November 16, 2009 |
President Obama kicked off a nine-day trip to Asia with a visit to Japan, where the newly elected prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, is seeking a more "equal partnership" with the U.S. and the closing of an unpopular Marine base in
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November 11, 2009 |
Over the past three years, nearly 32,000 Iraqi refugees have arrived in the U.S. to escape persecution back home, but many find a whole new host of challenges here in America where jobs and resources are becoming scarce. Government-funded resettlement
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November 10, 2009 |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, joined Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other world leaders at the renowned Brandenberg Gate in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
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November 9, 2009 |
The economy lost another 190,000 jobs last month sending unemployment to 10.2 percent -- the first double digits since 1983. But a new and growing trend may be even more important: a whopping one third of all workers, according to
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November 5, 2009 |
Loud and often politically controversial TV and radio talk show hosts are dominating the ratings and influencing the way that Americans think and talk about politics. Show anchors like Glenn Beck, known for their over-the-top style and extreme political views,
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November 4, 2009 |
In this report from Learning Matters television, correspondent John Tulenko reports on the education programs in Rochester City public schools that have received federal stimulus dollars. During the last fiscal year, Rochester City Schools had a $50 million budget shortfall
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November 3, 2009 |
One year since the onset of the financial crisis, some signs of recovery have already taken hold. But is this financial meltdown really any different from crises of the past? "No", say economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt in their
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November 2, 2009 |
The Solix Biofuels Company out in the Colorado Desert is one of about 200 companies trying to find a way to make biofuels out of algae by extracting its natural oils. The company has found an investment partner in the
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October 29, 2009 |
Dr. Kinari Webb runs an environmentally friendly health clinic on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo that offers patients living in extreme poverty access to affordable health care. Health in Harmony allows patients to pay for treatment in everything from
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October 28, 2009 |
The American labor movement has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Unionization has decreased form 35 percent of workers in 1949 to 12.5 percent today, and public support is shrinking. In this video, Richard Trumka, the new president of
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October 27, 2009 |
In this video, Gwen Ifill talks to New York Times reporter David Rohde, who was kidnapped by the Taliban nearly a year ago while working on a book in Afghanistan. After setting out to meet with a local Taliban commander,
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October 26, 2009 |
The leader of the extreme right-wing British National Party appeared on a popular political show, "Question Time,"on BBC Television last week prompting a heated national debate over the the free speech rights of extremists in Britain. British National Party leader
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October 23, 2009 |
Author Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation; much of his work centers around the intersections of mainstream American and tribal culture. In this part of the NewsHour's series on poets and poetry, Alexie talks about his new
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October 22, 2009 |
In this video, NewsHour Health Unit correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on concerns over the possible H1N1 flu vaccine shortage that is causing chaos at hospitals as flu season approaches. She visits a Maryland public health clinic where about 2,000
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October 21, 2009 |
The University of California at Berkeley is under pressure to fire tenured law school professor John Yoo, who wrote several memos as a lawyer for the Bush administraton saying that the U.S. could legally torture suspected terrorists for information. In
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October 20, 2009 |
To study the history of climate change, scientists from 14 nations gathered in the far north end of Greenland to drill into the 1.6-mile core of solid ice. The goal of the North Greenland Eemian ice drilling project, or NEEM,
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October 19, 2009 |
Military units stationed at the Fort Carson army base in Colorado have had to cope with the particularly heavy loss of soldiers to their ranks from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Since fighting began in 2002, 279 Fort Carson
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October 16, 2009 |
Currently the U.S. foreclosure crisis shows no sign of abating because while foreclosure filings fell last month, they still remain near a record high, according to a report released this week by real estate firm RealtyTrac. In this video NewsHour
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October 15, 2009 |
Eight years into the war in Afghanistan and less than a year into office, President Obama is meeting with top advisers to develop a new Afghanistan strategy, responding to rising violence and an unresolved election. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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October 14, 2009 |
In this video, NewsHour correspondent Judy Woodruff talks to the president's famously aggressive Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who discusses the administration's hopes for the health care reform bills pushing through congress. The Senate Finance Committee finally passed their own
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October 13, 2009 |
Pakistan was rocked again on Monday by a suicide bombing that killed 41 and wounded at least 45. The explosion followed a weekend siege of army headquarters near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and another suicide attack late last week near
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October 12, 2009 |
Hoping to confirm suspicions that there is water in the form frozen ice that could sustain life on the moon, NASA scientists crashed an LCROSS lunar probe into a moon crater last week. According to space reporter and former NASA
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October 9, 2009 |
In a surprise move today the Nobel committee awarded U.S. President Barack Obama the Peace Prize citing his efforts to change the worldwide diplomatic atmosphere, his inspiration of hope and his push for nuclear disarmament. In Mr. Obama's acceptance speech
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October 8, 2009 |
After the violent beating and death of sixteen-year-old high school student Derrion Albert by Chicago gang members was caught on cell phone video, parents and activists have expressed anger about continued violence among young people in their city. While walking
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October 7, 2009 |
For this video report on health care abroad, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez is in the Netherlands, looking at how the Dutch pulled off a massive transformation of their own health care system in 2006. In redesigning its national health care
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October 6, 2009 |
As President Obama and U.S. military officials consider raising troop levels for the war in Afghanistan, troops in that country experienced the deadliest attacks in over a year. At least 16 Americans have been killed by insurgents this month, eight
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October 5, 2009 |
New research published in the journal Science last week announced new findings 17 years in the making from a 4.4 million year old human ancestor. The new discovery suggests the line of human evolution may be much more complex than
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October 2, 2009 |
Six weeks after Afghanistan's national presidential election, the outcome is still unresolved. Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission reported preliminary results last month giving incumbent President Hamid Karzai 54.6 percent of the vote, but accusations of ballot box stuffing and fraud abound.
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October 1, 2009 |
With the economy still struggling, and people looking to save and recycle, Mike Reynolds may have come up with the answer 40 years ago: completely self-sufficient homes he calls Earthships. The homes have no connections to the electrical grid, no
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September 30, 2009 |
In this video, NewsHour Science Unit correspondent Spencer Michels looks how politics can get in the way of fixing important infrastructure problems. He reports from San Francisco where engineers and politicians have battled over how to fix the earthquake-prone San
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September 29, 2009 |
For the first time ever, a sitting US president is helping make a bid for an American city to host the Olympic Games. President Obama announced last week that he, along with his wife Michelle, Oprah and several members of
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September 28, 2009 |
President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain accused Iran of building a secret uranium-enrichment site capable of fueling a nuclear bomb. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow, endangering the global nonproliferation regime, denying its own
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September 25, 2009 |
Dan Brown, best-selling author of the blockbuster thriller "The Da Vinci Code," sends his character Robert Langdon to Washington D.C. in his latest thriller, "The Lost Symbol." In "The Lost Symbol," Langdon investigates the secret order of the freemasons, a
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September 24, 2009 |
President Barack Obama spoke before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, pushing international leaders to work together to solve global problems. "No longer do we have the luxury of indulging our differences to the exclusion of the work that
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September 23, 2009 |
As part of a series on innovation, NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden explores new research into how scientists are trying to capture and store renewable energy. In this report, Bearden talks with scientists who are trying to figure out how to
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September 22, 2009 |
While President Obama considers deploying more troops to Afghanistan, Secretary of State Clinton discusses the war, impending election results in Afghanistan and the next meeting of the United Nations in a Newsmaker Interview with NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner. In the
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September 18, 2009 |
Young adults are sometimes called "young invincibles," because they are generally healthy and rarely anticipate future medical problems but many of them also can't afford to purchase health insurance. Young people are less likely to earn high salaries or receive
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September 17, 2009 |
Despite White House attempts to quell accusations of racism, the question of whether President Obama's skin color has played into criticism of his political decisions came to a head this week when former President Jimmy Carter charged the president's foes
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September 16, 2009 |
Tanzania has a brain drain problem; not enough doctors to treat its more than 40 million people. To combat this, the Tanzanian Government now trains clinical workers to treat most of the common conditions and infectious diseases and deputizes them
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September 15, 2009 |
India, soon to be the largest nation on earth, is facing a crisis in providing enough food for its people without destroying their environment. In an effort to increase the agricultural production in India in the 1960s, plant geneticist M.S.
