Blog Profile / The Rundown News Blog
| URL : | http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/ | |
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| Posts / Week: | 37.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 11, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
401(k) KO'd?
Ray Suarez spoke to FRONTLINE's Martin Smith on the documentary "The Retirement Gamble." Tonight on FRONTLINE, we're taken to a place far from the happy and fulfilled senior citizens living out their dreams in robust and...
'The Way of the Knife' Examines Conflict Between CIA, Pentagon
PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner talks to Pulitzer Prize winning author Mark Mazzetti on his new book "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the...
Forty Percent of Non-Citizens Live in U.S. on Expired Visitor, Student Visas
Doris Meissner, director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says 40 percent of non-citizens living in the U.S. are "visa overstays."
Welcome the Stranger: Convincing Evangelicals to Support Immigration Reform
Ray Suarez spoke with Jenny Hwang, the co-author of "Welcoming the Stranger," a book published in 2009 urging evangelicals to look at comprehensive immigration reform based on biblical principles. Recently, there has been a wave of....
Evangelicals Rally for Pathway to Citizenship and Immigration Reform
Hundreds of Evangelical leaders rallied in Washington to gather political support for comprehensive immigration reform.
Boston 10th in Funds Received for 'High Threat' Urban Areas
Terrorism has been in the headlines in Boston before. Ten al-Qaida hijackers departed from Boston's Logan airport on Sept. 11, 2001. And in 2012, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., a Boston suburb, was convicted of conspiracy to provide material...
Gitmo by the Numbers
Take a tour of the communal-living detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. The prison at Guantanamo Bay holds 166 detainees captured and transferred to Cuba in coordination with U.S. counterterrorism operations abroad. Recently, more than half of the detainees have...
Boston Bombings Rouse Debate in Senate Immigration Hearing
Thousands of people rally for immigration reform in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. There was little doubt last week's Boston Marathon bombings would be raised during Monday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the comprehensive...
The Latest Hunger Strike at Guantanamo
PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez talks to the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg on the 9/11 Guantanamo hearing delays, the uncertain status of 86 detainees at the detention center and the men leading the latest hunger...
Undocumented Individuals 'Deeply Rooted' in U.S. Communities, Former INS Chief Says
Former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner describes the makeup of the 11 million undocumented people currently living in the U.S. An agreement between labor groups and lawmakers seems to have set the stage for the unveiling last...
How to Start a Senior Business for 'Dummies'
We interviewed Judi Henderson-Townsend, the owner of Mannequin Madness, for our story on senior entrepreneurs, airing on the Monday broadcast of PBS NewsHour. Surrounded by "stiffs" in an Oakland, Calif., warehouse, Henderson-Townsend told us how she...
Seattle's Bullitt Center Bills Itself as 'World's Greenest Office Building'
Seattle's Bullitt Center bills itself as the world's greenest office building for its local and sustainable materials. Video courtesy of KCTS9/Earthfix Before skyscrapers, Seattle's waterfront held little more than tide flats edged with evergreen forests. Those forests ran off...
The Importance of Reflecting on Death, Especially After Boston
Top photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Last Monday afternoon, author Erica Brown had some time on her hands in Boston. She was there to address a cultural arts gathering, and, with a few hours before...
One Year Later: What Happened to #stopKony?
The Daily Download's Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz discuss the #stopKony movement's effectiveness with PBS NewsHour's Christina Bellantoni. The Kony 2012 video skyrocketed to almost 100 million views on YouTube in the course of one year....
Boxing Coach Calls Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev 'Very Good Athlete'
Bob Russo coached Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he was a competitor at the Golden Gloves amateur nationals in 2009. Tsarnaev, one of the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings, was killed Friday while in pursuit from police....
Boston Bombing Suspects' Uncle: 'Turn Yourself In'
Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of the two Boston Marathon bombings suspects, attributes their alleged actions to "being losers." He pleaded with the younger suspect, who is still at large, to turn himself in and ask for forgiveness....
Teen Suspect in Boston Bombings a 'Regular American Kid'
FBI photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. By many accounts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is wanted for perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombings, was an athletic student who liked rap music and sports. As police continued to pursue the suspect in...
Police Warn Boston: 'Shelter in Place'
Police on School and Walnut Street on Friday in Watertown, Mass. Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images. Nearly a million residents in the city of Boston and many surrounding communities were asked to "shelter in place" Friday as police continued...
Slow-moving Sequestration Still Figures in Budget Negotiations
According to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, fewer than 20 percent of Americans report feeling any impact of sequestration -- the $85 billion dollars in across-the-board federal spending cuts that got underway March 1. But Democrats maintain the forced...
Pakistan Elections Could Mark Historic Transfer of Power
Election sign for Imran Khan who heads the party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The former cricket champion-turned-politician casts himself as an anti-corruption crusader. Photo by Daniel Sagalyn. If everything goes according to plan, Pakistan’s election on May 11 will be the...