Sep 23 Life in lockdown near Kenya’s besieged mall Smoke billows from the roof of the four-story Westgate shopping mall where a number of hostages have been kept for three days in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Ahmet Erkan Yigitsozlu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. The gunfire "sounded as if it were… Continue reading
Sep 23 Obama Calls for Nation Shocked by Gun Tragedies to ‘Change’ By Terence Burlij President Obama embraces a family member after delivering remarks on Sept. 22 in remembrance of the victims of the Navy Yard shootings. Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images. "If we really want to honor these 12… Continue reading
Sep 22 On the first day of fall: Could climate change mean a less colorful season? Today's the day to do every summer-related activity you've been putting off, because at 4:44 p.m. EDT, the season officially changes and as the days pass, everything will begin to look a little more like this: Credit: Flickr/Ed Schipul… Continue reading
Sep 22 Food stamps by the numbers Graphics credit: Lisa Overton/NewsHour Weekend After a showdown in the House ended with a vote to cut the nation's food stamp program by $40 billion, the controversial measure is headed to the Senate. Continue reading
Sep 20 House Prepared to Vote on Funding, Obamacare Cut By Terence Burlij Photo of Tom DeLay at the Capitol by Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call You've gotta wonder what Tom DeLay must think of all this. Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Pope: Church’s Moral Edifice Will Fall ‘Like a House of Cards’ Without Balance Pope: Church's Moral Edifice Will Fall 'Like a House of Cards' Without Balance… Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch Calif. City Contemplates Using Eminent Domain to Solve Its Foreclosure Crisis Calif. City Contemplates Using Eminent Domain to Solve Their Foreclosure Crisis… Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch What Are the Motives Behind Iran’s ‘Charm Offensive’? Iran's President Hassan Rouhani is reaching out to the U.S. and the world in ways his predecessors never did. Gwen Ifill talks to Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson International… Continue watching
Sep 19 House Strategy Tees Up Showdown Over Budget, Debt Limit By Terence Burlij Photo of John Boehner by Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call. House Republicans emerged from a closed-door meeting Wednesday seemingly united behind a strategy that would give members a pair of opportunities to either defund or delay President Barack Obama's health… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch Defense Secretary Hagel on Security: ‘We Need To Do More — And We Will’ Defense Secretary Hagel on Security: 'We Need To Do More -- And We Will.'… Continue watching