Mar 03 First Child Cured of HIV The first baby has been cured of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. The case was publicly unveiled at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. The infant, who is now two and a half years old,… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Shields and Brooks on the Cusp of Sequester, Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court Shields and Brooks on the Cusp of Sequester, Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court… Continue watching
Mar 01 Sequester Spotlight: Virginia’s Military Region The self-imposed March 1 deadline to broker a deal to avert across-the-board budget cuts in discretionary spending known as sequestration has passed and lawmakers have left town for the weekend. NewsHour is talking with our public media partner stations… Continue reading
Mar 01 Sequestration Spotlight: Research Community Gets Involved Add the nation's research community to those joining the chorus of upset voices decrying automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that will begin going into effect Friday. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is calling on Congress to develop a… Continue reading
Mar 01 Sequester Kicking In After Failure to Communicate President Barack Obama addressed sequestration in a press conference from the White House today. "This is not going to be an apocalypse. ... It's just dumb. And it's going to hurt," he said, referring to the $85 billion in cuts… Continue reading
Mar 01 With 50 Million Hungry in U.S., New Film Demands ‘A Place at the Table’ EmbedVideo(5858, 482, 304); The classroom sometimes gets a little blurry for Rosie, a fifth-grader in Colorado. And when it does -- when she starts picturing her teacher as a banana or her classmates as apples -- Rosie… Continue reading
Mar 01 Seawater Saltiness Seen from Space The ocean, by some estimates, holds enough salt to cover the entire surface of the Earth, layered to the height of a 40-story office building. Much of the salt in the ocean comes from rock that gets… Continue reading
Mar 01 Gwen’s Take: The Blame Game and Other Perplexing Things The man in my audience at Ohio University this week was exasperated. Why, he wondered, can't Washington get its act together? Why indeed? I can't say I had a good answer. But it was clear that -- in Athens,… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Egypt’s Economy in Dire Straits Two Years After Fall of Mubarak Two years after the rise of Arab Spring and the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's financial hardships have not improved under the considerable political unrest. Protests have crippled the country's tourism industry and construction in Cairo has ceased. Margaret Warner… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch Congress Extends Violence Against Women Act, Ending Standstill Congress Extends Violence Against Women Act, Ending Standstill… Continue watching