Target of NJ traffic probe comes into focus

Target of NJ traffic probe comes into focus

Feb. 11: Darryl Isherwood, senior political reporter for NJ.com, talks with Rachel Maddow about the focus by investigators ...

Lacking answers, NJ GOP attacks messenger

Lacking answers, NJ GOP attacks messenger

Feb. 12: Rachel Maddow reports on the release of new subpoenas in the NJ traffic scandal probe and notes that the state GOP...

New light on Port Authority police in NJ case

New light on Port Authority police in NJ case

Feb. 17: Rachel Maddow explains where the Port Authority of NY/NJ Police Department plays a role in the George Washington B...

Cast of characters in NJ bridge case grows

Cast of characters in NJ bridge case grows

Feb. 17: Shawn Boburg, reporter for the Record newspaper, talks with Rachel Maddow about new understanding about the role o...

Newly uncensored documents in NJ traffic case

Newly uncensored documents in NJ traffic case

Feb. 18: NJ Assemblyman John Wisniewski talks with Rachel Maddow about the progress of the investigation into a politically...

Usher pokes fun at Blake Shelton, Hoda’s dog

Usher pokes fun at Blake Shelton, Hoda’s dog

Feb. 24: Grammy winner Usher, now a judge on the hit NBC show “The Voice,” tells TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda ...

Putin to Bush: My dog is bigger, stronger than yours

Putin to Bush: My dog is bigger, stronger than yours

April 4: In an exclusive interview with TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager, the former president describes his working relationship with the R...

Dick Van Dyke rescued after car catches on fire

Dick Van Dyke rescued after car catches on fire

Aug. 20: The 87-year-old actor escaped uninjured from the blaze on a highway in Los Angeles after a passerby pulled him fro...

4 dogs, 1 cat looking for families get pampered

4 dogs, 1 cat looking for families get pampered

June 27: In another installment of Bow to Wow, TODAY animal advocate Jill Rappaport helps five adorable shelter animals get makeovers ...

Paul Ryan to rescue the GOP 

Paul Ryan to rescue the GOP 

Oct. 9: Chris Hayes looks at the resurrection of so-called entitlement reform by Paul Ryan.  

Small steps toward preventing shutdown

Small steps toward preventing shutdown

Dec. 11: In Trenders, Bill O'Reilly refuses to let Bachmann blame woes on the  media, while GOP attacks Obama's polite dip...

NJ bridge story extending into scandal

NJ bridge story extending into scandal

Dec. 11: Rachel Maddow reports on developments in the story of a suspicious traffic closure in New Jersey as the investigat...

Rescued Nev. family: ‘We’ll forever be grateful’

Rescued Nev. family: ‘We’ll forever be grateful’

Dec. 16: The Nevada family that survived two days of sub-zero-temperatures in the wilderness speaks out about their ordeal ...

NJ bridge flap draws attention from Congress

NJ bridge flap draws attention from Congress

Dec. 17: Rachel Maddow reports on the latest developments in the growing scandal over traffic closures in New Jersey, with ...

Pulsing arrows, small victories

Pulsing arrows, small victories

Dec. 20: Rachel Maddow highlights the one detail that didn't change on a day of rapidly developing news.  

Small businesses face health care trade-offs

Small businesses face health care trade-offs

Dec. 29: Before the new health care law, a Michigan car dealership offered employees a company health insurance plan. Thing...

South Sudan missionaries battle to rescue orphans

South Sudan missionaries battle to rescue orphans

Jan. 1: U.S. missionary Kim Campbell speaks of the terrifying escape from her orphanage in South Sudan to a nearby makeshif...

Billion dollar deal eyed as NJ scandal motive

Billion dollar deal eyed as NJ scandal motive

Jan. 13: MSNBC's Steve Kornacki talks with Rachel Maddow about a real estate deal that could explain what set off a politic...

Who blacked out so much of the NJ documents?

Who blacked out so much of the NJ documents?

Jan. 13: Rachel Maddow reports on who is responsible for so many redactions in the released New Jersey bridge scandal docum...

Pallone: ‘Culture of abuse of power’ in NJ

Pallone: ‘Culture of abuse of power’ in NJ

Jan. 18: New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone announced that the Inspector General at the Department of Housing and Urban D...