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September 14, 2009 |
Since the swine flu outbreak began last spring and spread to more than 100 countries researchers have been working around the clock to come up with an effective shot in sufficient quantities before too many people got sick. In the
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September 11, 2009 |
Journalists covering the war in Afghanistan face the threat of death or kidnapping at the hands of the Taliban, a violent Islamic organization that used to run the country, but was ousted from power by the United States after the
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September 10, 2009 |
In a nationally televised address before Congress, President Barack Obama asked lawmakers to pass health care insurance reform, the top priority of his presidency. Congress is considering a major overhaul of the health insurance system in America, and after a
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September 9, 2009 |
President Obama spoke at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., as part of an administration back-to-school event. The speech, which was broadcast live to school districts across the country on whitehouse.gov, attracted controversy when some critics of
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September 8, 2009 |
Until the 1990s, most students in the American school system had "shop class" - a period devoted to making things out of wood or metal, or learning how to repair cars and other machines. But "shop class" soon became computer
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September 4, 2009 |
"The World at Night" is a traveling photography exhibit sponsored by Astronomers Without Borders, an organization that uses photography to promote the idea that everyone around the world shares a common night sky. In this audio slideshow, astronomers and photographers
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September 3, 2009 |
While wildfires rage on in California, another western state has had its share of forest fires in recent years. Average spring temperatures have risen nearly three degrees in Washington State since 1950. Scientists and researchers are noticing that with the
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September 2, 2009 |
When President Obama signed an executive order in January to close Guantanamo bay, he said he wanted to "restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of
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September 1, 2009 |
As part of his ongoing series on "Making Sense" of the economy, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman visits a Manhattan job fair where many people have been out of work for as long as a year 14.5 million Americans are
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August 31, 2009 |
As a first-term senator, Ted Kennedy championed the rewriting of America's restrictive immigration laws drafted in the 1920s. Fighting hard for the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Kennedy argued for the end of the existing quota system that used
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August 27, 2009 |
Senator Edward Kennedy, who died Tuesday of a malignant brain tumor at age 77, was one of the nation's most prominent senators for nearly five decades. The Massachusetts Democrat and son of privilege gave voice to many causes from civil
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August 26, 2009 |
In this advertisement from his first Senate campaign in the 1960s, late Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy advocates for universal health care for senior citizens, also known as Medicare. Kennedy was known for his promotion of liberal causes like universal health
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August 25, 2009 |
After five months of President Obama's campaign in Afghanistan, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen offered a bleak assessment of the situation in Afghanistan calling it "serious and deteriorating." Taliban attacks and American and Afghan casualties are all
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August 24, 2009 |
How are artists reacting to the current economic situation? How do poets explain their memories? How do they commemorate the new president or articulate identities both modern and traditional? In this video package of nine NewsHour Poetry pieces, American poets
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August 21, 2009 |
While Oklahoma has long been associated with oil and natural gas production, some of the state's young people are turning to its burgeoning wind turbine industry for jobs amidst a recession and global energy crisis. Oklahoma's secretary of commerce and
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August 20, 2009 |
A large prison riot in Chino, California earlier this month highlighted a major problem facing the state of California: as it makes major budget cuts, it is struggling to figure out how to house all its prisoners and how to
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August 19, 2009 |
While Washington D.C. school system is considered one of the worst school systems in nation, aggressive reforms have resulted in high standardized test scores under the leadership of Mayor Adrian Fenty and D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Some critics of
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August 18, 2009 |
Poet, professor and toy collector Albert Goldbarth is a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as a Mark Twain Prize for Humor. In this video, NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks to Golbarth about his
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August 17, 2009 |
Damon Weaver, a south Florida elementary school student reporter, landed his biggest interview yet: a sit-down talk with the President of the United States. President Obama spoke with Weaver at the White House last week. Weaver became a mini-celebrity during
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August 14, 2009 |
Last March, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to atrocities committed in Darfur during the six years. The United Nations estimates that the Darfur crisis has led
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August 13, 2009 |
President Barack Obama awarded 16 people with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest award for civilians. Among the list of honorees was retired
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August 12, 2009 |
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister to President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy, died Tuesday at the age of 88. Shriver, part of one of the most famous American families, made her mark by founding the Special Olympics, a sports
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August 11, 2009 |
As part of NewsHour's ongoing "Blueprint America" series, produced in collaboration with WNET-New York, special correspondent Rick Karr, looks at an Alabama highway system currently under the microscope. Authorized 50 years ago by President Johnson, the Appalachian Development Highway System
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August 10, 2009 |
As members of Congress begin their summer recess, some are hitting the road to find out what constituents think of the health care reform bills on their way through both houses of Congress. Many Democrats who hold town hall meetings
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August 7, 2009 |
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to give $2 billion more to the government's popular "cash for clunkers" program, which offers car owners cash back for trading in their gas guzzlers with more fuel-efficient vehicles. The $1 billion in funds set
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August 6, 2009 |
By the end of Wednesday's Senate debate over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, her confirmation was all but certain with nearly all Senate Democrats and at least seven Republicans saying they would vote for her. President
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August 5, 2009 |
In parts of Southeast Asia, setting a bird free from its cage is a tradition that symbolizes improving a person's soul. But public health workers are now concerned that birds in markets in the region could be spreading H5N1, the
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August 4, 2009 |
In an effort to find new ways to fund health care form, Congress is considering taxing the most expensive employer-provided health plans, sometimes called "Cadillac" plans. Currently, people who receive health insurance through their employer pay no tax on their
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August 3, 2009 |
British musician Elvis Costello emerged onto the new wave rock and roll scene in the late '70s and is known for his songwriting prowess and his collaborations with other artists. While Costello is currently touring the country performing songs from
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July 31, 2009 |
In the the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis in which many banks collapsed or received bailout money, some Americans have criticized America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, for its decision-making power over monetary policy behind closed doors without
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July 30, 2009 |
After Iran's elections in June, hundreds of thousands of Iranians filled the streets for weeks, protesting the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Protesters claim that the government rigged the election so Ahmadinejad would be reelected. In this NewsHour discussion, Margaret
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July 29, 2009 |
Recently released findings show that calling or texting while driving may be significantly more dangerous than previously assumed. The studies found that drivers making a phone call were four times more likely to crash and that texting was twice as
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July 28, 2009 |
U.S. and Chinese officials gathered in Washington D.C. for the Strategic and Economic Dialogue conference where President Barack Obama stressed the importance of ongoing dialogue between the two countries, especially in the midst of a global economic crisis. The two
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July 27, 2009 |
President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced a new "Race to the Top" program for schools and school districts around the country to compete for additional school funding. To qualify, school systems have to make changes that include:
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July 24, 2009 |
The arrest of renowned African American Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home caused a swell of outrage, with President Barack Obama weighing in on the controversy during a news conference, saying that the Cambridge police acted "stupidly."
