Sep 17 Military Not Doing Enough to Curb Alcohol, Drug Abuse, IOM Concludes It's been well-documented that the military has a significant problem with suicide, substance abuse and mental disorders in its ranks. Just this summer, the Pentagon reported an 18 percent increase in suicide cases alone in just one year. In… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Facing Uncertainty, Middle Eastern Christians Are Increasingly Emigrating Facing Uncertainty, Middle Eastern Christians Are Increasingly Emigrating… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming… Continue watching
Sep 17 It's a Cub! National Zoo Celebrates Panda's Birth EmbedVideo(4474, 482, 304); Mei Xiang, the 14-year-old giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, gave birth to her second cub on Sept 16. The cub does not yet have a name and will not be on display for… Continue reading
Sep 17 David Souter Gets Rock Star Welcome, Offers Constitution Day Warning By Margaret Warner Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter speaks with Margaret Warner at 'Constitutionally Speaking' in Concord, N.H. on Sept. 14, 2012. Photo Courtesy David Wolowitz for the N.H. Supreme Court Society. Not since comedian Bill Cosby visited Concord, N.H.'s Capitol… Continue reading
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