Apr 29 Watch Jason Collins Is NBA's First Active Player to Say 'I'm Gay' Jason Collins, a 34-year-old veteran NBA player, has become the first male pro-athlete currently playing one of the four big sports to come out and say he's gay. Jeffrey Brown talks with LZ Granderson, sports writer and columnist for ESPN… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch Congress Seeks to Eliminate Perk of Online Shopping by Requiring Sales Tax Congress Seeks to Eliminate Perk of Online Shopping by Requiring Sales Tax… Continue watching
Apr 29 After Coming Out, Jason Collins Gets Support from Across the NBA Sports Illustrated's May 6 cover features NBA center Jason Collins, who is openly gay. Jason Collins made headlines this morning as the first male athlete from a major U.S. professional league to announce that he is gay. The NBA… Continue reading
Apr 29 Little Consensus Among Lawmakers on Next Steps With Syria President Obama discusses the crisis Syria with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office last week. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. There appeared to be widespread agreement among lawmakers Sunday that the U.S. must… Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch Obama Raises Concerns About Syrian Chemical Weapon Use in Call to Russia Syria's Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi survived an assassination attempt in Damascus, where he was the target of a car bombing. Judy Woodruff reports on the latest violence in the Syrian war, as well as how the U.S. is grappling… Continue watching
Apr 26 Judy Woodruff Recounts Day President Reagan Was Shot EmbedVideo(6320, 482, 304); March 30, 1981 was a routine day for Judy Woodruff as she traveled with the press pool to cover a speech by President Ronald Reagan, two months into his presidency, at the Washington Hilton. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs… Continue watching
Apr 26 Watch Public Feeling Pain of Delays, House Passes Bill to End Furloughs at the FAA Public Feeling Pain of Delays, Congress Passes Bill to End Furloughs at the FAA… Continue watching
Apr 26 Maternal Health Hotline Helps Malawians Stay Connected By Imani Cheers [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcn5fN8mnc&w=480&h=270] Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. With a population of roughly 15 million, an estimated 60 percent of women report having… Continue reading
Apr 26 Non-Citizens Would Earn Legal Status Under Immigration Bill, Meissner Says EmbedVideo(6319, 482, 304); Doris Meissner, director of the Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says the current proposed immigration bill offers "earned legalization" rather than amnesty. Provisions in an immigration reform bill introduced earlier this month would… Continue reading