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| Archived Since: | February 11, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Israeli Strike on Syria Shows Growing Lawlessness Along Border, Analysts Say
U.N. peacekeepers monitor the Lebanese-Israeli border at a point overlooking an Israeli settlement, in southern Lebanon on Monday. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. An Israeli airstrike on a military research facility near Damascus, Syria, last weekend killed 42 Syrian soldiers,...
News Flash: EPA Now Accountable to Public
This is the first of two PBS NewsHour reports on hexavalent chromium, a chemical found in U.S. drinking water and the agency charged with regulating it. This report aired on March 13. There is nothing more...
How Did Watergate Affect You?
"Covering Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring...
NRA, Biden Push Guns Back Into Political Spotlight
An young attendee inspects a rifle Saturday during the 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Houston. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. If there is one thing supporters and opponents of tougher gun laws can agree on, it's that...
Sleeping Bag Coat for the Homeless Finds Fans in the Fashion World
A few years ago, Veronika Scott, now 23, set up a coat manufacturing business in a graffiti-covered building in an old Irish manufacturing neighborhood of Detroit. She had a few sewing machines and a drive to...
Chart: America's Rising Suicide Problem
Suicides now kill more Americans each year than car crashes, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2010 alone, 38,364 killed themselves in the United States -- 4,600 more than were killed....
Report on Honeybee Decline Cites a Mess of Factors
Honeybee colonies are dying at a rate of 30 percent a year, according to a new government report. Photo by Flickr Creative Commons/ Cygnus921. A new government report on the decline of honeybee colonies in the U.S. stresses that...
James Dobbins Next U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Photo by Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images. Ambassador James Dobbins will be the new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement Friday. It won't be unfamiliar territory for the...
Are You a Work Potato?
Two-thirds of American office workers experience pain on the job and a quarter expect it. Not from physical exertion but the opposite -- too much hunching, sitting, clicking and staring at screens. According to a recent study from the...
Ornstein: Political 'Tribalism' Led to Lack of Compromise in Washington
President Obama addressed the press on April 30 about his first 100 days in office, which have led to questions over whether GOP and White House refusal to compromise is bigger than any political agenda. Photo by PBS NewsHour....
The Calendar Says 2013, but It Feels Like 2016
Is Vice President Joe Biden contemplating a run for the White House in 2016? There are still roughly 1,000 days before voting gets underway in the 2016 presidential primary process, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the...
Gwen's Take: The Trouble With Making (and Keeping) Promises
President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images President Obama told a really funny joke after he strolled to the podium at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last weekend. After noting that he was...
How Connecting 7 Billion to the Web Will Transform the World
Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen call the Internet "the world's largest ungoverned space," a space that is increasingly growing. The tech moguls outline their vision of a world universally connected to the Internet in...
On the PBS NewsHour Tonight
On Thursday's NewsHour: President Barack Obama travels to Mexico with trade, security and immigration on the agenda The fight over access to emergency contraceptives continues as the Obama administration moves to appeal a federal ruling A bloody April for Iraq,...
EMILY'S List Launches 'Madam President' Campaign
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo by Reuters/ Gary Cameron. The timing couldn't have been any better. The progressive women's group EMILY's List Thursday unveiled its 'Madam President' campaign to elect the first woman President of the United...
Center for Public Integrity Examines 'All the Presidents' Debt'
Then Democratic presidential candidate, Bill Clinton, talks to members of the audience after the second presidential debate in Richmond, Va., in October 1992. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Clinton/Gore '96 Primary Committee still owes $100,080. Photo...
What a 'Private Option' for Medicaid Expansion Might Look Like
The Obama administration wanted Republican states to accept the health law's Medicaid expansion pretty much as is. Republicans wanted Medicaid money in no-strings block grants. Arkansas has broached what could be a deal-making compromise, giving Washington the increased coverage...
Drugs Provide No High at Mexico Summit
Screen grab of Mexican flagPresident Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto may have hoped that drugs and violence would not grab most of the headlines of their Thursday summit in Mexico City. But events may be....
President Selling Immigration Bill at Home and Abroad
Photo of U.S. capitol by Larisa Epatko/PBS NewsHour. The burgeoning debate over immigration reform is expected to consume lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the coming months. But for the moment, at least, the issue does not appear to hav...
Why Climate Change Means More -- And Less -- Ice for the Antarctic
Scientists have been trying to create a clearer picture of how the Antarctic responds to climate change. Photo by Nerilie Abram. It's no secret that the ice sheet is melting in Greenland. Last year, the Arctic ice cap shrunk...