February 10, 2012 |
Amid the financial crisis that has plagued much of Europe since the global economic recession began in 2008, Germany has been the biggest success story. Its manufacturing sector continues to be strong, and its unemployment rate is the lowest in
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February 8, 2012 |
Victor Rios is able to work with youth on the fringes who struggle to stay in school because he used to be one of them. He was a gang member, a juvenile delinquent, and a high school dropout. But in
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February 7, 2012 |
For the past five years, photographer and college professor Richard Ross has been documenting juvenile detention facilities throughout the nation. With money acquired from a fellowship and a variety of other foundations, Ross was able to visit over 300 juvenile
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February 1, 2012 |
The.News correspondent Antonio Neves reports on the 13 billion devices connected to the Internet - the "Internet of Things." He talks to a Columbia University Professor and a director at IBM on how this interacting technology affects us and whether
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February 1, 2012 |
In this video, the.News correspondent Antonio Neves reports on how new redistricting issues around the country can affect the outcome of state elections and federal policy. Neves talks to reporters from ProPublica and The Washington Post as the United States
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January 31, 2012 |
Learning about statistics, the science that deals with the collection and interpretation of data, might not be very exciting to most students. But what if the lesson included Lego building blocks and a man who swallowed swords? Meet Hans Rosling,
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January 30, 2012 |
Scientists are trying to develop tissue-like electronics that conform better to human organs. Elastic electronics, they call it. John Rogers, professor of material science and engineering at the University of Illinois has developed a device that can wrap around a
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January 27, 2012 |
NewsHour Extra Director, Imani M. Cheers interviewed original Tuskegee Airman, Dr. Roscoe Brown, director Anthony Hemingway and actors David Oyelowo and Cuba Gooding Jr. to discuss the making of "Red Tails" and how it relates to some of the contemporary
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January 26, 2012 |
A year after Egyptians first took to the streets to demand the ouster of their longtime ruler, Hosni Mubarak, they took to Cairo's main square again to celebrate and, in some cases, to protest how slowly change is progressing. Egypt
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January 25, 2012 |
President Obama gave his third State of the Union address last night before members of Congress. He discussed ways to improve the economy, jobs and education, and called on Congress to put aside partisan differences to make decisions in the
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January 24, 2012 |
The Syrian government rejected an Arab League peace plan -- a proposal the organization hoped would end violence in the troubled country. The plan called for forming a unity government within two months that would be followed by supervised parliamentary
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January 23, 2012 |
Opponents of Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, have reportedly gathered more than one million signatures to force a recall election that could oust Walker well before his term is up. Wisconsin voters protested in huge numbers a year ago when Walker
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January 19, 2012 |
(Note to teachers: Please use the first 55 seconds of this broadcast piece for the exercise.) President Obama denied an application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands
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January 18, 2012 |
A cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of a small Italian island lies sideways in the water as divers try to determine whether any survivors remain inside. The biggest maritime disaster in recent memory has raised many questions
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January 17, 2012 |
Forty-eight years ago, civil rights leader Martin Luther King climbed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his well-known "I Have a Dream" speech. For the past seven years, students of Watkins Elementary in Washington D.C. have honored Dr.