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July 23, 2009 |
According to the Neilsen Company, Twitter is the fastest-growing Web brand having grown 1400 percent in the past year. The three-year-old social networking site is used by everyone from teenagers to political figures. News organizations have also begun to take
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July 22, 2009 |
40 years after the astronauts of the space shuttle Apollo 11 captured the nation's imagination with the first moon landing, government officials are questioning whether human space exploration is still worth the price. Sending humans to the moon costs the
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July 21, 2009 |
In this video, Jim Lehrer sits down with President Barack Obama at the White House to discuss the administration's efforts to push health care reform legislation through Congress and the state of the nation's ailing economy. With health care reform
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July 20, 2009 |
President Obama was the featured speaker for the 100th birthday of the nation's oldest civil rights organization the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP. The NAACP was formed partly in response to a 1908 race riot
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July 17, 2009 |
While the average American cow produces 6.5 gallons of milk each day, twice as much as in 1970, the farmers selling the milk are now losing money. In California milk is $2.20 a gallon, about a third less than it
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July 16, 2009 |
President Obama's biggest legislative priority, health care reform, moved one step closer to becoming law when an important Senate Committee approved legislation that would create a public health insurance plan and force all Americans to buy health insurance. Tens of
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July 15, 2009 |
In a slumping economy with record job losses and foreclosures on homes and businesses, Americans are being forced to slow the rate of consumption that has been rising over the last few decades. As part of an ongoing series NewsHour
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July 14, 2009 |
Federal appeals judge and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first of several days of hearings to secure her nomination. President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court in May after
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July 13, 2009 |
Meeting with world leaders in Italy last week, President Obama addressed nuclear weapons in Iran and food shortages in Africa. This video is a report and discussion about the G-8 meeting, but teachers can use the one minute clip of
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July 10, 2009 |
In this video, Jeffrey Brown talks to writer and poet Jim Harrison about the inspiration for his work and the process of writing poetry. A determined outsider, Harrison lives and works in rural communities from the Southwest to Michigan, finding
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July 9, 2009 |
In part of an ongoing series deciphering financial news, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to laid-off business executives and ex convicts, two groups of people for whom job opportunities are especially slim in today's economic climate. At the Safer
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July 8, 2009 |
New Orleans schools superintendent Paul Vallas has hired 128 top college graduates from the Teach for America service program to teach in one of the nation's most struggling school districts. Teach for America recruits college graduates to teach for two-years
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July 7, 2009 |
President Obama and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev met yesterday in Moscow in the first U.S.-Russian summit in seven years. In this video, Judy Woodruff reports on the two leaders' agreement to reduce the number of their long-range nuclear missiles and
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July 2, 2009 |
After a decade of economic growth, Russia has been hit hard by the global financial crisis and now suffers from record high inflation and unemployment rates. With the Russian economy so heavily dependent on oil and natural gas, falling energy
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July 1, 2009 |
Iraqis celebrated yesterday as the United States military withdrew their forces from cities across Iraq, although the day was marred by a car bomb that killed 33 people in Kirkuk. In this video, NewsHour correspondent Judy Woodruff reports on the
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June 26, 2009 |
In a major decision regarding student rights, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that school officials did not have the right to strip search a student based on unsubstantial evidence that she had brought pain pills to school. In 2003, Arizona
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June 25, 2009 |
Almost two weeks ago Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the president in a landslide victory in Iran. Many observers called foul play and since, millions of Iranian citizens have marched through the streets in the capital of Tehran. While mostly peaceful,
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June 24, 2009 |
Since late 2007, the U.S. and global economies have been in a prolonged recession. How long will this downturn last? When will the recovery come? How can we see the recovery? These are just some of the questions that leading
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June 23, 2009 |
In today's difficult job market, young college graduates are looking to the community service industry as an alternative to the private or government sector jobs that they had originally planned for. A recent graduate of Virginia Commonweath University, Brian Marroquin
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June 22, 2009 |
The launch of two satellites bound for the moon last week marked the beginning of NASA's new plan for human spaceflight. The spacecraft will look for potential landing sites, measure radiation, and search for water. NASA is also moving ahead
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June 19, 2009 |
The Chicago metro area has more than 1,900 grade crossings, where regular roads cross train tracks, the most of any city in America. With the average train travelling at only nine miles an hour, this can mean a lot of
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June 18, 2009 |
After Iran's contested presidential election sparked protests and rioting across Iran, social networking Web sites like Twitter and Facebook are playing a crucial role connecting Iran to the rest of the world. While the Iranian government banned traditional international news
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June 17, 2009 |
Just over the U.S border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a dozen more people were killed this weekend continuing a disturbing trend. Last year there were 1,600 killings. That's not just a lot of lives destroyed, that's more than double the
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June 16, 2009 |
At Duke University, an expensive private school that sends many of its graduates to high-salary jobs in banking and finance on Wall Street in New York City, new graduates seeking those jobs are out of luck. With the collapse of
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June 15, 2009 |
In an odd turn of events Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as Zimbabwe's prime minister four months ago by the man widely believed to have cheated him out of the full presidency, President Robert Mugabe. The 2008 election had brought
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June 12, 2009 |
President Obama visited Green Bay, Wisconsin this week to discuss the need for comprehensive health care reform to fix the nation's inefficient and expensive system. Back in Washington, Republicans and Democrats were largely divided about what should be done to
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June 11, 2009 |
In his nearly 30 years as a State Department intelligence analyst, Walter Kendall Myers was privy to top-secret information about Cuba. Friends and colleagues described him and his wife as "very good people, very humane, humanitarian people," but now they
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June 10, 2009 |
In California there is a battle between environmentalists and environmentalists over green energy. On one side are those working to get electricity from wind and geothermal power to the city of Los Angeles. On the other side are conservationists worried
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June 9, 2009 |
As part of an ongoing series about the nation's young people, Generation Next correspondent Judy Woodruff talked to graduates of a General Motors training program in Detroit. 26-year-old Lakeehsa Perry recently graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in
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June 8, 2009 |
Sixty-five years after the landing of Allied forces at Normandy Beach, now known as D-Day, President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel toured the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany with Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel over the weekend.
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June 5, 2009 |
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer talked with a group of American Muslims at their mosque in Maryland to get their reactions to President Obama's Thursday address to the global Islamic community in Cairo, Egypt. Tens of millions of people were
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June 4, 2009 |
President Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East Wednesday with a visit to Saudi Arabia, an important oil-producing country that was also home to the majority of the September 11 hijackers. Mr. Obama's trip is aimed at improving
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June 3, 2009 |
As the U.S. plans to increase its number of soldiers in Afghanistan this summer to nearly 70,000, a new Army general has been nominated to lead the fight in Afghanistan. Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal comes to the job with experience
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June 2, 2009 |
NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman is in Detroit, talking to a variety of General Motors company stakeholders about how they view General Motors' recent bankruptcy filing. Instead of selling off the assets and shutting down, GM has chosen file for
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June 1, 2009 |
This video is two minute report of President Obama announcing his new White House position coordinating the nation's digital security, saying the country faces what he called a transformational moment. You can use this to introduce a general conversation, or
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May 28, 2009 |
In Nigeria, where half of the population is Muslim and the other half is Christian, the so-called "Chrislam" church is blurring the lines between the two major religions. In a country where sectarian violence between those two populations has left
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May 27, 2009 |
Community health centers, like the Lorain County Health and Dentistry, were created in the 1960s as part of President Johnson's war on poverty. They are designed as a safety net for the poor and uninsured in America. Emergency rooms all
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May 26, 2009 |
After weeks of interviews and research, President Obama announced today that he has selected Judge Sonia Sotomayor for his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Sotomayor, a judge on the 2nd District Court of Appeals, would be
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May 22, 2009 |
In this panel with NewsHour correspondent Judy Woodruff, analysts weigh in on the debate over closing Guantanamo and interrogation techniques, after President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney gave opposing national security policy speeches on Thursday. Answering critics from
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May 21, 2009 |
Is cheating wrong? Are some types of cheating worse than others? In this segment, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to a behavioral economist who studies what influences cheating and who cheats more than others. Dan Ariely, a professor at
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May 20, 2009 |
President Obama announced sweeping new standards on gas mileage and auto emissions. The new standard would increase the fuel economy of vehicles sold in the United States to a minimum of 35.5 miles per gallon (cars 39 miles per gallon
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May 19, 2009 |
In the first part of this video, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House to discuss Iran's nuclear capabilities and the Middle East peace process. Israel's conservative prime minister faces intense pressure from
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May 18, 2009 |
In India, where millions of children sleep on the street or are forced to work non-stop from the age of seven, it is hard to imagine that change is possible. But Sister Cyril Mooney's vision of a safe place for
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May 15, 2009 |
Sri Lanka is in the midst of a decades-long civil war between government forces and the rebel group Tamil Tigers, killing thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire. The violence began in the 1970s when the ethnic Tamil minority formed
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May 14, 2009 |
This week President Obama announced his opposition to releasing new photos documenting CIA abuse of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners before 2004. In the face of two lower courts demanding the release of the photos, the White House argues that the
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May 13, 2009 |
Architect Maya Lin, famous for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., when she was 21 years old, has a new exhibit called "Systematic Landscapes." The exhibit turns real natural landscapes into huge cross sections that people can walk
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May 12, 2009 |
NASA launched the Atlantis shuttle and its six-member crew into space on Monday to repair the 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. The Atlantis crew will spend 11 days working on Hubble, adding a new camera and fixing
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May 11, 2009 |
With millions of Americans losing their jobs in the current recession, African American unemployment is reaching record levels. In East St. Louis, Illinois, black unemployment is around 30 percent. This is not as bad as the Great Depression, when the
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May 8, 2009 |
After the president signed an executive order closing Guantanamo Bay in January, U.S. officials have had yet to decide where to move the controversial detention center's 241 inmates, many of whom were imprisoned on terrorism charges. 17 of Guantanamo's detainees
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May 7, 2009 |
NewsHour education correspondent John Merrow explores the pros and cons of charter schools, schools granted independence from local government, in New Orleans, Louisiana. This report is part of a series about school reform in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., where
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May 6, 2009 |
In less then two years D.C. Public School Chancellor, Michelle Rhee, has closed 23 under-enrolled schools, fired more than 15 percent of her central office staff, replaced over 30 percent of the city's principals, and gotten a lot of national
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May 5, 2009 |
NewsHour Correspondent Ray Suarez is in Mexico City this week, where health officials are optimistic that the spread of H1N1 "swine flu" virus is waning. With the help of the antiviral drug, Tamiflu, more flu patients are recovering and leaving
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May 4, 2009 |
President Obama will soon choose a Supreme Court justice to replace Justice David Souter, who announced plans to retire. Souter will step down in June, at the end of the court's current term. The president said he wants a new
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May 1, 2009 |
With the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, now detected in at least 16 U.S. states some local communities are now taking forceful steps to prevent the virus' continued spread. More than a hundred individual schools have closed
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April 30, 2009 |
Marking his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama tackled citizens' questions at a town hall meeting in St. Louis. While President Obama acknowledged the nation's grim economic situation, he expressed confidence in his administration's stimulus package, budget proposal
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April 29, 2009 |
In a surprise move, Arlen Specter, the long-time Republican Senator from Pennsylvania defected to the Democratic Party. Specter says that this move has been coming as the Republican Party has become more conservative recent years has put his political philosophy
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April 28, 2009 |
President Roosevelt's New Deal program paid for many St. Louis landmarks- including the land for famous Gateway Arch. Funding from the New Deal built theaters, hospitals and schools that attracted money, jobs, and people to the Midwestern city. But while
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April 27, 2009 |
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case that tries to balance the safety and health of students with their individual privacy interests. At issue is whether Arizona school officials were justified in strip-searching a 13 year-old girl
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April 24, 2009 |
Battlefield robots are nothing new in Hollywood, but they aren't just science fiction anymore. The military has deployed thousands of them for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Robots, thus far, have been used mostly to inspect and dismantle roadside bombs.
