Apr 20 Watch How Are Libyans Coping With Food, Medicine Shortages? Food, Medicine Shortages Among Woes in Libya… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch Along Gulf Coast, Cautious Optimism for Future a Year After Oil Spill Began Compensation Disputes Among Lingering Impacts of Gulf Spill… Continue watching
Apr 20 Gulf Oil Spill: 1 Year and 232 Stories Later It was a year ago Wednesday that a massive oil spill began in the Gulf of Mexico with an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. It took three months to seal the underwater oil gusher, and the region… Continue reading
Apr 20 Global Fund Hit by Millions of Dollars in Malaria Drug Thefts By Talea Miller Child with severe malaria in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Millions of dollars worth of malaria medication donated through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria may have been lost to theft, according to internal documents obtained by… Continue reading
Apr 20 A Year in Photos: Capturing the Lingering Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill Over the course of the last year, the NewsHour has been checking in with Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert, a New Orleans native who began covering the Gulf oil spill when BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and… Continue reading
Apr 20 One Year Later, Where Has All the Oil Gone? By Jenny Marder The Gulf of Mexico has always been an oily place. Early sea captains wrote in their log books of slicks of oil. Mayan Indians used natural tars to seal their water jugs and waterproof their canoes. As many as 50… Continue reading
Apr 20 Britain, France, Italy Sending Military Advisers to Libya; Wildfires Hit Texas By News Desk Italy and France announced they will follow Britain's lead in sending a small team of military advisers to Libya to assist the rebel forces. None of the countries are planning to send ground troops. Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul Ati… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch Will Uptick in Violence Derail U.S. Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan? Ray Suarez talks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran about the rising violence in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Apr 19 Watch Joel Achenbach Explores Gulf Oil Spill in ‘A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea; Hari Sreenivasan talks to Washington Post reporter and author Joel Achenbach. Continue watching
Apr 19 Analysts: A ‘Make or Break’ Moment for Syria’s Assad By Robert Zeliger For nearly five weeks President Bashar al-Assad faced growing unrest in Syria without giving any significant ground. His security forces cracked down -- often violently -- on protesters. His Interior Ministry this week described the protests as an insurrection… Continue reading