GWEN IFILL:On Monday, the president laid out his agenda for his second term in office. Today, House Republicans took their first step to position themselves for a series of upcoming fiscal battles. MAN:The gentleman is recognized. GWEN IFILL:On the H...
HARI SREENIVASAN: And to another NewsHour correspondent overseas, Ray Suarez in Davos, Switzerland. He's moderating panels at the World Economic Forum, where there's been talk about the future of the European Union. We spoke earlier this evening. Ray...
JEFFREY BROWN:Whither the economy? That's been the question for quite a while now. Today, there was a surprising and perhaps confusing new twist. The Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product actually shrank in the last quarter of 2012...
JUDY WOODRUFF:Negotiators in Washington signaled publicly today that there had been little progress in reaching a deal to avert the fiscal cliff with 19 days to go until a year-end deadline. REP. JOHN BOEHNER, R-Ohio: I remain the most optimistic per...
MARGARET WARNER:Five days and counting with plenty of tit-for-tat charges, but no agreement in sight, that, in short, summed up the state of affairs in Washington today as the fiscal cliff deadline loomed, Jan. 1. It would mean more than $600 billion...
JEFFREY BROWN:2012 ended with another month of steady, but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from today's numbers out of the Labor Department. The weeks of will they or won't they go over the fiscal cliff in Washington had raised f...
KWAME HOLMAN:Wall Street was down much of the day, but trimmed its losses after news that the House will convene Sunday to focus on the fiscal cliff. In the end, the Dow Jones industrial average shed 18 points to close at 13,096. The Nasdaq fell four...
MARGARET WARNER:Eighteen days and counting until the end of the year, when the government reaches the edge of the so-called fiscal cliff. Congressional correspondent Kwame Holman kicks off our coverage tonight. KWAME HOLMAN:Late in the day, House Spe...
JUDY WOODRUFF:Now: The U.S. government brings its highest profile case yet of international money laundering against one of the world's biggest banks. For years, American officials have sought and sometimes struggled to crack down on the practices. T...
RAY SUAREZ:Finally tonight: new worries over the mobile apps kids are using, and what the apps disclose about their users. It seems like everyone has them, the ubiquitous applications, apps, for short, on smartphones and tablets, including everything...
