Feb 08 White House Report: Maneuvers Ahead of Sequester Deadline President Obama urged Congress to take action to avoid sequester cuts with a short term budget fix at the White House on February 5, 2013. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The next set of automatic budget cuts in the… Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch Shields and Brooks on DOJ Drone Memo, Brennan Hearing, Syria Strategy Shields and Brooks on DOJ Drone Memo, Brennan Hearing, Syria Strategy… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch New Discoveries From NASA's 'Curiosity' Rover's Mission to Mars New Discoveries From NASA's 'Curiosity' Rover's Mission to Mars… Continue watching
Feb 08 Earliest Placental Mammal Described in Breathtaking Detail Some 65 million years ago, an asteroid possibly as big as Mount Everest plowed into the Earth, wiping about 70 percent of all species, including dinosaurs, off the planet. Why this event killed off the dinosaurs but spared other species,… Continue reading
Feb 07 A Look at Senate Appointees as Cowan Joins Their Ranks Vice President Joe Biden, right, swears in Senator-designate William "Mo" Cowan Thursday. Cowan will fill the senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry, left, until a special election in June. Also pictured are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, second… Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch To Lower Dropout Rates, Finding Potential Where Support Systems Are Lacking To Lower Dropout Rates, Finding Potential Where Support Systems Are Lacking… Continue watching
Feb 07 Watch California Shooter May Have Named Victims in Online List Ray Suarez talks with Frank Stoltze of Southern California Public Radio about the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, a former police officer believed to be on a deadly shooting spree. Dorner is thought to have killed the daughter of a police… Continue watching
Feb 07 Watch Brennan Defends Drone, Intelligence Policies at CIA Confirmation Hearing Brennan Defends Intelligence, Drone Policies at CIA Confirmation Hearing… Continue watching
Feb 07 Enrichment Programs Fill Opportunity Gap for Students Saymirah Cornelius-McClam, an 8th grader at Rainier Scholars, hopes to one day become a forensic scientist. She told NewsHour, "Without this help that I'm getting now, I probably would be totally confused in a couple of years." Photo by… Continue reading
Feb 07 Gwen's Take: Happy 100th Birthday, Rosa Parks Rosa Parks would have celebrated her 100th birthday Monday. The civil rights leader died in 2005. Photo by Associated Press. We know instinctively that not everything we come to believe as history is true. But we want it to… Continue reading