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
May 16 Watch Major Embryonic Stem Cell Advance Raises Ethical Quandaries Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have achieved a longtime goal. They cloned a human embryo to derive embryonic stem cells able to transform into tissues and organs genetically identical to patients who need them. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Demographic Shifts, Biblical Ideals Contribute to Evangelical Immigration Stance Demographic Shifts, Biblical Ideals Contribute to Evangelical Immigration Stance… Continue watching