Jun 05 Christie Under Fire From Both Parties After Special Election Announcement New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie outlines plans for a special election to be held to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat of the late Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg. By calling for a special election to fill the… Continue reading
Jun 04 Watch Storms, Science and Risk: Challenges Facing Extreme Weather Researchers Storms, Science and Risk: Challenges Facing Extreme Weather Researchers… Continue watching
Jun 04 Live Chat With Jeffrey Brown Forty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer reporting on the Watergate scandal laid the groundwork for what would become the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, known today as the PBS NewsHour. Jeffrey Brown interviews ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Over the next… Continue reading
Jun 03 Watch High Court Says Police Can Collect DNA From People Arrested for Serious Crimes High Court Says Police Can Collect DNA From People Arrested for Serious Crimes… Continue watching
Jun 03 Supreme Court Rules Police Can Swab for DNA Upon Arrest By News Desk // Watch this discussion with Ray Suarez and National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle about the oral hearings on King v. Maryland at the U.S. Supreme Court. This piece first aired in February 2013. Read a full transcript of the… Continue reading
Jun 03 Will Government Probes Crowd Out Policy Debates? Tea party activists protest against the IRS last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Official Washington begins the month of June with a massive agenda set against a backdrop of scandal politics that… Continue reading
May 31 Watch Shields and Brooks on Sending Arms to Syria, Impending Comey Nomination Shields and Brooks on Sending Arms to Syria, Obama Taps James Comey for FBI Head… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Leader of Free Syrian Army on Civil War's Game Changer and Spillover Effects Leader of the Free Syrian Army on the War's Game Changer and Spillover Effects… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Presidential Push to Stop Sky-High Student Loan Interest Rates Presidential Push to Stop Sky High Student Loan Interest Rates… Continue watching
May 31 Medicare Trust Fund's Life Extended, But What Does It Really Mean? Slower growth in spending is helping extend the life of Medicare's hospital trust fund to 2026, two years beyond last year's estimate, officials said Friday. They also reported, however, that Social Security's disability trust fund, which pays monthly… Continue reading