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April 23, 2009 |
Students from across the country applied technical and scientific knowledge to design a city of the future, imagine how it would work and what it would be like to live there in the 17th Annual Future City National Competition. More
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April 22, 2009 |
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated economist and former World Bank official, won a landslide victory in late 2005 making her Africa's first elected woman president. Founded by former American slaves in 1847, the West African nation of Liberia descended
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April 22, 2009 |
While America is a producer of cutting-edge software, has some of the best universities in the world and boasts world-class hospitals, some of its technology for moving goods from one place to another is stuck in the 19th century. In
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April 21, 2009 |
U.S. officials and the Iranian President have weighed in on the case of the American journalist sentenced to eight year in jail on charges of spying for the United States. A citizen of both the United States and Iran, journalist
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April 20, 2009 |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are a significant threat to public health, opening the door to new government action on climate change. The EPA reviewed possible health dangers from global warming caused
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April 17, 2009 |
Two years after the college shootings at Virginia Tech and ten years after the high school shooting in Columbine, Colorado gun violence is still a hot button issue in the United States. Since early March over 50 people have been
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April 16, 2009 |
Nigeria's 140 million people face starvation because of high prices and the lack of food and water. According to the United Nations, a third of Nigeria's children are significantly underweight and some families have resorted to eating leaves and shrubs
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April 15, 2009 |
After years of being on the market solar and alternative energy schemes seemed to finally catch on as photovoltaic installations were up 75 percent last year, and a recent industry report says solar, along with wind and biofuels, continued another
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April 14, 2009 |
Although health workers in have eliminated the crippling disease polio in most parts of the world, it is still a major problem in Nigeria where poverty and distrust of the vaccines have stalled eradication efforts. Polio is now endemic in
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April 13, 2009 |
The top five investment banks in the five years leading up to the current financial crisis awarded $145 billion in perks and bonuses for their employees - more than the entire economy of Pakistan, according to Dan Pedrotty, head of
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April 10, 2009 |
Vermont's legislature voted to legalize same-sex marriage in the state, the latest in a series of recent victories for gay marriage proponents this week. The news came a few days after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing
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April 9, 2009 |
Somali pirates attacked a cargo ship with an American crew yesterday and kidnapped the crew's captain. The standoff is the sixth pirate attack in the area off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean in the past week. The
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April 8, 2009 |
The Indian government has angered many citizens by endorsing plans to tear down Mumbai's largest slum -- the setting for the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" -- in order to make way for luxury housing and commercial areas. As part of
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April 7, 2009 |
As the nation continues to face economic problems and more families lose their homes, many schools must cope with a growing number of homeless children. Since the economic downturn, school districts all over the country say that the number of
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April 6, 2009 |
As more Americans continue to lose their jobs - more than 600,000 in March - some companies are giving their employees the option of shared sacrifice in order to help keep employees from losing their jobs. In this report, NewsHour
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April 3, 2009 |
In this video, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Antioch, California, where a growing number of people are barely making a living whether or not they have a job. Working mother Heather Scharf recently lost her job at a mortgage
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April 2, 2009 |
As the American economy continues to falter, anger against Wall Street and the bankers who contributed to the catastrophe is growing. But in 1920 America, there was a world-wide dissatisfaction with capitalism that went beyond angry voters. Resentment of industrial
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April 1, 2009 |
Unlike her predecessors South Africa's new Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, is promoting safer sex, testing, antiretroviral drugs, and disease education to try and fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. For years HIV and AIDS were not talked about
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March 31, 2009 |
After years of research and billions of dollars, California scientists believe that they are close to producing fusion, the same power that makes the sun burn, as an alternative source of energy. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in
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March 30, 2009 |
In this four minute video, Great Depression historian Robert McElvaine describes research that shows how economic downturns can lead people away from conspicuous consumption to a more community-oriented way of life. McElvaine wrote a book called "Down and Out in
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March 27, 2009 |
President Barack Obama hosted the first presidential online chat yesterday, answering questions submitted and voted on by visitors to Whitehouse.gov in a town hall style meeting that was also broadcast over the Internet. The event is part of the president's
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March 26, 2009 |
In his third report on health issues in South Africa, the NewsHour's Ray Suarez files this troubling piece about children who lose their parents to AIDS, a deadly disease that attacks the immune system. Orphaned children sometimes live alone and
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March 25, 2009 |
The Obama administration announced new stringent security measures along the border with Mexico to deal with the increasingly bloody drug war there. Since December, 2006, 10,000 people have been murdered in Mexico. Hundreds of police and other public officials have
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March 24, 2009 |
Many Afghan women and girls are seeing increased access to schools and other opportunities since the fall of Taliban rule in 2001, but they still encounter cultural barriers to education and personal independence. Although school attendance for girls is up
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March 23, 2009 |
President Obama recently visited the Village Academy High School in Pomona, Calif., after watching a video students made as part of an English class. In the video, which went viral on YouTube, the students articulated the struggles of millions of
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March 20, 2009 |
President Barack Obama sent Iran and its citizens a video message Friday, saying the United States is prepared to end years of strained relations if Tehran tones down its rhetoric. The video was timed to the major holiday festival of
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March 20, 2009 |
President Obama made reprioritizing the war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Taliban a key component of his campaign. Now sixty days into the presidency, Obama has announced a scaling down of troops in Iraq and has promised 17,000
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March 19, 2009 |
Afghanistan is a country still undergoing big changes after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the authoritarian Islamic rule of the Taliban. In this report, NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner travels the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan and talks to a variety of
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March 18, 2009 |
During the present financial crisis, everyone has heard about the trillions of dollars the federal government is spending to help fix the economy. In this report, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman explains where all that money actually comes from. Solman
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March 17, 2009 |
President Barack Obama and members of Congress expressed outrage yesterday after the struggling insurance company AIG revealed that it had spent $165 million in bonuses to executives, even after receiving $170 billion in bailout money from taxpayers. President Obama chastised
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March 16, 2009 |
With the economy is such a fragile state, President Barack Obama must walk the fine line between inspiring optimism and fostering realistic expectations for the future. In this video, regular NewsHour commentator Mark Shields and former Reagan speechwriter Michael Gerson,
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March 13, 2009 |
Investment fund manager Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to the largest fraud in American history and was sent to prison for running a ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of billions of dollars. He faces a maximum of 150 years
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March 12, 2009 |
President Obama on Wednesday signed a $410 billion budget bill leftover from last year thus preventing the federal government from running out of money. But the bill also contained billions of dollars in earmarks - special requests for money for
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March 11, 2009 |
This weekend President Obama told the New York Times that some top U.S. officials have suggested trying to talk to factions among the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban, and so has Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This idea of engagement worked in Iraq
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March 10, 2009 |
Americans are using public transportation in huge numbers, but the cost of maintaining public bus and rail systems is making it difficult to keep up with higher demand. The American Public Transportation Association reported that last year, Americans relied on
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March 9, 2009 |
President Obama went to Elkhart, Indiana last month to sell his stimulus package against a backdrop of despair. The town has dubious distinction of losing jobs at the highest rate in the country: unemployment has jumped to 18 percent from
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March 5, 2009 |
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan for atrocities committed in Darfur. The arrest warrant lists five counts of crimes against humanity -- murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, and rape --
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March 5, 2009 |
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy is calling for a "truth commission" to investigate possible illegal actions by the Bush administration in their efforts to protect America from terrorists. Senator Leahy said a commission can determine whether the former president
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March 4, 2009 |
