May 20 Watch Coding Skills Combine With Civic Consciousness to Improve Government Coding Skills Combine With Civic Consciousness to Improve Government… Continue watching
May 20 Watch New Chapter Begins for U.S. Relations With Myanmar, Though Concerns Remain New Chapter Begins for U.S. Relations With Myanmar Though Concerns Remain… Continue watching
May 20 A High Tech Solution for a Neighborhood Problem By Cat Wise Correspondent Spencer Michels talks with the co-founders of Civic Insight, a technology startup aimed at helping cities like New Orleans tackle an ugly problem -- blight by makes real-time government data about a community's underutilized spaces. Continue reading
May 20 In Further Firming of Relations, Myanmar President Visits White House By Larisa Epatko Myanmar President Thein Sein becomes the first leader of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday. Their meeting is viewed as an affirmation of the Southeast Asian nation's democratic transition. Continue reading
May 20 Watch News Wrap: Sectarian Violence Continues in Iraq With Car Bombs in Baghdad, Basra In other news Monday, a wave of sectarian killings across Iraq left at least 95 people dead. It was the single-worst day of violence in Iraq in more than a year and a half. Also The New York Times reports… Continue watching
May 20 Watch Assad Forces Try to Retake Border Town With Help From Hezbollah In Syria, Assad government troops pushed to retake a strategic town close to the Lebanese border. Hezbollah fighters joined the Syrian regime army in laying siege to Qusayr, home to 40,000 civilians. Judy Woodruff reports on the growing involvement of… Continue watching
May 17 Watch News Wrap: Series of Explosions in Iraq Stokes Fears of Sectarian Violence In other news Friday, it was the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. A series of explosions struck Sunni Muslim areas, killing 76 people. Also, Wall Street finished with its fourth straight week of gains, encouraging hopes… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Obama, Turkey's Erdogan Reaffirm Urgency of Ending Bloodshed in Syria Obama, Turkey's Erdogan Reaffirm Urgency of Ending Bloodshed in Syria… Continue watching
May 16 Latest Forecast Shows the U.S. Drought Moving West By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Last year's drought scorched over half of country last year. Now that drought is shifting towards the Southwest and western Plains, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which held a meeting on summer drought outlook Thursday in… Continue reading
May 16 Turkish Prime Minister Talks Syria with Obama at White House Watch the full joint press conference from Wednesday with President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who discuss the current issues regarding a political transition in Syria. President Obama also addressed questions on domestic issues, including… Continue reading