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January 16, 2012 |
South African's ruling political party, the African National Congress, marked its 100th anniversary last week. In celebration, PBS stations around the country have begun airing a new series about the ANC and the international effort to end apartheid. The 5-part
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January 13, 2012 |
An Iranian nuclear scientists was recently assassinated, creating waves across the diplomatic world as Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel of involvement in the plot. the bombing was the latest in a string of attacks in Iran targeting top
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January 11, 2012 |
When people think about Antarctica, they often think of cold, ice, and not many living things. But, scientists recently discovered that miles below the sea near Antarctica, marine life is flourishing near underwater 'hot spots' created by geothermal activity. Scientists
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January 10, 2012 |
Tensions between the United States and Iran heightened after the Arab nation declared it wouldn't stop its nuclear program, and a U.S.-born Iranian man was sentenced to death by an Iranian court. In the first development, the Iranian supreme leader,
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January 9, 2012 |
A new study shows that replacing a bad teacher with an average or a good one can translate into a huge economic difference for students later in life. The study tracked students who are now in their 20s throughout elementary,
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January 6, 2012 |
U.S. officials recently announced a revised military strategy, involving a leaner, smaller fighting force with an increased presence in the Pacific Ocean region. The troop buildup in the Pacific is meant to keep tabs on a rising China while shifting
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January 5, 2012 |
The Republican campaign for president took a decisive turn after the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, with one contender dropping out of the race and others heading to New Hampshire and South Carolina for the next round of primaries. Mitt
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January 4, 2012 |
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley are using cutting-edge technology to tap into the human brain. It's not mind-reading per say, but they are trying to piece together how parts of the brain react to what it sees in the world. According
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January 3, 2012 |
Republican presidential hopefuls are criss-crossing Iowa with last-minute hopes of convincing voters to choose them in the states caucuses on Jan. 3. In this year's contest, the first of the 2012 presidential race, many Iowa voters remain undecided and the
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December 30, 2011 |
Like many other cities across the nation, Oakland, Calif., is struggling to find a solution for its alarming dropout rates. It's a city with startling contrasts of wealth, boasting charming hillside neighborhoods with bay views and good schools. Still, 45
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December 29, 2011 |
Scientists in Kenya are taking part in a complicated and long-lasting global fight against Ug99, a fungal disease called 'wheat rust' that could destroy 80 percent of all known wheat varieties. Plant scientists Peter Njao and Ruth Wanyera said the
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December 27, 2011 |
Retailers served up deep discounts and easy gift exchanges to lure shoppers back to the malls. But, in the state of Colorado, school-age children have been prepped somewhat differently for the shopping season. A Colorado law that went into effect
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December 23, 2011 |
Every year, analysts look at holiday season retail spending to gauge how well the national economy is doing and how much money people have in their pockets. This year, people have been spending money at both discount stores and high-end
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December 22, 2011 |
NOTE TO TEACHERS: (This video contains some graphic images.) An estimated 10,000 women marched in Tahrir Square in one of the largest women-only protests in Egyptian history. The women shouted and waved signs, and many demanded that the general step
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December 21, 2011 |
Images on television have shown North Koreans in a constant state of mourning since their 'Dear Leader,' Kim Jong-Il, passed away of a heart attack. However, some North Koreans who have escaped to South Korea say many North Koreans are
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December 20, 2011 |
In 2007, Patrick McGrann, an American who now lives in Gaza, started a non-profit toy company named Kitegang to help kids fly kites in refugee neighborhoods in Gaza and Jordan. According to McGrann, he's trying to bring help to kids
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December 19, 2011 |
The 'Little Rock Nine' famously de-segregated Little Rock High School in Arkansas in 1957. A new book tells the story of one of those nine students, Elizabeth Eckford, who is featured in a famous photograph of her being heckled for
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December 16, 2011 |
Regeneration of human body parts has posed a challenge to scientists for generations, but now one group of researchers is closer than ever to developing a way to re-grow human organs and limbs. By using body parts from other animals
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December 15, 2011 |
President Obama welcomed the end of the war in Iraq this week at Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army base in North Carolina. All U.S. troops are due to leave the Arab nation before the end of this month. "And on
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December 14, 2011 |
Telling fact from fiction is becoming more and more challenging as people consume information through multiple channels, 24 hours a day. For young people, the challenge of interpreting the news is especially great. The News Literacy Project, a nationwide initiative
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December 13, 2011 |
Washington's Puget Sound is severely polluted with chemicals, fertilizers and other runoff that enters the waterway through storm drains. When it rains, the rainwater takes pollutants from the streets and people's lawns directly into the area's waterways. A group of
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December 12, 2011 |
Leaders of 27 European nations met to reach a deal to save the euro, the official currency used by the members of the euro zone. In the end, the European nations agreed to tie their budgets closer and force financial
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December 8, 2011 |
After 20 years and $600 million worth of research, NASA scientists announced they found the first planet in the habitable, or liveable, zone. Reports say the planet, Kepler-22b, is similar to Earth, though bigger, and the temperature averages about 72
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December 7, 2011 |
The state of Louisiana has a rich cultural history that goes back to the first French explorers who settled the land and spread their language and traditions. A growing offering of French immersion schools is putting young Louisianans in touch
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December 6, 2011 |
Scientists say that there are only a few sources of power so far discovered by humans that can meet the energy demands of today's society: Fossil fuels, nuclear power, wind, and solar power are all capable of producing enough power
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December 5, 2011 |
Small businesses have been at the center of the political debate of the American jobs crisis for a while, and many people wonder why they are not hiring as many workers as in the past. Some small business owners in
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December 2, 2011 |
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been using full body scanners in airports for about a year now, and many scientists continue to wonder whether they pose a health risk to travelers because of the small amount of radiation they
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December 1, 2011 |
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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November 30, 2011 |
Groundbreaking elections are being held in two African countries: Egypt and Congo. In Egypt, crowds stood in line for hours to cast votes for a new parliament. Meanwhile, the Congolese people endured violence and brutal attacks to cast their votes
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November 29, 2011 |
NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the recent launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. It will take Curiosity, the space exploration vehicle, nine months and approximately 354 million miles to get
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November 28, 2011 |
Detroit's public schools have been called "arguably the worst in the nation" by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, but many students and teachers in the district are trying to turn things around with a host of new programs and initiatives.