After the Republican Party lost the Whitehouse and seats in Congress in November many are questioning who is the leader for the new Grand Old Party. Michael Steele, the newly elected party chairman, recently dismissed influential conservative talk show host
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March 3, 2009 |
President Barack Obama nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be secretary of health and human services, placing her in charge of his efforts to reform the nation's expensive and inefficient health care system. As the Democratic governor and former state
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March 2, 2009 |
Following the announcement of his plans to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Iraq by 2010, President Barack Obama sat down with Jim Lehrer to talk about his plans for ending the war in Iraq and stabilizing Afghanistan. President Obama appeared in
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February 27, 2009 |
White House Budget Director Peter Orszag personally delivered the Obama administration's new budget to the U.S. Capitol yesterday. At 134 pages it is still only an outline of the president's budget, but it speaks volumes about the administration's priorities. The
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February 26, 2009 |
There are over 9,000 banks in the United States. Some are doing fine in this economic crisis, some are not. Over the next few weeks, the Obama Administration plans to test 20 of the biggest banks to make sure they
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February 25, 2009 |
Approximately one month after taking office, President Barack Obama gave his first address to a joint session of Congress, outlining his vision for how the country will recover from the financial crisis. He spoke in the House chamber in the
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February 24, 2009 |
An elaborate arts festival called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World" begins this week at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The $10 million event will feature music, dance and theater from the Arab world. It will
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February 23, 2009 |
While the economic news is definitely dismal, there are a few groups benefiting from the current recession. In this report, economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to a software developer who lost his job and has found a second career, and
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February 20, 2009 |
While the government is encouraging Americans to spend more money as a way to lift the economy out of the recession, TV ads featuring the superhero "Savings Man," has been urging consumers to save for over a decade. The man
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February 19, 2009 |
President Barack Obama is making his first foreign trip as president by visiting our friendly neighbor to the north, Canada, to talk about trade and the economy. This video report looks at the gloomy attitude Canadians have toward their economy
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February 18, 2009 |
President Obama has made changing U.S. energy policy to rely more on renewable sources a top priority. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to push his large and influential state to 33% renewable energy by 2020. Northern California's Pacific
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February 17, 2009 |
With America experiencing one of the most serious economic downturns in recent history, families across the country are coping with the financial crisis first-hand. The Balli family live in California where one in 25 homes faces foreclosure. All around the
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February 16, 2009 |
In our current economic crisis with the fate of the United States uncertain, Economics Correspondent Paul Solman talks to Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond to understand why some societies come out of a crisis stronger while others tear themselves
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February 13, 2009 |
In this NewsHour discussion hosted by Jeffrey Brown, three historians with different perspectives discuss President Abraham Lincoln's legacy and President Barack Obama's affinity for him. President Obama honored Lincoln at two ceremonies - one at the U.S. Capitol and the
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February 12, 2009 |
With unemployment on the rise and almost 2 million workers laid off in the last months more and more people are left without healthcare and are turning to government for help. A recent study estimates that for every percentage point
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February 11, 2009 |
After 20 years of scandal over steroid use in baseball, two more star players are tarnished. Yankees third basemen, Alex Rodriguez, admitted to using steroids early in his career saying "I was young. I was stupid. I was naive." He
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February 10, 2009 |
In his first prime-time press conference Monday night, President Barack Obama urged the American people to support the economic stimulus bill currently making its way through congress. The package, which would invest millions of dollars in federal programs, recently received
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February 9, 2009 |
One solution to the banking crisis that is gaining currency is the idea of splitting banks into "good" banks and "bad" banks. To do this the United States government would buy all the toxic mortgage-backed assets and put them into
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February 6, 2009 |
President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are working hard to pass an economic stimulus bill, but they face heavy opposition from Senate Republicans who object to the bill's high price tag of at least $800 billion. Supporters of the stimulus
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February 5, 2009 |
President Barack Obama announced plans to limit the pay of executives whose companies receive taxpayer money to get through the financial crisis. After the news media reported that Wall Street firms, some of which took billions in taxpayer money from
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February 4, 2009 |
More than three years after the devastating Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans public schools are still hurting. Truancy has become a major problem and even the majority of students who come to school are woefully behind national standards. On an
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February 3, 2009 |
Some of President Barack Obama's nominees for Cabinet positions are facing serious hurdles to their confirmations because of previous mistakes. President Obama nominated Former Senator Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services, but he has had
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February 2, 2009 |
The economic slowdown has paralyzed the otherwise busy port of Long Beach, California, where billions of dollars worth of imports and exports used to flow into and out of the country. Car companies are leasing lots just to stock up
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January 30, 2009 |
President Obama lashed out at Wall Street over reports that bank executives collected more than $18 billion in bonuses last year, while some of their companies received billions of dollars in aid from the government. "That is the height of
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January 29, 2009 |
While some politicians and environmentalists believe that "biofuels" like corn ethanol could lower America's dependence on foreign oil, others argue that ethanol actually costs energy to produce and has disastrous effects on food production. As Iowa farmers use more land
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January 28, 2009 |
President Obama gave the first interview of his new administration Monday, sitting down with journalist Hisham Melhem for the Dubai-based Arab channel, Al Arabiya. The president talked about his hopes for presenting a new image of America to the Muslim
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January 27, 2009 |
Starting soon, by federal mandate, American TV stations will broadcast exclusively with digital signals, meaning that television sets using older, analog signals will no longer work. Television stations currently use both analog and digital signals, but will switch to using
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January 26, 2009 |
NewsHour Arts Correspondent Jeff Brown was in Lebanon, Egypt and Kuwait during the transition from President Bush to President Obama preparing a number of arts pieces, but also talking politics. The Obama inauguration also took place with the backdrop of
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January 23, 2009 |
As the economy continues to fumble, once infallible high tech firms are also proving they are affected by the market. This week Microsoft and Intel announced job cuts- the first time ever for Microsoft-bringing the total amount of tech industry
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January 22, 2009 |
At 12:01 pm January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama became President Obama, whitehouse.gov underwent a dramatic change as well. The Bush administration's whitehouse.gov became a new site modeled after Obama's campaign and transition Web sites. The Obama administration's Web presence
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January 21, 2009 |
How will President Barack Obama's inauguration speech go down in history? He began by thanking President Bush for his service, as well as the generosity and cooperation the transition, but then made several pointed references to policies and directions that
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January 19, 2009 |
Did you know that slaves helped build the White House and the U.S. Capitol? Or that right in front of where Barack Obama is going to take his oath of office used to be a tent city for slaves and
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January 16, 2009 |
Next month, next year, next decade? Americans are anxiously asking when the economic downturn with its job losses and bad news is going to end. NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman visits various locations: the Tummy Tuck jeans factory, the largest
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January 15, 2009 |
In a 30-minute interview with Jim Lehrer, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's record on the war in Iraq and fighting terrorism. Cheney, who grants few interviews, talked with Lehrer about the troubled economy, his administration's low
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January 14, 2009 |
Washington, D.C., schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is a controversial and influential public official: during her first few months in office she has made big changes to a school system with many problems. In an effort to adapt to big changes
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January 13, 2009 |
Lebanon, Israel's northern neighbor, is no stranger to violent conflict. The country went thorough a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990 and fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006. As Israel invades the nearby Gaza Strip, people on
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January 12, 2009 |
Some of the nation's brightest economists failed to predict the foreclosure crisis and economic recession that followed. In this video, Economics Correspondent Paul Solman attends a conference of 10,000 economists and asks them why so few connected the dots in
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January 8, 2009 |
As health care becomes more expensive, even Americans who have health insurance are struggling to get the medical care that they need. In this report, the NewsHour's Betty Ann Bowser interviews people who have health insurance but decide to forego
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January 7, 2009 |
