
The Supreme Court could make landmark rulings on three major issues this month, weighing affirmative action in higher education, the Voting Rights Act section 5 and California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which both...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: Just 24 hours ago, there was talk of new prospects for finding peace in Afghanistan. Today, President Hamid Karzai angrily changed course, leaving the initiative in doubt and U.S. officials doing...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: A short time ago, I spoke to Rod Nordland of The New York Times. He's in Doha, where the talks with the Taliban were supposed to take place.
Rod Nordland, welcome to you.
So, yesterday, this seemed...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: The Federal Reserve painted a brighter picture of the economy today. The Central Bank estimated unemployment will fall a little faster than expected this year and next. Chairman Ben Bernanke said...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And next: one of nature's fascinating and deafening spectacles.
Quiet, leafy neighborhoods suddenly sound more like airports and look like scenes from a bad horror movie.
NewsHour science correspondent...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: President Obama announced today the U.S. could reduce its stockpile of long-range nuclear weapons by a third and called upon Russia to make similar cuts.
Margaret Warner has the story.
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