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...
GWEN IFILL:Next, we turn to a scandal that's rocked one of the world's most popular sports. Hari Sreenivasan reports. HARI SREENIVASAN:Soccer has been tainted in the past by evidence of match fixing. But European law enforcement officials outlined a...
JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, this was Oscar nomination day. The civil war-era drama Lincoln led the pack with 12 nominations, followed by the fantasy Life of Pi with 11, and Les Miserables with eight. Another new film, Zero Dark Thirty, lookin...
JEFFREY BROWN:And now to the man who will be just the fifth inaugural poet in the nation's history. Richard Blanco was, as he said, made in Cubahe was conceived thereassembled in Spain his mother gave birth to him thereand quickly imported to the Uni...
RAY SUAREZ:New Year's Day marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C., honors the occasion with a rare public viewing. It's one of the defining documents of American democracy, issued on...
GWEN IFILL:Another way of looking at the ongoing economic crisis in Greece. Jeffrey Brown was in Athens recently and talked to two poets about hard times now and in the nation's past. JEFFREY BROWN: All right, so, sometimes, you're out with the kids...
JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight: doling out history lessons on Twitter. Gwen Ifill has that. GWEN IFILL:NewsHour regular Michael Beschloss has written eight books and countless commentaries on the American presidency, but recently he's discovered a...
GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight, an unflinching look back at the war in Bosnia, as told by Angelina Jolie. Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with the Oscar-winning actress and the stars of her new film. JEFFREY BROWN:She's one of the most recognizable women...