The opening day of the 111th Congress was dramatic as new members of Congress were sworn in and leaders turned away Roland Burris, Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment to fill Mr. Obama's Senate seat. Burris' appointment is controversial because Blagojevich is
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January 6, 2009 |
After a week of aerial assaults against Hamas-ruled Gaza, Israel sent in ground troops in an effort to end Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. More than 400 Gazans have been killed and some 1,700 have been wounded in the Israeli
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January 5, 2009 |
Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, who was arrested last month on corruption charges, named one of Illinois' most well-known black political figures to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat. The appointment of former State Attorney General Roland Burris drew rebukes
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December 31, 2008 |
The International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) invites students from around the world to craft biological "machines," or living organisms, using original combinations of DNA and other organic material to help tackle environmental and health problems. Synthetic biology is a
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December 29, 2008 |
Just three years after Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana is trying to rise from the ashes with the largest contemporary art exhibit in United States history. "Prospect 1" brings together the work of over 80 artists, some from as far
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December 24, 2008 |
In our troubled economy one program is giving students new hope: Year Up, a year long training program for so called "disconnected youth". Begun in 2000 and already in 6 different urban areas, Year Up pays young adults for five
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December 23, 2008 |
Richard Proudfit's humanitarian organization, Kids Against Hunger will deliver 40 million meals to children in countries all over the world this year and next year they plan to double production to 80 million meals. The group was started in the
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December 22, 2008 |
President Bush announced Friday that the Treasury Department will provide more than $17 billion in emergency loans to General Motors and Chrysler. The funds will come from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed by Congress. "If we were
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December 19, 2008 |
President-elect Barack Obama has angered many of his supporters this week by selecting the evangelical pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church to speak at his inauguration. While Warren, the leader of twenty thousand member church in Orange County, California is
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December 18, 2008 |
The Women's Bean Project in Denver, Colorado is a unique non-profit program that helps poor women who have few options in life a way to get important job skills and experience. Social entrepreneur Jossy Eyre founded the program 20 years
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December 17, 2008 |
Consumer spending is at an all time low in the United States; this means less money is put into the economy and less money spread around. According to a recent Pew poll, 73 percent of Americans intend to spend less
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December 16, 2008 |
In a surprise weekend visit to Iraq President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially signed the status-of-forces agreement that calls on U.S. forces to withdraw by 2011. The president's visit was supposed to highlight to relative calm of
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December 15, 2008 |
Poet Kwame Dawes returned to Jamaica, the country he'd grown up in, last year to document the lives of victims of HIV/AIDS. More than one in every hundred people on the tiny island nation is infected with HIV. While there,
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December 12, 2008 |
Public university systems are straining to meet demand as more students are looking for an affordable education during tough economic times. With states cutting funding to schools and an overwhelming influx of students, public universities have had to turn away
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December 11, 2008 |
After Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested by federal agents Tuesday on charges he was trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat and trade public policy decisions for money, historians look at Illinois' long history of political corruption.
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December 10, 2008 |
Governor Rod Blagojevich, of Illinois was arrested and charged with corruption on December 9 in the early morning. The charges include an allegation that he conspired to profit from appointing the senator to succeed Barack Obama. He is also alleged
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December 9, 2008 |
NewsHour education correspondent John Merrow explores the high cost of higher education and its toll on students in this report. Sixty percent of students at four year colleges go to public institutions, but that doesn't necessarily mean affordable. The high
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December 8, 2008 |
In this report, NewsHour Special Correspondent Simon Marks travels to Ahmedabad, 340 miles north of Mumbai, for wedding season to see if the attacks on Mumbai Nov. 26 have changed life in other areas of the country. Cities like Ahmedabad
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December 5, 2008 |
As the American economy enters the second year of a recession, some of the institutions designed to help needy people are struggling with increased demand. Food banks across the country are reporting shortages during the holiday season as more people
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December 4, 2008 |
The heads of America's three largest car makers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - are in Washington, D.C., to ask the federal government for billions of dollars in loans. They told Congress in November that without help they couldn't
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December 3, 2008 |
After a week-long occupation of the main Bangkok International Airport by thousands of anti-government protestors, the Thailand Constitutional Courts have dissolved the ruling party and banned the sitting prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, from government for five years. The anti-government protesters
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December 2, 2008 |
As residents of Mumbai, India grapple with the attacks that have forever altered their city, NewsHour reporter Simon Marks talks to them about who is responsible and what happens next. Some of the terrorists arrived in the city by boat
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December 1, 2008 |
This video from ITN looks at survivors going home after the militant attacks at hotels, restaurants and other tourist sites across the Indian business capital, Mumbai, once known as Bombay. Indian police are interrogating the one gunman who was captured
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November 28, 2008 |
The Smithsonian National Museum of History reopened in November after a two-year, $85 million renovation. This report looks at how the Smithsonian Institution, which houses some of the nation's most important historical and scientific artifacts, including dinosaur skeletons and Dorothy's
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November 26, 2008 |
This video takes you to London, where the global economic crisis has hit almost everyone. The NewsHour's Margaret Warner talks to a cab driver who says business is way down and he has to drive every day to earn any
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November 25, 2008 |
President-elect Barack Obama Monday announced his top economic team, which will help him deal with an economy in serious crisis. The first seven minutes of this video are excerpts from the future president's press conference, as he announces his choice
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November 24, 2008 |
As President-elect Barack Obama introduces his new economic team and lawmakers in Congress debate whether to help the American auto industry, NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman traveled to Detroit to hear from the men and women on the assembly line
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November 21, 2008 |
As the lame duck congress comes back into session many changes are afoot in government committees and sub-committees. Environmentalists cheered a surprise change in leadership of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which controls much of the laws dealing with global
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November 20, 2008 |
An increasingly-sophisticated band of pirates off the coast of Somalia is capturing and holding hostage a number of ships. In this video, experts explain how these 21st century pirates operate and make money. So far this year, pirates have made
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November 19, 2008 |
Seventeen years after the First Gulf War a congressionally mandated report released this week concluded that Gulf War illness is indeed real and confirmed. The report finds that one quarter of the 700,000 returning veterans are afflicted by the illness.
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November 18, 2008 |
In India, a water resources dispute between local farmers and soft-drink producer Coca-Cola has attracted international attention. Farmers report that water levels under their land now drop 10 feet every year because of the water used by Coke factories, instead
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November 17, 2008 |
This video contains a 2:30 minute report on a November 14 meeting of Republican governors who are grappling with the Party's defeat in the 2008 elections. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says, "I promise you: Americans will be looking to their
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November 14, 2008 |
Some researchers believe that more than five million square miles of the Pacific Ocean has become a garbage patch of plastic trash from North America and Asia. The trash is carried from shorelines by ocean currents to an area called
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November 13, 2008 |
In an interview the NewsHour's Ray Suarez, high-profile national security aides to past presidents discussed the scope of the international issues facing President-elect Barack Obama when he becomes president on January 20, 2008. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft discussed four
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November 12, 2008 |
India is the second largest country in the world in terms of population and years of pent-up demand have made it one of the world's fastest-growing car markets. India's Tata motor company wants all Indians to own a car if
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November 11, 2008 |
The army reports that suicides among active duty personnel have doubled in recent years. With low recruitment levels and wars continuing in both Iraq and Afghanistan, many soldiers have had to deploy multiple times, which might be contributing to the
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November 10, 2008 |
Three days after Senator Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential race, he held a press conference to answer questions about the economy and his priorities when he takes office in 72 days. Questions ranged from the economy and tax cuts,
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November 7, 2008 |
This video looks at the transfer of power between President George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama and how past presidents have managed the transition period. One of the guests, Steven Hess, author of the book "What Do We Do Now?
