Oct 25 Gadhafi Buried in Undisclosed Desert Location By News Desk A Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter stands guard on October 25, 2011 outside the door leading into a market freezer in Misrata where Gadhafi's body had been on display. Photo by Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images. Libyan officials say the body… Continue reading
Oct 21 Shields, Brooks on VP Switcheroos, Occupy Movement, World Series Picks By Hari Sreenivasan Why are there rumors every presidential cycle that the incumbent will switch his (so far his) vice president out for someone else? That is topic No. 1 on this week's Doubleheader: the potential for Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary… Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch Shields, Brooks on Iraq Withdrawal, Gadhafi’s Demise, Feisty GOP Debate Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news, including the killing of Moammar Gadhafi, President Obama's announcement of U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraq by the end of the year, plus the… Continue watching
Oct 21 NATO: Mission in Libya to End October 31 By News Desk 4:15 p.m.ET | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO officials had agreed Friday to wind down their mission in Libya at the end of the month, a decision that will be formalized next week. Rasmussen said the seven-month… Continue reading
Oct 20 A Visual Look Back at the Libyan Revolution Thursday's death of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi concluded a bloody nine-month uprising and set off wild celebrations across the North African nation that the erratic dictator ruled with an iron fist for more than four decades. From the early… Continue reading
Oct 20 Live Updates: Moammar Gadhafi Killed in Sirte By News Desk Warning: This post contains graphic imagery. 6 p.m. ET | Interim Libyan government officials said Gadhafi's son and former national security adviser Muatassim was killed in Sirte, and another son, Seif al-Islam, was wounded and in a hospital. 5:22 p.m. Continue reading
Oct 14 Shields and Brooks on Herman Cain, Occupy Movement, Detroit, iPhone 4S By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's edition of The Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and I chat about Herman Cain's surge in recent polls, the merits of his 9-9-9 plan (see the fact-check of… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Shields, Brooks on Cain’s Poll Surge, ‘Hunger for Something Else’ in GOP Race Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks weigh in on the week's top political news, including Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's recent surge in the polls, how much religion is factoring into the GOP race for Mitt Romney and others, the… Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Shields, Brooks on Romney’s Electability, Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan, Wall St. Protests Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks weigh in on the week's top political news, including GOP contender Mitt Romney's foreign policy vision and electability, rival Republican candidate Herman Cain's "9-9-9" plan to overhaul the U.S. tax code, plus the Occupy… Continue watching
Oct 06 ‘Prosecutor’ Looks Behind-the-Scenes at the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court meets people in the remote village of Zumbe, D.R. Congo, the site of a brutal massacre. Photo courtesy Sheila Velez, White Pine Pictures On Thursday's NewsHour, we feature an… Continue reading