Sep 05 The Party’s Over: Post-revolution, Egyptians Struggle to Find Their Future By Margaret Warner Streets of Cairo. Photo by Jana Mills via Flickr Creative Commons. CAIRO, EGYPT -- What a difference seven months make. The Cairo I left on Feb. 12 -- the morning after Egypt's longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak abandoned the presidency… Continue reading
Sep 05 Flight 93 Memorial to ‘Standing Up’ Set to Open in Pennsylvania By Larisa Epatko Ten years after the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 fought back against their hijackers, driving the airplane into the ground instead of the intended target in the nation's capital, a permanent memorial will open in Shanksville, Pa. Continue reading
Sep 02 10 Years Later, 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Linger in Pakistan By Larisa Epatko Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, many Pakistanis still don't know who perpetrated the assault, according to GlobalPost's Pakistan reporter Suzanna Koster. Continue reading
Aug 30 Poll: Many Employees Don’t Want Changes In Their Health Insurance By Jordan Rau Employees love to gripe about rising health care costs, but a new poll finds most are not willing to sacrifice to pay less for their insurance. Only 27 percent of people with insurance provided through their employer said they… Continue reading
Aug 27 Hurricane Irene Makes Landfall; Moves North With Hammering Rains, Wind By News Desk Waves from Hurricane Irene pound the beach in Ocean City, Maryland. Photo by Getty Images. 5:00 p.m. ET Irene has been pushing northward up the Eastern Seaboard at 13 mph, with maximum sustained winds still near 85 mph and higher… Continue reading
Aug 26 Hurricane Irene Swipes Carolinas, Parts of New York City Under Mandatory Evacuation Orders By News Desk 3:25 p.m. ET | Hurricane Irene began sweeping past North and South Carolina Friday afternoon, lashing the coastline with heavy rain and wind. With winds of 39 miles per hour, there were reports of downed power lines and thousands… Continue reading
Aug 25 Hurricane Irene Strengthening, Va., N.J., N.Y. and N.C. Declare States of Emergency By News Desk Track the path of Hurricane Irene: See the storm surge probabilities on a map 4:30 p.m. ET | New York governor Andrew Cuomo has also declared a state of emergency, and local officials are considering the… Continue reading
Aug 24 Category 3 Hurricane Irene Moves Toward East Coast By News Desk Evacuations were in progress Wednesday on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island as Hurricane Irene, which strengthened to a Category 3, bore down on the Bahamas before on its way north toward the East Coast, where it will likely hit this weekend. Continue reading
Aug 18 America Remembers 9/11: Your Answers on What’s Changed in 10 Years As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks draws closer, The PBS NewsHour and our public media colleagues have been seeking out your views on what's changed in the United States over the past decade. Some of you have… Continue reading
Aug 17 Proposed Rules Call for ‘Apples-to-Apples’ Health Insurance Comparison By Jason Kane Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images Finding the cheapest insurance plan for diabetes or breast cancer patients may soon be just as easy as flipping soup cans to compare calorie counts and sodium content. Under a set of proposed federal regulations… Continue reading