May 12 For Romney, a Health Care Conundrum Likely 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to make a speech about health care. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a tough assignment Thursday when he takes the stage at… Continue reading
Apr 29 The Doubleheader: Oil Subsidies, Town Halls, Drafts and Playoffs By Hari Sreenivasan As many as "two billion" viewers may watch tonight's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks. Though I do not have the finely tuned research apparatus of the British Cultural Affairs Minister to… Continue reading
Apr 22 Shields and Brooks on Debt Ceilings, Dodgers Takeover and NHL Playoffs By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, we discussed how the arguments over the U.S. debt ceiling don't seem to be disappearing. While Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has made… Continue reading
Apr 21 Deepwater Horizon Survivor Chris Choy: ‘I Can’t Go Back Onto a Rig’ By Dave Gustafson With this week marking the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and start of the Gulf oil spill, we checked back with Christopher Choy, a roustabout who survived the blast on the rig, to see how he is… Continue reading
Apr 21 ‘Louisiana Water Stories’ Documents the Culture and Curses of SOLA In southern Louisiana, life revolves around the water. Half of Louisiana's residents live in coastal areas, and nearly 30 percent of America's seafood comes from the Gulf region. Jon Bowermaster's latest documentary, "SOLA: Louisiana Water Stories", looks at… Continue reading
Apr 20 Gulf Oil Spill: 1 Year and 232 Stories Later It was a year ago Wednesday that a massive oil spill began in the Gulf of Mexico with an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. It took three months to seal the underwater oil gusher, and the region… Continue reading
Apr 20 A Year in Photos: Capturing the Lingering Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill Over the course of the last year, the NewsHour has been checking in with Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert, a New Orleans native who began covering the Gulf oil spill when BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and… Continue reading
Apr 19 On BP Gusher Anniversary, Achenbach Gauges Deepwater Drilling’s Future A disaster that began with a deadly explosion in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico became a months-long drama that captured the world's attention and drew increased scrutiny to undersea oil drilling. With Wednesday marking the first anniversary of… Continue reading
Apr 19 One Year Later, Louisianans Still Recovering From Gulf Oil Spill Wednesday marks the one year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 workers and sent more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf waters… Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Gadhafi’s Forces, Rebels Battle for Control of Misrata Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi continued attacks on Misrata as Gadhafi's government reached a deal with the United Nations to provide humanitarian aid to the western part of the country. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News reports on the latest… Continue watching