A year after the Virginia Tech shootings, families of the victims have reached a tentative settlement with the state to prevent future lawsuits. Watch this report on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.
Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush will call for halting the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. Take a look back at the Bush environmental legacy and nine landmark decisions on NOW. Will these actions speak louder than words before his term ends early next year?
Consumers may have to start the day riding a bike to work and eating a bag–not a box–of generic Cheerios. Find out why the news at the grocery store is grim for many on the recent Bill Moyers Journal, “Hunger in America”, which aired 4/11/08.
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the U.S. yesterday for his first visit as pope. Today, thousands of guests are gathering at the White House as President Bush prepares to greet the pope. The Pope will have a private meeting with President Bush, and the war in Iraq is expected to be high on the agenda.
By April 18, 2008 the huge spending bill commonly know as “The Farm Bill” must be reauthorized. The multi-billion dollar bill that doles out money for food stamps, farms and environmental conservation encompasses so many programs and payouts that its fans and foes don’t fall into predictable camps.
See the winning caption from NOW’s political cartoon contest, “Stretching the Dollar,” and put your own words to their all-new April election cartoon! You may win a NOW DVD. See the official rules.
T.R. Reid, a veteran Washington Post correspondent, finds out how five other capitalist democracies–United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland–deliver health care and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. Watch entire program.
Presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain are not the only ones assessing the progress of the Iraq War. The New York Times reported that Frontline’s documentary, “Bush’s War,” received more than 1.5 million views online. The two-part report tells the epic story of how the Iraq war began and how it [...]
Flight delays continued this week as American Airlines moved to cancel another 900 flights and expectations grew that cancellations are likely to spread to other U.S. carriers as regulators tighten their safety audits of airlines.
Republican frontrunner John McCain’s campaign may be hobbled this summer, thanks to a government program that prohibits a candidate from spending privately-raised funds. Find out more about the public financing program for presidential candidates on NOW.
