Dec 20 Watch Hearings on Benghazi Attack Focus on Painful Lessons, Priorities, Party Politics Hearings on Benghazi Attack Focus on Painful Lessons, Priorities, Party Politics… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch Understanding Why Delivering Aid Can Be a Dangerous Endeavor While aid groups operate with apolitical, humanitarian intentions, workers trying to bring relief in the middle of conflicts often find themselves in danger. Ray Suarez talks to Joel Charny of InterAction about the recent deaths of health workers trying to… Continue watching
Dec 20 Superheated Jet Dominates Black Hole A University of Maryland astrophysicist makes a discovery that could change the way we understand the behavior of black holes. Continue reading
Dec 20 ‘I Have Seen My Death’: How the World Discovered the X-Ray By Dr. Howard Markel An X-ray of a gunshot victim in Kyauk Taw, Myanmar. Photo by Kaung Htet/Getty Images. In a regular column on the PBS NewsHour website, Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the… Continue reading
Dec 20 Democrats Set Stage for Supreme Court Defense of Voting Rights Act Provision By Kwame Holman The U.S. Supreme Court building. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. With the Supreme Court set to hear a challenge to a main provision of the Voting Rights Act in February, advocates argued Wednesday that the November elections only underscored the… Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch Program on Polio Eradication Suspended in Pakistan After 9 Aid Workers Killed At least nine people have been killed for their involvement in Pakistan's polio eradication campaign to deliver vaccines to 33 million children. The World Health Organization and UNICEF announced a temporary suspension of the vaccination campaign due to safety concerns. Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch Remembering Robert Bork: Law-and-Order Conservative, Supreme Court Nominee Judge Remembering Robert Bork: Law-and-Order Conservative, Supreme Court Nominee Judge… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch Sen. Joe Lieberman Reflects on 24 Years in the Senate, Sandy Hook, Partisanship Sen. Joe Lieberman Reflects on 24 Years in the Senate, Sandy Hook, Partisanship… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch Providing Appropriate Security at Embassies and Preventing Future Attacks Abroad Providing Appropriate Security at Embassies and Preventing Future Attacks Abroad… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch Examining the Efficacy and Limitations of Gun Control Laws to Stop Violence Examining the Efficacy and Limitations of Gun Control Laws to Stop Violence… Continue watching