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November 23, 2011 |
Egyptians have already achieved one remarkable revolution this year. Now they're going for the double. Thousands of people have been protesting daily in Tahrir Square, the same place they protested in February and successfully forced President Mubarak to resign. And
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November 22, 2011 |
Reading, Pennsylvania, about an hour away from Philadelphia, has earned the unfortunate title of the "poorest city in America." Once a major manufacturing town, most of Reading's factories have closed their doors and laid off hundreds of workers during the
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November 21, 2011 |
The clock is ticking on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on a "supercommittee" designed to make cuts from the government's budget are having a hard time reaching an agreement. If they don't decide on a plan for how to bring down
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November 18, 2011 |
Months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan, scientists are hard at work trying to figure out a way to keep tsunamis from causing similar destruction in the future. Through mechanical engineering, safe building and early
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November 17, 2011 |
Four astronauts were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. The decoration is awarded to an individual or individuals who perform an outstanding deed or act of service to the security, prosperity, and national interest of the
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November 16, 2011 |
After about two months of protesting in New York City's Zuccotti Park, the Occupy Wall Street movement suffered a blow when the city ruled they could no longer camp there. After many arguments from both sides of the issue, a
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November 15, 2011 |
Civil war in Somalia between the government and the al-Qaida-linked terror group, al-Shabab, is forcing many Somali refugees to escape via Ethiopia. Reports say about 400 refugees arrive at the Ethiopia-Somali border every single day, most of them women and
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November 14, 2011 |
After soldiers return from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, they often face a hurdle that's, in some cases, more difficult than any they experienced in the military: finding a job. Many veterans report that even though they had complex, challenging
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November 11, 2011 |
Although the devastating tsunami that destroyed Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and villages along the country's northeast coast happened more than six months ago, pockets of radiation from the crippled plant remain in many parts of the country. The group
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November 11, 2011 |
Although the devastating tsunami that destroyed Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and villages along the country's northeast coast happened more than six months ago, pockets of radiation from the crippled plant remain in many parts of the country. The group
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November 9, 2011 |
Over 100 educators from St. Louis gathered for a teacher town hall to discuss the dropout epidemic and the challenges they face in the classroom. This town hall, and 11 others across the nation, are part of the larger American
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November 8, 2011 |
As part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on the destructive lure of gold in remote areas of Peru. In southeastern Peru, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon lies one
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November 7, 2011 |
Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in the Western hemisphere, so its people are constantly looking for a leader who can fulfill their everyday needs of clothing, food and shelter. For many years, their chosen leader has been Daniel Ortega, who
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November 3, 2011 |
Thousands of protesters joined with the Occupy Oakland movement in a general strike aimed at shutting down schools, banks, corporations and the city's busy port. The strike and movement have targeted the wealthy, or the 1 percent of the population
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November 2, 2011 |
The European nation of Greece has been on a financial rollercoaster recently, since it is severely in debt and needs help from the rest of the European Union to keep it from defaulting on what it owes its creditors. If
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November 1, 2011 |
Doctors and patients across the U.S. are struggling to attain essential prescription drugs that are dangerously in short supply. The list includes 178 drugs, antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs used to kill cancers and medicines that save lives in the emergency room.
