettypiece reports on the state of healthcare.gov before a second intense review beginning tomorrow, including a look at how some heavy users like insurers give the site low ratings. State-administered sites, said Pettypiece, are generally performing better.

The Wall Street Journal’s John Bussey gives us the context behind the ongoing dispute between China and Japan over a group of islands administered by Japan in the East China Sea. Under a treaty the U.S. is obligated to defend…

More than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Alaska’s North Slope is ground zero for global climate change. NewsHour producer April Brown reports the melting ice has opened up opportunity for shipping and other development – industry that could…

Margaret Warner reports from Geneva on the ongoing talks over Iran’s nuclear capability. The diplomats are struggling over the actual language of the text. Editor's note: This interview was recorded at 10:30 p.m. local Geneva time, before the agreement was…