JUDY WOODRUFF: The latest government jobs report shows the American labor market moving into its strongest hiring pace in years. Employers added 217,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate remained at 6.3 percent, its lowest level since Septem...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Our chief foreign affairs correspondent, Margaret Warner sat down with Ford today, on the first day he has agreed to be interviewed on television since his departure, to discuss the election and what he sees as the failures of U.S. pol...
JUDY WOODRUFF: For more on all of this and a look at some of the options before the military in the Bergdahl matter, we turn to New York Times reporter Eric Schmitt. And retired Lieutenant General Dana Chipman. He was the Army's judge advocate genera...
GWEN IFILL: It's been two days since the emotional announcement of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's release from his Taliban captors. Criticism of the deal, which includes the transfer of five Guantanamo prisoners to Qatar, came soon after and is intensifyin...
GWEN IFILL: Next: The coast of Louisiana is crumbling into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate. Over the last 80 years, it's lost nearly 2,000 square miles. That's as big as all of Rhode Island. Now a political fight has broken out in the state le...
In the White House Rose Garden today, President Obama declared 2014 a pivotal year in the march toward pulling nearly all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: At the beginning of 2015, we will have approximately...
HARI SREENIVASAN: And to the analysis of Shields and Gerson. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson. David Brooks is away today. So, let's start talking first, on the politics side, elections, May 20, bi...
GWEN IFILL: There was deadly unrest in Eastern Ukraine today, as pro-Russia insurgents attacked a military checkpoint, killing 16 soldiers. In the town of Lysychansk, separatist rebels clashed with Ukrainian forces and exchanged mortar rounds and gun...
GWEN IFILL: The battle over the minimum wage heated up across the country today, as fast-food workers in several cities launched a one-day strike. Outside Chicago, near the corporate home of McDonald's, workers protested as the company held its annua...
GWEN IFILL: Next: making sure poetry leaves the ivory tower and gets out into the community. Over the past year, Jeffrey Brown and U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey have been exploring that question in various corners of American life. They recent...