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October 31, 2011 |
Farmers in Alabama rely on immigrant workers for picking the produce they grow and send on to grocery stores around the country. However, Alabama's new, strict immigration law has led most of those workers to leave the state in fear
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October 28, 2011 |
Analysts expect the world population to hit 7 billion any day now, and many are wondering what the future will look like as the number of humans on earth continues to rise rapidly. It took all of human history up
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October 27, 2011 |
The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City has spread across the country and caused major clashes with police in Oakland, Calif. Police moved in on protesters after they refused to leave a park where they'd been
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October 26, 2011 |
Countries that have experienced revolutions during the past year's 'Arab Spring' movement are in various stages of transitioning to democratic models of government, where they elect their own leaders. In Libya, dictator Moammar Gadhafi was recently killed by rebel fighters,
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October 25, 2011 |
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the nation of Turkey killing at least 279 people and injuring more than 1,000. The quake devastated the cities of Ercis and Van in eastern Turkey. Rescuers have redoubled their efforts, pulling survivors from the ruins
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October 24, 2011 |
President Obama announced a formal end to the U.S. war in Iraq, stating that all American troops would be out of the country by Dec. 31, 2011. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over," the president
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October 21, 2011 |
When most people think of Rio De Janeiro, visions of pristine sandy beaches and blue ocean waters come to mind. What doesn't come to mind are the violent, impoverished slums tucked away in the hills not too far away. This
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October 20, 2011 |
Moammar Gadhafi was an Army Colonel in 1969 when he lead a bloodless coup and overthrew Libya's king. For the past 42-years, Gadhafi has ruled the oil-rich North African country. While he had no official government function, he has ruled
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October 19, 2011 |
Each year, malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease, kills nearly 800,000 people. Many of them the youngest children in Africa. But the quest for the world's first malaria vaccine appears to have taken a big step. Reports say scientists are on
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October 18, 2011 |
The Occupy Wall Street protests that have taken over New York and other major U.S. cities are spreading further across the country and the world. Demonstrators from Germany to Tokyo are calling for less corporate greed and more opportunities for
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October 17, 2011 |
Southeast Asia's yearly rainy season, known as the monsoon season, has brought devastating flooding to parts of the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and now Thailand. Nearly nine million people have been affected by the floods in Thailand alone. Rice crops have
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October 14, 2011 |
Alabama's new immigration law known as HB-56, which was recently upheld by a federal judge, is starting to have an economic and social impact in the state. Representatives of the agricultural and construction industries say they are losing a significant
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October 13, 2011 |
Ernest Hemingway is one of America's most beloved and most mysterious literary figures, having traveled the world, fought in World War I, won the Nobel Prize, eventually settled in the mountains of Idaho and ultimately committed suicide in his cabin.
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October 12, 2011 |
In Pennsylvania's Mifflin County, students got a brand new high school and the community was looking forward to offering them a first-class education in the state-of-the-art building. However, when the economic recession hit, the district was forced to make tough
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October 11, 2011 |
Although many people criticize the U.S. government for using drones, or remotely piloted aircraft, as weapons to find and kill targets in other countries, their use has increased during the Obama administration. Reports say the U.S. has dramatically increased its
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October 10, 2011 |
The Nobel Committee in Norway recently announced that this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipients are three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and pro-democracy campaigner Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. The Liberian president is Africa's first democratically
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October 7, 2011 |
Protests against corporate greed and a lack of jobs, dubbed "Occupy Wall Street," are taking off in cities across the country. Protesters are calling themselves "the other 99 percent" - a reference to the richest 1% of Americans who hold
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October 5, 2011 |
Three American physicists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for their realization that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate thus transforming our understanding of how the cosmos works. Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley
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October 4, 2011 |
India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but it also has the world's largest population of undernourished children. The solution to that problem is beginning in a place students go every day - school. A national school
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October 3, 2011 |
As energy prices continue to rise, many homeowners are seeking ways to reduce their monthly bills. For one new homeowner who will soon live in a solar house, those energy bills will become a thing of the past. Lakiya Culley
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September 30, 2011 |
After a deadly tornado struck Joplin, Mo., residents of the city are determined to return to some sort of normalcy. Even though many of the residents are still literally picking up the pieces, they are eager to heal. And many
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September 29, 2011 |
When recession hit the U.S., many people who were once at the top of the economic ladder, with secure, well-paying jobs, lost those jobs and found themselves with an entirely different societal status. For many, striving to stay at the
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September 28, 2011 |
