Jul 26 USDA: Severe Drought Will Drive Up Cost of Food The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continue reading
Jul 26 Hey, Isn’t That… Kim Jong Un’s Wife? By Larisa Epatko Spotted: Smartly dressed woman on the arm of North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un, strolling through an amusement park and attending official events. Continue reading
Jul 26 In Syria, Rebels Celebrate Successes, But Sectarian Violence Grows By Larisa Epatko Kelly McEvers, NPR's foreign correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon, spent a week in rebel-held areas along the Turkish-Syrian border. She filed a week's worth of reports for NPR, and on Thursday she's coming to the NewsHour to talk about what she… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch Arab Nations Consider How to Apply More Diplomatic Pressure on Syria Arab Nations Consider How to Apply More Diplomatic Pressure on Syria… Continue watching
Jul 25 Minor League: Arab Regional Group Tries to Step Up Its Game By Lauren Knapp Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Kamel Amr arrive on a buggy to attend the Arab League ministerial meeting on the Syrian crisis in the Qatari capital Doha on July 22. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch News Wrap: United Kingdom Reports Recession Worse than Expected In other news Wednesday, newly released figures show the British economy has fallen deeper into recession than predicted. Also, officials in Anaheim, Cal., called for a cease to a four-day run of violence in reaction to the weekend killing of… Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch Syrian Regime ‘Relentless’ in Attack; ‘Hard-Line Islamic Influence’ Among Rebels Fighting continued for a fifth day in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Reports and footage reveal that alongside rebels, al-Qaida fighters are present on the battlefront. Independent Television News' Alex Thomson reports on the evidence that suggests al-Qaida might be… Continue watching
Jul 24 Watch As Rebels Advance, Syrian Government Retaliates with Attack Helicopters As Rebels Advance, Syrian Government Retaliates with Attack Helicopters… Continue watching
Jul 24 At VFW, Romney, Obama Surface Foreign Policy Rhetoric In a peg to national security this week, President Obama and Mitt Romney addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev. The president spoke Monday and Romney followed Tuesday. Romney outlined his foreign policy clashes with President Obama… Continue reading