Sep 07 Did Food Prices Spur the Arab Spring? By News Desk Parts of the Middle East and North Africa were historically considered the Fertile Crescent, but this region of abundance is now in decline, and some analysts say it's no coincidence that there is unrest growing in its place. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 'Engineering Ground Zero' Explores Challenges of Rebuilding Historic Site For more on this story go to www.pbs.org/newshour… Continue watching
Sep 07 Panetta Backs Plan to Extend Troop Stay in Iraq, 23 Dead in Pakistan Attack U.S. troops in Iraq. File photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye /AFP/Getty Images. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta voiced support for a plan that would retain as many as 4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq past the year-end deadline for withdrawal. The… Continue reading
Sep 07 Texans Displaced by Raging Fires Two Texas National Guard CH-46 Blackhawks fly over the flames to dump their water near Bastrop, Texas, Sept. 6, 2011. Photo via Flickr user The National Guard. GALVESTON, Texas - Flames tore through more than 550 homes near… Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch Pentagon Attack Widower: 'We Need to Go on' in Spite of Needless Suffering Pentagon Attack Widower: 'We Need to Go on' in Spite of Needless Suffering… Continue watching
Sep 06 'Better This World': POV Film Examines Plot Behind a Protest "Better this World" is the name of a film airing on POV Tuesday night, but it may as well be the credo and intentions behind the two central characters and their decision to protest the Republican National Convention in… Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch Amy Waldman reads from her novel 'The Submission' Amy Waldman reads from her novel 'The Submission'… Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch Conversation: Amy Waldman, Author of 'The Submission' For more on this story go to www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/… Continue watching
Sep 06 Negotiations Continue in Libya, Texas Wildfire Destroys 500 Homes Libyan rebels guard the last outpost before Bani Walid from the northern road towards Misrata. Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images. As Libyan rebels continue to negotiate with Moammar Gadhafi's remaining fighters ahead of Saturday's deadline to surrender, a convoy… Continue reading