In Syria, Assad government troops pushed to retake a strategic town close to the Lebanese border. Hezbollah fighters joined the Syrian regime army in laying siege to Qusayr, home to an estimated 40,000 civilians. Judy Woodruff reports on the growing involvement of Hezbollah in the Syrian conflict.
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The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses the changes and implications for both patients and professionals with Dr. Michael First of Columbia University and Dr. Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute.
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MORNING LINE | May 20
After a week of statements of outrage and a congressional hearing, there appears to be more heat than light when it comes to discussion of the Internal Revenue Service's singling out of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when applying for tax-exempt status.
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ASK LARRY | May 20
Fifty-two percent of women over 60 aren't married and nearly 70 percent of those over 75 are single. What Social Security benefits are they entitled to? And what about single or divorced men?
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On Monday, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien will serve as master of ceremonies at an event honoring the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. This is the column that O'Brien wrote immediately following Ride's death in July 2012, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Paul Solman looks back to the 1912 presidential election when economic disparity between the rich and poor was a key issue in debates between William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
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Although the brood II cicadas aren't expected to emerge en masse until late May or June, a nice crop of them nested in a batch of poison ivy in Virgina’s Bull Run Regional Park on Thursday. Their veiny wings and bright beady red eyes clung to grass, leaves and tree bark.
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It is another Gatsby/Fitzgerald moment. "The Great Gatsby" is on the big screen now directed by Baz Luhrmann. Jeff Brown talks to a F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar about what fascinates so many to continue to write books about the American author and reinterpret his classic novels on film.
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With small signs of relief in the Eastern U.S., the forecast now shows more trouble ahead as the drought is expected to intensify in the West and Central Plains this summer, according to NOAA.
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