Feb 27 Powerful Earthquake Strikes Chile; Hawaii on Edge After Tsunami Warning Update 7:40pm EST As Chile raced to assess the damage from Saturday's powerful earthquake, Hawaii canceled its tsunami warning after hours of waiting and watching its shores for dangerous waves triggered by the temblor. "We dodged a bullet,"… Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch News Wrap: Fresh Powder Pounds U.S. Northeast In other news Friday, another major snowstorm pounded the Northeastern U.S. with high winds knocking out power across the region. News of positive growth in the U.S. economy last quarter was tempered by continued lags in consumer spending and plummets… Continue watching
Feb 25 Watch News Wrap: Afghan Troops Capture Taliban Stronghold In other news Thursday, Afghan troops officially declared control over the Taliban in the southern Afghanistan city of Marjah, and a U.S. missile strike killed a Taliban commander in Pakistan. Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch U.N. Under-Secretary General Updates Needs in Haiti Nearly 600,000 people are still without shelter as the rains begin to fall in Port-au-Prince. Ray Suarez speaks to Under-Secretary General John Holmes of the United Nations about Haiti's long journey of rebuilding ahead and the state of the relief… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch Tough, Low-Cost Wheelchairs Needed in Haiti Spencer Michels reports on efforts in San Francisco to design and build heavy-duty, low-cost wheelchairs for use in the rough terrain of Haiti and around the third world. Continue watching
Feb 17 Haiti Releases 8 U.S. Missionaries By Jason Breslow A judge in Haiti has freed eight of the 10 American missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping after trying to bring 33 child survivors of last month's earthquake to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil… Continue reading
Feb 12 David Brooks on Snowpocalypse, Democrats’ Waning Momentum By Hari Sreenivasan With snow and traffic preventing his political sparring partner Mark Shields from making it to the NewsHour studios, David Brooks made a special solo appearance on The Rundown after Shields and Brooks had their weekly chat about the top political… Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch News Wrap: Bill Clinton Home After Heart Procedure In other news Friday, former President Bill Clinton returned home after an overnight hospitalization following a heart procedure and much of the Deep South was paralyzed as a rare winter storm deposited several inches of snow. Continue watching
Feb 11 Former President Clinton Hospitalized, Undergoes Heart Procedure Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday in New York after complaining about chest pain. A statement released by Douglas Band, a counselor to Clinton, read: "Today President Bill Clinton was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New… Continue reading
Feb 11 Thursday: Iran Declares Nuclear Success; East Shovels Out; Greece Will Get Aid As hundreds of thousands of government supporters rallied Thursday in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the occasion to declare that Iran had produced its first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium. Continue reading