Aug 25 Law & Disorder: The Missteps of NOPD After Katrina By Hari Sreenivasan We talked this week with A.C. Thompson, one of the reporters from ProPublica who has been investigating the New Orleans Police Department in the years since Hurricane Katrina. He has been exploring reports of specific acts of excessive force… Continue reading
Aug 25 Notes From an Embed in Iraq: A Lesson Learned By Margaret Warner MOSUL, Iraq | We're out in a nine-humvee convoy with Federal Police Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey, whose Baghdad-based unit has the job of weeding anti-government insurgents out of western Mosul far to the north. It's the most dangerous section of… Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch Odierno: Iraqis Will Be Able to Handle Security Margaret Warner talks to Army Gen. Raymond Odierno about the state of security in Iraq as the U.S. scales back combat operations. Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch Wave of Violence in Iraq Kills More Than 50 More than 50 Iraqis died Wednesday in more than two dozen separate attacks across Iraq. Margaret Warner has more. Continue watching
Aug 24 South Africa in an Uproar Over Proposals to Restrict Media A new uproar has developed in South Africa over proposals by the governing African National Congress to impose curbs on that country's dynamic and freewheeling press. Two legislative proposals have drawn criticism not only from local and foreign journalists,… Continue reading
Aug 24 Portraits of Iraqis and Their Dreams By Margaret Warner Iraqis' feelings about their country's future are best reflected in what they say about their own personal dreams. The younger ones appear less scarred -- their parents' and grandparents' generations seem far more so. Here's a sampling of people we've… Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch In Chile, 17 Days Underground Just the Beginning for 33 Miners In Chile, rescue crews learned that 33 miners are still alive after 17 days stuck underground, but it could take months to free them. The country's president has appealed to other nations to help speed the recovery effort. Continue watching
Aug 23 Watch Chilean Miners' Underground Ordeal Could Last 'Til Christmas In Chile, 33 miners trapped for 17 days were found to be alive, but they face months more underground before they can be rescued. Matt Craze of Bloomberg News updates the rescue efforts. Continue watching
Aug 23 Chilean Miners Alive, but Face Months More Underground Plans to free 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Chile could take four months, according to the head of rescue operations, but the country's president has appealed to other nations to help speed the… Continue reading
Aug 23 On the Ground in Pakistan Amid the Flood Crisis By Jeffrey Kaye Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye is reporting for the NewsHour in Pakistan this week on the flood crisis there. Kaye gives Hari Sreenivasan an overview of his reporting plan and provides a written dispatch from Islamabad below. ISLAMABAD |… Continue reading