Sep 16 Iran Watching as U.S. Military Launches Exercise in Strait of Hormuz By David Chalian KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait | The United States, along with more than 27 other countries from four different continents, began Sunday the largest ever military exercise aimed at practicing how to find and destroy sea mines in the waters of the… Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch Four Years After Bailouts, Banks Have Bounced Back, Still Making Risky Bets Four Years After Bailouts, Banks Have Bounced Back, Still Making Risky Bets… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch Margaret Warner Talk With Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter By Christina Bellantoni Watch NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner host a conversation with retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter starting at 6 p.m. The sold-out event is being held at the Capitol Center for the Arts to kickoff a new project called Constitutionally… Continue reading
Sep 14 What Would the Automatic Budget Cuts Mean for Medicare? Medicare providers would see reductions of about $11 billion beginning in January as part of a series of automatic spending cuts set to begin next year unless Congress acts to halt them, according to estimates released Friday by the… Continue reading
Sep 14 $1 Billion a Year in Military Aid to Egypt for 40 Years: Just Keep Giving? Yemeni protesters gather around fire during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa over a film mocking Islam. Yemeni forces managed to drive out angry protesters who stormed the embassy with police firing warning shots. Photo by Mohammed… Continue reading
Sep 12 A Million Dollars for an Extra Year of Life? ‘It’s my tax dollars!’ Tracy Morgan with her husband Mark before he died of brain cancer in 2011. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's query: Name:… Continue reading
Sep 11 Upcoming Votes Test European Debt Crisis Response A worker in Utrecht, the Netherlands, hangs a poster of one of the parties taking part in Wednesday's Dutch parliamentary elections. Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images. Updated on Sept. 12: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday gave the green… Continue reading
Sep 11 What Does the Solman Scale Say about Unemployment? An applicant speaks with a prospective employer at a New York job fair. Photo by Getty Images/John Moore. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch Democracy Still Fragile in Iraq, Where Sectarian Tensions Reach Breaking Point Bridging Sectarian Divides Among Iraq's Majority Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds… Continue watching
Sep 10 Watch Iraq’s Sunni Vice President Says Death Sentence is Politically Motivated Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, was sentenced to death in absentia by an Iraqi court for overseeing death squads which killed government officials and opposition leaders from 2006 to 2011. From exile in Turkey, Hashemi reaffirmed his innocence and… Continue watching