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November 6, 2008 |
How does the election of Barack Obama fit into American History? This panel of historians connects Barack Obama's victory to important points in history, including slavery, the intents of the Founding Fathers, the Civil War and Reconstruction. It also ties
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November 5, 2008 |
In a historic election lasting over 21 months, Senator Barack Obama was elected president on November 4th. While the results from some states are not yet known, Obama will win at least 338 Electoral College votes to John McCain's 168.
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November 4, 2008 |
Video Your Vote is a joint project between the NewsHour and YouTube to document the experiences of new and old voters across the country and to collect voter opinions on the 2008 election. Cameras were sent out to almost 50
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November 3, 2008 |
Some reliably Republican stalwart states have turned into real battlegrounds this year, in particular, Virginia, North Carolina and even Georgia. After a look at a few southern Senate races that may take an unexpected turn towards the Democrats, analysts discuss
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October 31, 2008 |
With record turnout expected in this year's presidential election many people are looking to see what effect the youth vote can have. The national organization Rock The Vote says it expects youth voter participation to rise this year, as it
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October 30, 2008 |
As the 2008 election on November 4 approaches, election experts are concerned about potential voting problems, especially with the expected high voter turnout. Two election lawyers spoke with the NewsHour's Gwen Ifill about potential voting problems - both agreed that
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October 29, 2008 |
With just days left in the historic 2008 election the editorial boards of papers around the country are choosing their presidential endorsements. The editorial board of a newspaper is separate from the news content side and expresses the opinion of
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October 28, 2008 |
After three hurricanes and a tropical storm hit Haiti this summer, the island nation is still waiting for relief. One tenth of Haiti's population, approximately 800,000 people, are homeless and the United Nations says that 80 percent oh Haitians live
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October 27, 2008 |
This moving report looks at the work of a company that clears out homes that have gone through foreclosure. Because the banks want the houses to be ready for sale as soon as possible, John Plocher's company does what he
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October 24, 2008 |
As the stock market tanks and countries around the world scramble to avoid even more financial damage, the man who was in charge of the Central Bank for 18 years, Alan Greenspan, testified before Congress for the first time on
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October 23, 2008 |
Barack Obama may be the nation's first African-American major party presidential nominee, but he has run a studiously race-neutral campaign. Still, the race issue never quite goes away, whether it is raised by worried supporters, like the Pennsylvania congressman who
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October 22, 2008 |
In the second in a series of reports about the nation's crumbling infrastructure, Ray Suarez takes a look at the port of New Orleans. This port is important because it lies at the juncture of the nation's largest river system
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October 21, 2008 |
The aging infrastructure of roads and bridges in America was in the spotlight last year when a bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 commuters. Most of the country's transportation infrastructure of roads and bridges was put in place in the
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October 20, 2008 |
As the country gears up for November 4, election officials are working around the clock to ensure that every vote is counted. This report looks at past problems in New Mexico, where a missing box of ballots may have thrown
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October 17, 2008 |
The gap between America's rich and poor is a core problem that both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have discussed during the 2008 presidential campaign. Los Alamos, New Mexico is the wealthiest community in America, but families are struggling
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October 16, 2008 |
In the last of three presidential debates, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain faced off in a sit-down format exclusively about domestic issues: taxes, spending, health care, energy, education and other issues. Bob Schieffer of CBS News moderated the debate.
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October 15, 2008 |
Independent Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader is on the ballot in 45 States, do you know who he is? Ralph Nader, running for the third time, gives his take on the current U.S. economic situation and criticizes Senators McCain and
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October 14, 2008 |
National polls have Senator Obama leading Senator McCain by as many as 10 percentage points, but McCain is pledging that the election is far from over. McCain's campaign has been in the underdog position before and was able to bounce
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October 13, 2008 |
As the financial crisis that started in the U.S. housing market extends into a global credit crisis, experts on economics discussed the worsening situation with the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown. Among the guests is New York Times columnist and Princeton economics
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October 10, 2008 |
While global financial markets are dropping and most business is slowing in the United States, many in optimistic Silicon Valley are still not very worried. Credit markets are drying up, but venture capital money often comes from wealthy individuals and
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October 9, 2008 |
More than 35 years after Congress passed the Clean Water Act mandating that all waters in the United States be both fishable and swimmable, this goal has yet to be met. Scientists say that storm water runoff can cause large
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October 8, 2008 |
In the second of three presidential debates of the 2008 election, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama met for a 90 minute town hall debate in Nashville, Tennessee, which featured questions from an audience of undecided Tennessee voters. With just
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October 7, 2008 |
The U.S. Supreme Court starts its new session every first Monday in October. This year, the environment, First Amendment rights and consumer rights will be topics up for consideration, according to Marcia Coyle, from the National Law Journal. One of
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October 6, 2008 |
A $700 billion financial rescue plan won final approval in Congress Friday when the U.S. House approved a revised version of a bill it rejected earlier in the week. The controversial measure passed easily, 263-171. President Bush quickly signed the
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October 3, 2008 |
Opinions of the one and only vice presidential debate in the 2008 election depended on who the viewer supported going into the contest. Most agreed that Senator Joe Biden had a better grasp of the issues, but Governor Sarah Palin
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October 2, 2008 |
Dexter Filkins, foreign correspondent for the New York Times, has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has written a new book about witnessing terrible violence and chaos in those countries. Filkins spoke to the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about
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October 1, 2008 |
In the second in a series of reports about the battleground states, Judy Woodruff, reports on how the campaigns are working to get out the votes for their party in Florida. Both campaigns are using micro-targeting to pin point voters
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September 30, 2008 |
Judy Woodruff talks to voters in Florida about their economic worries and how it is affecting their voting choices. Young voters are concerned about finding jobs as the financial crisis on Wall Street escalates, and older voters are worried about
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September 29, 2008 |
In their first debate, Senators Obama and McCain talked about the crisis on Wall Street and how a government bailout would affect their spending priorities, tax policy, and foreign policy. Moderator Jim Lehrer questioned the candidates on the lessons they've
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September 26, 2008 |
In the final installment of a four part series of how the candidates would govern, Margaret Warner interviews advisers and past colleagues of Senator Obama to examine how he has overcome adversity in the past. The report looks at the
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September 25, 2008 |
In an ongoing series about the presidential candidates, Judy Woodruff reports on how Republican candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain has handled adversity and problems during his military and political career. The report touches on several difficult times in McCain's
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September 24, 2008 |
In the second of four installments on how the presidential candidates would lead, Margaret Warner talks to people who have worked closely with Obama over the years about his leadership style and decision making process. The first seven minutes of
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September 23, 2008 |
In the first installment of a series on how the presidential candidates would lead if elected, Judy Woodruff finds out how he makes decision from people who have worked with Republican Senator John McCain's for many years. The first five
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September 22, 2008 |
Following the Great Depression, large "universal banks" were broken down to separate commercial and investment banks giving rise to the giants of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, among others. Amid the current economic crisis of the past week many of
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September 19, 2008 |
In one of the most dramatic weeks of economic upheavals in recent history, a 158-year-old investment bank went belly-up, another was sold, and the government took over one of the world's largest insurance agencies. A few days later, central banks
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September 18, 2008 |
In the midst of stock market panic and a banking-industry meltdown, the federal government decided to rescue American International Group, Inc., Wednesday, from possible collapse, loaning the company $85 billion. The federal government now controls 80 percent of AIG, which
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September 17, 2008 |
Following the success of the troop surge in Iraq General Petraeus, the architect of the plan, is moving up to be the head of US Central Command in the area. His new post oversees Iraq, and the growing war in
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September 16, 2008 |
This video gives a rundown of the financial crisis and market panic created by the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers and the Bank of America takeover of troubled Merril Lynch. The deal was considered a life-saving move for Merril
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September 15, 2008 |
New ads are the focus of a heated debate over how negative the race for the presidency will get and whether candidates are stretching the truth or lying about each other's records. McCain's ads saying the Obama supported a law
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September 12, 2008 |
The New York Times reported Thursday that President Bush two months ago secretly approved orders for cross border raids from Afghanistan into Pakistan without prior permission from the Pakistani government. While the US has carried out airstrikes in the region
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September 11, 2008 |
Scientists celebrated this week when they successfully sent subatomic particles at a very high speed around a 17-mile underground tunnel in Geneva, Switzerland, called the Large Hadron Collider. The contraption might allow researchers to learn more about the creation of
