Jennifer Harper

Report on Alhurra said to skew facts

CBS News and Pro Publica "distorted facts" in a collaborative investigative story that aired Sunday about Alhurra TV, according to officials from an independent federal agency that supervises all U.S. government-supported, non-military international broadcasting.

June 24, 2008

Inside Politics Weekend

On this day in 1944, President signed the G.I. Bill to provide World War II veterans with money for education, unemployment compensation plus home and business loans. Three years later, vets made up half of the nation's college enrollment, according to the History Channel.

June 22, 2008

Blogger, AP meet about use rift

The two sides in the Associated Press-blogosphere spat are talking now, but a war may loom anyway. America's biggest wire service wanted bloggers to pay for its content, as news organizations do, and threatened a lawsuit against Rogers Cadenhead, a Florida-based journalist who oversees the online Drudge Retort, a liberal answer to the much-viewed Drudge Report.

June 21, 2008

AP, bloggers clash over wire content use

The ongoing war between the traditional "old" media and Internet-driven "new" media has gotten noisier, with peace and common ground still elusive.

June 20, 2008

Anti-Obama pin jabs Texas GOP

Talk about a hot-button issue. Texas Republicans are wincing over a cultural gaffe that has put their party on notice.

June 19, 2008

Creative trash talk aims at slowing landfill piles

The world is talking trash. Seriously. Unwieldy garbage is piling up around the planet - along with ideas for its creative disposal.

June 18, 2008

Sikh sues Disney over right to wear turban

A Sikh musician has filed a $1 million class action discrimination suit against Walt Disney World, claiming the Florida theme park denied him employment because his religion requires him to wear a beard and a dastaar - a turban - which ultimately compromised company dress code.

June 18, 2008

California weds first same-sex couple

In the wake of the Martin-Lyon nuptials, close to 170,000 gay couples from California and beyond will wed in the Golden State in the next three years, according to estimates from the University of California at Los Angeles.

June 17, 2008

Inside Politics Weekend

Outbursts and all, Senator James Webb of Virginia is rumored to be on the short list as Sen. Barack Obama's potential running mate.

June 15, 2008

Most Republicans back right to arms

Republicans remain a firearm-friendly group for the most part.

June 13, 2008

To Falwell’s rescue

Macel Falwell, who was married to the controversial minister Jerry Falwell for 49 years, is intent on setting the record right.

June 12, 2008

Wrath of McClellan

It's been 12 days since former White House press secretary Scott McClellan dropped his memoir/tell-all/improvised explosive device upon the Washington power establishment.

June 8, 2008

Inside Politics Weekend

Gray matter

June 8, 2008

‘Gender bias’ did in Clinton?

Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the Democratic nomination for president because of "gender bias" in the news media, according to a Johns Hopkins University analysis.

June 6, 2008

Obama’s historic nomination grips U.S., world

Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, there was no escaping the sense Wednesday that a barrier had been overcome.

June 5, 2008

Gas pinch crimps renowned American road trip

Thanks to rising gas prices, the proverbial all-American road trip has shrunk from a long stretch of highway to a neat snip of asphalt, with little left to chance.

June 3, 2008

District set to be ‘Thunder’-struck

"Rolling Thunder" is a most fitting motto. Thousands of bikers are rolling along the Washington area's roadways today with plenty of gumption and an unabashed carbon footprint. Exhaust pipes are vibrating, pistons are pumping, and it is, well, thunderous.

May 25, 2008

Bikers to swarm capital to honor vets

Thousands of bikers are rolling along the Washington area's roadways Sunday with plenty of gumption and an unabashed carbon footprint. Exhaust pipes are vibrating, pistons are pumping, and it is, well, thunderous. 4:09 p.m. Photos: Rolling Thunder bikers up close

May 24, 2008

In one corner: Bush; in the other: media

Spats between President Bush and a voracious press have been a fixture of his presidency, and the media landscape is pockmarked with the salvos of their contention.

May 23, 2008

Inside Politics

Well, sort of. The news that had again been subpoenaed to appear before lawmakers regarding the matter of nine fired U.S. attorneys has rankled a few of his fans.

May 23, 2008