Fifty years ago today, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought viewers like you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour evening program, free of commercials, that aimed to tell one in-depth story per ...

The 1981 deputy leadership contest between Tony Benn and Denis Healey was full of allegations of dirty tricks. It also shaped ...

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The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago. “The Robert MacNeil Report” first appeared on ...

Some 136 newspapers in the United States have closed in the past year, news deserts are expanding and web traffic to the nation’s top newspapers has dropped markedly this decade, according to a report ...

The government shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, and the Senate won't meet until Monday.

The federal government was unable to avert a lapse in funding. Here's a look at the 14 other shutdowns that have occurred since 1980.