Tourists in the nation's capital watched in awe as engineers rappeled down the sides of the Washington Monument. The engineers are members of the Difficult Access Team from Chicago and their mission was to make checks for cracks and other
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September 27, 2011 |
The opera 'Porgy and Bess' by famed composers George and Ira Gershwin has been criticized frequently in its 76-year history for what some called its stereotypical portrayal of African-American life in the 1930s. Because the Gershwins were white, many felt
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September 26, 2011 |
Almost ten years after No Child Left Behind was signed into law, President Obama said the landmark educational law is not working. Proposed by the George W. Bush administration, NCLB supports standards-based education reform, which is based on the concept
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September 23, 2011 |
Poet and editor Jeffrey Yang has had many occasions to think about humans' relationships with nature in the past year, with wildfires, floods, tornadoes and a tsunami all making headlines. He has edited a new book of poetry called "Bird,
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September 22, 2011 |
Reports say one-third of U.S. high school students don't graduate on time and Latino and African-American boys are twice as likely to become high school dropouts. These numbers are staggering and it's a growing issue. In an effort to examine
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September 21, 2011 |
The Pentagon's controversial 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy officially ended yesterday amid celebrations by gay and lesbian service members who could, for the first time, be honest about their sexual orientation without the risk of losing their jobs. The 1993
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September 21, 2011 |
The Pentagon's controversial 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy officially ended yesterday amid celebrations by gay and lesbian service members who could, for the first time, be honest about their sexual orientation without the risk of losing their jobs. The 1993
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September 20, 2011 |
Since 1973, gray wolves have been on the endangered species list, a list of fish, wildlife and plants whose existence is threatened. But U.S. ranchers claim the wolf population is now large enough to sustain hunting and these ranchers were
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September 19, 2011 |
When some U.S. public schools faced a shortage of highly qualified math, science and special education teachers, they looked overseas, to the Philippines, for new instructors. When the new teachers arrived in the U.S., they found a very different educational
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September 16, 2011 |
You've probably heard that earthworms are good for the soil and can help create rich dirt for healthy gardens. And while earthworms may seem like harmless creatures, scientists are finding that certain earthworm species can be deadly to trees and
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September 15, 2011 |
Insulin has always been well-known for treating diabetes, a disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood. But what if a nasal spray containing insulin could prevent or slow Alzheimer's disease? A small study published Tuesday
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September 14, 2011 |
New U.S. census numbers show that the American poverty rate is at its highest since 1993, showing the fallout from years of high unemployment brought on by the economic recession. The current federal poverty rate is based on an income
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September 13, 2011 |
For many Russian circus artists, their talents can often lead to an array of opportunities. Opportunities such as consistent employment, the limelight and the chance to follow in their families' footsteps take shape. But these talents might also help some
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September 12, 2011 |
Youth who were school-aged at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are often called part of the '9/11 generation.' One group of young people who live 3,000 miles away from New York and Washington, D.C., in Clovis, Calif., sat
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September 9, 2011 |
Last night, President Obama gave a major speech on jobs and the economy before Congress, in which he outlined a new jobs plan. It's rare for a president to address Congress in situations other than the annual State of the
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September 8, 2011 |
If you live in the Northern hemisphere and consider yourself a stargazer, then grab your telescope or binoculars and head no further than your backyard. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently discovered a supernova about 21 million light
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September 7, 2011 |
After the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed in the 9/11 attacks, engineers started paying a lot more attention to the materials used to construct skyscrapers. Today, those overseeing the construction of new buildings at Ground Zero are especially conscious
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September 6, 2011 |
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11approaches, many people will reflect on where they were on that tragic morning. "The Class of 9/11," a documentary by independent filmmaker Jacques Menasche, looks at the powerful memories of a special group of eyewitnesses:
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September 2, 2011 |
Economists and government officials are poring over a new set of job numbers that give mixed signals but generally show that the U.S. economy and job growth are not improving as much as most would like. Although first-time claims for
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September 1, 2011 |
Although the rains and strong winds have stopped, communities throughout the northeast continue to assess damage caused by Hurricane Irene. According to reports, the death toll from Hurricane Irene rose again today to 45 killed in 13 states, as flooding
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August 31, 2011 |
Spanish poet Ernesto Cardenal is one of Latin America's best-known writers, but he has also been one of its most controversial. During the Nicaraguan revolution, he took on a significant political role and issued comments against the Vatican that resulted
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August 30, 2011 |
Doctors and patients are facing major a problem as more than 180 critical drugs are in short supply across the United States. For 55-year-old civil engineer Bruce Blair, this shortage can potentially lead to the difference between life and death.
