Jul 28 Watch Lagarde on 'Worrisome' U.S. Debt Debate, Eurozone's Future In a newsmaker interview with Margaret Warner on Thursday, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, Christine Lagarde, discusses the U.S. debt ceiling debate and the current state of the eurozone's economic struggles. Continue watching
Jul 28 Watch Lagarde Warns Dollar Could Decline if U.S. Debt Deal Not Reached Lagarde Warns Dollar Could Decline if U.S. Debt Deal Not Reached… Continue watching
Jul 28 Lagarde Warns Dollar Could Decline if U.S. Debt Deal Not Reached By Larisa Epatko The International Monetary Fund's managing director Christine Lagarde said Thursday in a PBS NewsHour interview that if U.S. lawmakers can't reach an agreement on the debt ceiling, one of the global impacts could be a loss of confidence in the… Continue reading
Jul 28 NewsHour Connect: Heat Wave Imperils Midwest Agriculture By Justin Scuiletti // Temperatures have been rising in the Midwest this summer -- and with them, food prices may also be heading upward. As heat waves have been blanketing much of the nation in temperatures over 100 degrees, agriculture has been… Continue reading
Jul 28 Humala Sworn in as Peru's President By News Desk Ollanta Humala, a former army officer, was sworn in as Peru's new president Thursday after narrowly defeating Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori, in a second-round vote in June. Continue reading
Jul 28 Historic Flooding, Landslides Kill at Least 49 in South Korea By News Desk South Korean soldiers remove tons of mud after a flood caused by heavy rains hit the area around an apartment complex in Seoul on Thursday. Photo by Park Ji-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images. Unrelenting rain pounding Seoul, South Korea, and the southern part… Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch Libyan Businessman, Adviser to Rebels: 'It's Miserable in Tripoli' Libyan Adviser to Rebels: 'Miserable' in Tripoli Amid Gadhafi Stalemate… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch News Wrap: Kandahar Mayor Assassinated in Suicide Bombing In other news Wednesday, the mayor of Kandahar was assassinated in southern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a heavily fortified government compound. Also, the prime minister of Norway announced that an independent commission would investigate how… Continue watching
Jul 27 Special Report: Thailand's Islamic Rebellion By Larisa Epatko Our partners at GlobalPost explore the increasingly dangerous separatist movement in southern Thailand and how people are responding in a series of reports posted this week on its website. Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch Breivik's Lawyer: 'He Expected to Be Killed' Authorities in Norway have begun to publicly identify some of the victims of the Friday terror attacks. Independent Television News' Carl Dinnen reports on the latest developments including some new insights about Anders Behring Breivik from his attorney. Continue watching