GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight, the tale of a top-secret town with a top-secret mission and the women who made history there. Ray Suarez has our book conversation. RAY SUAREZ:During the mid-1940s, thousands of young women got offers of good-paying jobs w...
6.jpg RAY SUAREZ:Next: a story about love, life and the quest for success in a modern metropolis. Jeffrey Brown has our book conversation. JEFFREY BROWN:A poor boy from a rural village comes to a sprawling, wild, sometimes violent city and struggles,...
JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight: remembering a giant of country music, George Jones. It was that distinctive voice and the ability to convey heartache and sorrow in song that made George Jones a country music legend. He turned out number one single...
JUDY WOODRUFF:Next: a treasure trove of cubist art and a record gift for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Margaret Warner has more. MARGARET WARNER:Philanthropist Leonard Lauder, an heir to the Estee Lauder estate, is giving the Met his en...
JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight, remembering the popular movie reviewer and television co-host Roger Ebert. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. He died today at age 70. Hari is back with our remembrance. 83.jpg HARI SREENIVASAN:...
JUDY WOODRUFF:As the Supreme Court took up arguments last week in two high-profile cases looking at same-sex marriage, many users of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media took to changing their profile pictures. What was behind that viral...
GWEN IFILL:Next tonight: the debate over the role of the federal government. The issue was a central focus of last year's presidential campaign, and it is at the heart of a new book by Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general and a candidate for g...
GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight: the disturbing story of attacks on the chief of the Bolshoi Ballet. Moscow police said today they arrested a Russian ballet star for organizing an acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin in January. Filin, who was on...
JEFFREY BROWN:A giant of American culture has died. Van Cliburn rocked the classical and Cold War worlds in the late 1950s and beyond. He died today at his home in Fort Worth of bone cancer. I had the chance to spend time with Van Cliburn in 2008. He...
RAY SUAREZ:Next: to our series about the digital world's cultural impact. NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni is here with the Daily Download team. CHRISTINA BELLANTONI:Ordinary citizens have more opportunities to talk directly to the pres...
