May 20 Watch Assad Forces Try to Retake Border Town With Help From Hezbollah In Syria, Assad government troops pushed to retake a strategic town close to the Lebanese border. Hezbollah fighters joined the Syrian regime army in laying siege to Qusayr, home to 40,000 civilians. Judy Woodruff reports on the growing involvement of… Continue watching
May 17 Watch Shields and Brooks on Government Scandals, Remembering Watergate Shields and Brooks on Government Scandals, Remembering Watergate… Continue watching
May 17 Watch As Outrage Grows, Military Makes Addressing Sexual Assault Top Priority As Outrage Grows, Military Makes Addressing Sexual Assault Top Priority… Continue watching
May 17 Watch Outgoing IRS Chief Admits Mistakes, but Dismisses Notion Scrutiny Was Political Outgoing IRS Chief Admits Mistakes, but Dismisses Notion Scrutiny Was Political… Continue watching
May 17 Cicada Sighting! Bug-Eyed Critters Emerging in Northern Virginia By Ray Suarez A cicada perches on a leaf of grass at Virginia's Bull Run Regional Park. The full brood of cicadas is expected to emerge en masse in late May or June. Photos by Jenny Marder. After an afternoon hunting for cicadas… Continue reading
May 17 Military Sexual Assault Crisis Prompts Congress to Act President Barack Obama met with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, right, and other Pentagon leaders at the White House Thursday to discuss sexual assault in the military. The U.S. Continue reading
May 17 House Committee Holds First Hearing on IRS Scandal The House Ways and Means Committee will hold the first hearing on the IRS scandal. Watch a live stream of the hearing. The former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, will take his place… Continue reading
May 17 A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings EmbedVideo(6481, 482, 304); The Watergate hearings began on May 17, 1973. Public Television aired all 250 hours of testimony that summer. Here are some of the highlights. Video edited by Justin Scuiletti The Watergate scandal began with a… Continue reading
May 17 Gwen’s Take: I See Your Benghazi and Raise You One IRS It was scandal week in Washington, but because of an accident of scheduling, I had the opportunity to view it through an altered lens. The president's week was turning into a very bad one -- with new revelations about… Continue reading
May 16 Watch 16:07 Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later With MacNeil And Lehrer By PBS News Hour On May 17, 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer launched public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Forty years later, the two recount their memories after some of the more gripping moments and how their partnership changed not… Continue watching