Sep 07 Tuesday: Petraeus Warns Against Quran Burning; Obama to Call for Tax Breaks Indonesian demonstrators rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Photo by Aldo Utama/AFP/Getty Images. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and… Continue reading
Sep 02 As Peace Talks Resume, What’s on the Minds of Middle East Leaders? "Do we have the wisdom and the courage to walk the path of peace?" President Obama asked Middle East leaders Wednesday before a White House dinner kicking off renewed peace negotiations. Over the past 24 hours, the Middle East… Continue reading
Sep 01 Najaf Dispatch: Inside the Imam Ali Shrine By Larisa Epatko NAJAF, Iraq | The Imam Ali Mosque is considered the one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. The NewsHour recently visited the shrine during Ramadan and watched as crowds grew throughout the evening. Continue reading
Sep 01 Wednesday: Mideast Peace Talks Begin, Hurricane Earl Downgraded By Maureen Hoch Hours after a primetime address marking the end of combat operations in Iraq, President Obama pivots Wednesday to another complex and vexing Mideast issue: Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. President Obama will host talks in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin… Continue reading
Aug 30 Impact of Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally Remains Unclear for Tea Party By Dante Chinni Glenn Beck had a good Saturday. Depending on whose crowd estimate you want to believe -- always a tricky game -- somewhere between 87,000 and 500,000 people came to the National Mall for the TV and radio personality's… Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch Islam Struggles for Understanding, Place in U.S. Religious Mosaic The debate on whether to build a mosque near Ground Zero has become a touchy subject for many and raised questions over U.S. views on Islam. Gwen Ifill gets three perspectives from the Rev. Welton Gaddy of The Interfaith Alliance,… Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch How Is Islam Viewed in America Today? With several new polls illustrating a divide over American attitudes toward Islam, PBS stations sampled opinions across the U.S. Continue watching
Aug 20 Unplanned Aberration: How Mosque Discussion Got Derailed If the camera had continued rolling Monday night at the NewsHour after I completed a segment on the debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque, you would have seen me beating my head against the anchor desk. I am not… Continue reading
Aug 19 The Morning Line: Misconceptions About Obama’s Faith on the Rise By David Chalian It's quite easy to imagine President Obama itching to get up to Martha's Vineyard with his family Thursday afternoon and kick back for 10 days. He's got a relentless unemployment rate to battle, an upcoming fall campaign season in which… Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch Debate Lingers Around Proposed Mosque Near Ground Zero The debate over whether a mosque should be built near Ground Zero continues to stir passions. President Obama said he had "no regrets" for weighing in on the controversy Wednesday. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from columnists Eugene Robinson and Ross… Continue watching