Mar 22 This Week on the Hill: Gay Marriage Advocates Line Up for Court Hearings The Capitol Lawn cleared out during Irish Prime Minster Edna Kenny's visit to the Hill on Tuesday. Photo by Allie Morris/NewsHour. The political team took a look at the week that was on Capitol Hill. Got a tidbit? Email… Continue reading
Mar 22 Big Bang Afterglow Reveals Older Universe, More Matter, Slower Expansion A new map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the precision by the Planck mission. Image by ESA and the Planck Collaboration. You may have seen this map, which has been making the rounds since… Continue reading
Mar 22 Startupland: Ireland Climbing out of Recession One Chip at a Time By Ray Suarez Trams on Dublin's new light rail system stop for passengers. Photos by Ray Suarez/PBS NewsHour. There's no oil. The domestic market is small, and scared. Overseas customers who once made you rich are now in economic crisis. After a… Continue reading
Mar 21 Progress on Immigration Reform Leaves Rep. Gutierrez Elated and Wary Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., center at the podium, has long advocated for the comprehensive immigration reform. In November 2012, the representative stood with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and announced a declaration of nine principles for comprehensive… Continue reading
Mar 21 From War Zones to Museum Walls, Capturing the Iraq War at Eye Level Photographer Thorne Anderson captured this image in Najaf, Iraq, in 2004 while working as a freelancer covering the Iraq War. When photographers go into the field to cover a war, it would seem that making art to hang in… Continue reading
Mar 21 Judy’s Notebook: Three Years Later, Still in the Dark on the Affordable Care Act We've moved on to other news stories since then: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf, the shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Arab Spring, the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the 2012 presidential campaign, for… Continue reading
Mar 21 Deepa Gangwani: Fomenting Change for Indian Trash Collectors EmbedVideo(6003, 482, 304); Deepa Gangwani explains how her group Together as One field-tested a cheaper cook stove. A shocking incident involving her maid and a trash collector helped set Deepa Gangwani on her quest to help the poor… Continue reading
Mar 21 Budget Battle Heats Up as Threat of Shutdown Fades The U.S. Capitol. Photo by Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images. With the Senate having advanced a bill Wednesday to avert a government shutdown and the House expected to follow suit Thursday, lawmakers are already embroiled in their next… Continue reading
Mar 21 Veteran Iraq War Reporters Reflect 10 Years On Martha Raddatz in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2007. For the journalists covering the Iraq war, the experience was in many ways unlike any other war. If you were part of the invasion -- which began this week 10 years ago… Continue reading
Mar 21 The Assault Weapons Ban as Understood by a 2nd Amendment Scholar EmbedVideo(6004, 514, 320); Kwame Holman speaks with Second Amendment expert Joyce Lee Malcolm. With news that Sen. Dianne Feinstein's, D-Calif., recent assault weapons ban will not get a vote on the Senate floor, PBS NewsHour examined the… Continue reading