May 05 New Details Emerge in Bin Laden Raid; Pakistan Questions Legality of Operation By Tom LeGro President Barack Obama meets with members of the national security team on the Osama bin Laden operation. (White House photo by Pete Souza) New details about the Sunday raid on Osama bin Laden's fortified compound in Pakistan indicate that U.S. Continue reading
May 04 Watch In Misrata Port, Ship Braves Shelling to Save Patients, Migrant Workers In Libya, five people were killed amid shelling Wednesday as they waited for an aid ship to rescue migrant workers and trauma patients from a hospital in Misrata. Alex Thomson of Independent Television News reports on the harrowing mission in… Continue watching
May 04 Watch FEMA Chief Fugate on Challenges of Widespread Storm Recovery Needs The Army Corps of Engineers is considering whether to blow up more levees along the Mississippi River after destroying a Missouri levee to save an Illinois town. Judy Woodruff talks with Federal Emergency Management Agency Chief Craig Fugate about the… Continue watching
May 04 Watch How Does Bin Laden's Death Change U.S. Equation in Af-Pak Region? Osama bin Laden's death has opened new debate over whether U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan should begin withdrawing before the original July start date. France's foreign minister said his country is considering just that. Jeffrey Brown discusses the war's… Continue watching
May 04 Watch Obama's Bin Laden Photo Decision: Move on or More Proof? Citing national security risks, President Obama said Wednesday that photos of Osama bin Laden's body will not be released. Ray Suarez discusses the president's decision and its effects with former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke and former Deputy National… Continue watching
May 04 China Tries to Kick the Public Smoking Habit By Talea Miller Smoker in Nanjing, China. Photo by Flickr user J. Unrau. When the NewsHour's global health team visited China last year for stories on tobacco, obesity and other health issues, they found a smoker's paradise and an anti-tobacco advocate's nightmare. Continue reading
May 04 Gwen Ifill: Getting the Bin Laden Story By Gwen Ifill My flight from Seattle had just touched down at Reagan Washington National airport late Sunday night when I clicked on my BlackBerry. It immediately began buzzing with an alarming stream of emails and tweets. An hour later, the president… Continue reading
May 04 How News of Bin Laden's Death Has Reverberated Around the U.S. By Lauren Knapp As the world digests the news that Osama bin Laden is dead, we collected reporting from public media outlets for a glimpse at the conversations taking place around the nation about bin Laden and the post-9/11 era. Security and the… Continue reading
May 04 Abbottabad: How Did Bin Laden Hide in This 'Sleepy' Town? By Larisa Epatko Bullet holes riddle the walls of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was hiding -- one of the few remaining signs of the U.S. siege that ended up killing the most wanted man in the… Continue reading
May 04 A historical timeline of Afghanistan By News Desk The land that is now Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions. Continue reading