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September 10, 2008 |
General David Petraeus , Commander of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker's recent reports state that the "surge" in troop levels 18 months ago has successfully reduced violence. On Tuesday, President Bush announced that
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September 9, 2008 |
The presidential candidates are in the home-stretch of the election, the last two months of the campaign. This video gives the latest from the campaign trail, as Sen. John McCain and his vice-presidential choice Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin work to
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September 8, 2008 |
With both national party conventions now complete, candidates John McCain and Barack Obama hit the ground running as the race accelerates to Election Day. Analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the road ahead. The bulk of their analysis revolves
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September 5, 2008 |
John McCain accepted the GOP nomination Thursday with a speech that reflected his maverick reputation and promised that "change is coming" to Washington. You can use this video and compare his speech to that of Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
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September 4, 2008 |
Cindy McCain, wife of GOP presidential nominee John McCain, discusses the campaign and her husband's vice president pick, Governor Sarah Palin. While Palin has faced criticism from some about whether she was correctly vetted, Cindy McCain calls her a "perfect
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September 3, 2008 |
NewsHour's economics correspondent Paul Solman recently toured northern Virginia with Nancy Pfotenhauer, an adviser to Sen. John McCain's campaign, to learn about the GOP presidential hopeful's economic policies and how they could impact everyday Americans. McCain's ideas include an 18.5-cent
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September 3, 2008 |
At the end of August, Senator John McCain announced Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate and the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee, sparking a flurry of debate over qualifications, and how she would perform the job of being second
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September 2, 2008 |
Although local officials deserved a large portion of the blame, the response three years ago to Hurricane Katrina was a political disaster for Republicans and President Bush. Polls showed the public came away with the sense that the president had
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September 1, 2008 |
Republican presidential candidate John McCain surprised many in his party by picking first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain called his decision "a game changer" and hopes to appeal to women voters, many of whom were angry
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August 29, 2008 |
Sen. Barack Obama made history Thursday night, becoming the first black presidential nominee of a major political party. But rather than dwelling on the milestone, Obama took sharp aim at his opponent, denouncing the policies of the Republican Party and
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August 28, 2008 |
In this video, Michelle Obama talks about her speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention and her role in the campaign to elect her husband, Barrack Obama, as president. In her speech, Michelle Obama introduced her family
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August 27, 2008 |
This video follows Laura Tyson, a chief economist under President Clinton, now advising Senator Obama, as she walks around a Denver neighborhood with Economics Reporter Paul Solman. They visit a house that is in foreclosure and then sit at
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August 26, 2008 |
In this video, three historians discuss how the Democratic Party has evolved into what it is today. As the party prepares to nominate Barack Obama as the first major party black candidate, the historians explain how the oldest political party
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August 25, 2008 |
In this video, NewsHour political analysts David Brooks of The New York Times and Mark Shields, a syndicated political columnist, discuss what Barack Obama needs to do at the Denver convention and review the recent political ad wars. The first
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August 21, 2008 |
In this video, the two major party candidates for president, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain give speeches at stops along the campaign trail; Senator Obama in Virginia, and Senator McCain in New Mexico. The two candidates outline what they
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August 19, 2008 |
In this video discussion, author Tony Horwitz talks about his new book, "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World," and how the American continent during 1500s is largely a forgotten time. While most students know about Columbus sailing
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August 18, 2008 |
In this video report, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels looks into how large businesses are producing new "green" household goods, catering to a new demand for environmentally-friendly products. Michels talks to representatives from cleaning product company Clorox, which is trying to
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August 15, 2008 |
In this video discussion, University of Chicago scientist Paul Sereno tells the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about how his team, looking for dinosaur bones in Niger, Africa, found two populations of humans in a burial ground; the bodies are 6,000 to
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August 14, 2008 |
Cyber attacks are the topic of this video, which serves as an explainer of how technology can be used to target an opponent's websites or online resources. While Georgia and Russia have clashed over two separatist provinces, tensions have also
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August 13, 2008 |
In this video discussion, the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown talks with Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Futterman about how NBC has changed its strategy for covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics and how that's impacted how Americans watch the games. Futterman tells
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August 7, 2008 |
This video report looks at the story of Bruce Ivins, an Army microbiologist who committed suicide just as federal prosecutors were preparing to file criminal charges against him in connection with the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people. You
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August 4, 2008 |
This video report looks at the effects of pollution on Olympic athletes and the residents of Beijing, host city for the 2008 Summer Games. Rapid Chinese industrialization and proximity to a desert makes Beijing a smog sink, and the presence
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August 4, 2008 |
This video looks at a traveling exhibit exploring the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s through photographs, including some that have never been seen before, and finds the stories behind the powerful images. Cameras recorded important figures, like
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August 4, 2008 |
This video looks at a traveling exhibit exploring the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s through photographs, including some that have never been seen before, and finds the stories behind the powerful images. Cameras recorded important figures, like
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July 15, 2008 |
This video addresses the controversy over a New Yorker magazine cover intended as a satire of the rumors spread about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama and his wife. The cartoon shows the Obamas in the Oval Office with
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June 25, 2008 |
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama would have very different energy policies if elected president. Senator John McCain proposes ideas such as a $5000 tax credit for people who purchase zero-emissions cars and a $300 million prize to the
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May 22, 2008 |
The Congressional Progressive Caucus recently heard presentations from returning troops alleging widespread misconduct they personally witnessed or participated in during their time in Iraq. They have dubbed themselves "Winter Soldiers," the same name used by Vietnam veterans who reported similar
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May 21, 2008 |
In this video, the NewsHour's Gwen Ifill talks with two experts about the role of lobbying in the presidential campaigns and government - a hot topic this election season. Lobbyists are hired by all types of people and industries to
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May 20, 2008 |
As corn prices have risen with demand for ethanol in recent years, corn farmers are prospering. But others - such as hog farmers who rely on corn feed - are facing tough times, and some critics blame ethanol demand for
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May 19, 2008 |
A Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges related to the suicide of a 13-year-old cyber-bullied MySpace user this week. In this video interview, an internet and privacy lawyer considers cyber bullying and how the law and the Web intersect.
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May 16, 2008 |
The California Supreme Court struck down a state ban on same-sex marriages, calling the law unconstitutional, and saying domestic partnerships are not an acceptable substitute for marriage. California and Massachusetts are now the only two states to legalize marriage for
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May 15, 2008 |
In an unusual decision, the Interior Department declared the polar bear species to be officially "threatened," under the Endangered Species Act, because of global warming. Scientific evidence shows that the shrinking Arctic ice cap will no longer support the polar
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May 13, 2008 |
In this enlightening video, NewsHour economics reporter Paul Solman reports on the innovators working to make the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase for the benefits of going green, bringing jobs and new hope to this economically depressed Rust Belt region. The
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May 8, 2008 |
Fifty years ago, Mildred Loving and her husband were convicted and sentenced for being married to each other. As Mildred later put it: "Richard and I love one another, and we want the right to live together in Virginia and
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May 8, 2008 |
The creation of a Jewish state in Palestine has been fraught with conflict that reverberates not only in politics, but in poetry and literature. This video report showcases the work of two celebrated poets, both Israeli citizens since 1948, one
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May 1, 2008 |
In this video report, we hear from the candidates, then from a tax policy expert analyzing whether the gas tax holiday is politically or economically feasible. The rising price of gas is on everyone's mind and tailor-made for engaging classroom
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April 30, 2008 |
Facing the threat of kidnapping, torture, and beheadings, Iraqi interpreters who have worked for U.S. forces are seeking safety for themselves and their families. In this video report, Lee Hochberg reports on their long and difficult search for refuge in
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April 28, 2008 |
In this NewsHour video report and discussion, three veteran commentators assess the ramifications of Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is having on the senator's presidential campaign. How will Obama respond? Will the issue of race become a dominant
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April 28, 2008 |
The NewsHour's Poetry Unit recently visited Terrance Hayes, author of three books of poetry and a professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University. He discusses ife as a poet in Pittsburgh. His video is the 32nd profile in NewsHour's
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April 25, 2008 |
This video report presents short clips of retired military leaders' TV appearances, followed by different perspectives from two media insiders. Your class can discuss what facts are known in this story. Has the Times uncovered a "smoking-gun" or is this
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