Feb 09 U.S. and Australia Agree to Free Trade Pact By PBS News Hour The United States and Australia reached a free trade agreement Sunday that supporters said would increase U.S. manufacturing exports to Australia by $2 billion a year. Continue reading
Feb 06 Russian Subway Bombing Kills 39 Thirty-nine people died and more than 100 were injured Friday morning when a bomb exploded in a packed subway train in Moscow. Continue reading
Feb 06 Watch Intelligence Probe President Bush named seven members of a bipartisan commission Friday to investigate U.S. intelligence-gathering in prewar Iraq and elsewhere. Continue watching
Feb 05 Watch Defending Intelligence In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet in a speech Thursday denied his agency tailored information to build a case for the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Jim Lehrer speaks with two senators about the agency's… Continue watching
Feb 04 U.N. Team to Evaluate Prospect of Early Elections in Iraq U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday he would send a team to Iraq to determine if elections could be held before the June 30 transfer of authority to a provisional government. Continue reading
Feb 04 Investigation Seeks Source of Ricin Sent to Senate Investigators intensified efforts Wednesday to identify the letter or parcel that brought the deadly poison ricin to a Senate mail room. Continue reading
Feb 03 Ricin Found in Senate Majority Leader's Office, Tests Confirm Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday a definitive test confirmed that the white powder found in the mail room of his office was the deadly poison ricin, prompting the closure of three Senate office buildings. Continue reading
Feb 03 Powder Found in Senate Office Building Tests Positive for Ricin A white powder discovered in a mail room in the Dirksen Senate office building has tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, U.S. Capitol police said Monday night. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch Lessons from the Past Following President Bush's announcement of a new commission to examine U.S. intelligence operations, historians and authors discuss past errors in intelligence-gathering and their consequences. Continue watching
Feb 01 Watch Extended Interview With Salim Tamari Salim Tamari, director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, explains his opposition to the fence Israel is building and shares his thoughts on the obstacles to peace in the region. Continue watching