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August 29, 2011 |
A new memorial stands among statues to war heroes and past presidents on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.: a commanding sculpture of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., America's most influential civil rights leader. Although the memorial's official dedication
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August 26, 2011 |
In the world of college basketball, Pat Summitt is legendary. As coach, she has the most wins in college basketball history. She has led the University of Tennessee's Lady Vols for 37 seasons and won more than 1,070 games, including
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August 25, 2011 |
Firefights between Libyan rebels and loyalists continue as the nation's president Moammar Gadhafi remains at large. According to reports, Colonel Gadhafi has not been seen in public since April. However, in a radio broadcast last night, he vowed to fight
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August 24, 2011 |
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the East Coast of the U.S. yesterday, causing minor damage and shocking many who are not used to such seismic events. Office workers flooded streets in downtown Washington, D.C. after the shaking, which was felt
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August 23, 2011 |
As the situation in Libya continues to fluctuate and longtime leader Muammar Gadhafi's power appears to wane, world leaders are rallying to have a voice in forming Libya's next government. President Obama said the U.S. would work with the newly
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August 22, 2011 |
For many colleges students across the U.S., the end of summer signals a time of change and new beginnings. Students face new classes, roommates, college professors and sometimes even new campuses. But college students around the nation, are also facing
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August 19, 2011 |
After five months of uprising in Syria, President Obama issued a statement calling for the troubled nation's president Bashar al-Assad to step down. Rights groups say the Syrian government has killed thousands of its own people. In his statement, Obama
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August 18, 2011 |
Just as many Americans had started to pay down debts racked up before and during the recession that began in 2008, a new wave of economic trouble is hitting the country. Now, more people are facing layoffs and challenges that
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August 17, 2011 |
While they were waiting in line for tickets to the David Letterman show, NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman asked a random sampling of people to look at three pie charts representing how wealth is distributed in three different countries. In
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August 16, 2011 |
The fight for control of Libya continues between longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi's government forces and rebels who want to take government control away from him. Most recently, the rebels have gained more ground in the fight, advancing toward the long-embattled
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August 15, 2011 |
In an attempt to find ways to save money, the U.S. Postal Service is studying 3,700 mostly rural post offices for potential closure along with proposing to eliminate as many as 120,000 workers. The reason? According to reports, the U.S.
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August 12, 2011 |
After several days of rioting and looting in and around London, police finally established a forceful presence throughout the city. In a special meeting of Britain's Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron again denounced the culture that produced criminals as young
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August 11, 2011 |
Even though many New York City high schools have fought to increase the number of graduates, they continue to be labeled "dropout factories." Coined by Dr. Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins, a "dropout factory" is characterized as a school from
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August 10, 2011 |
When you think of the phrase, "Girl Power," you might just think of the term made popular by the Spice Girls in the mid to late 1990s. But this story doesn't feature Posh or Scary Spice, it highlights adolescent Americans
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August 9, 2011 |
Almost ten years after No Child Left Behind was created, a growing number of schools are having trouble meeting the law's benchmarks. States had been required to achieve 100 percent proficiency in reading and math by 2014. Proposed by the
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August 8, 2011 |
This is the second of two reports about Indian women who are paid to bear children for infertile Western couples. Note to teachers: Some of the material in this video may not be suitable for all ages. In India, parental
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August 5, 2011 |
Co-directed and produced by filmmakers Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha, "Made in India," documents the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and the reproductive outsourcing business that brings them together. In the film, viewers are introduced to
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August 4, 2011 |
Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted after weeks of protest earlier this year, stood trial today for allegedly ordering violence against protesters. The images from the trial were startling to many, as a gaunt Mubarak entered a plea
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August 3, 2011 |
For weeks, images of starving children and adults seeking aid from hunger and drought have captivated the world. But these image show only a glimpse of the tragedy affecting those in the Horn of Africa region. PBS NewsHour reports that
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August 2, 2011 |
Scientists have discovered an asteroid that is locked in a permanent dance around the sun with planet Earth. The asteroid is in the same orbit as Earth, meaning it will always travel at the same speed around the sun and
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August 1, 2011 |
Five years have passed since honeybees began dying in large numbers and hives started becoming extinct. Scientists are still trying to figure out why this is happening and what can be done to help the problem. Many continue to fear
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July 29, 2011 |
In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, a group of teenagers is currently trekking through some of the most remote country on Earth - a part of Northern British Columbia through which the Thelon River flows. Along the way, they'll encounter
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July 29, 2011 |
In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, a group of teenagers is currently trekking through some of the most remote country on Earth - a part of Canada's Northwest territories through which the Thelon River flows. Along the way, they'll encounter
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July 28, 2011 |
More than 11 million people are in need of aid in the Horn of Africa, a region beset by the worst drought in 50 years. In recent weeks alone, tens of thousands of people, many of them children, have died.
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July 27, 2011 |
The U.S. imprisons more people - currently 2.3 million - than any other country on Earth. Through a program from Bard College, some of those prisoners have a chance to do what they were unable to achieve in the outside
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July 26, 2011 |
The European nation of Norway grieved for the victims of Friday's shooting and bombing attacks as gunman Anders Behring Breivik confessed to carrying out the assaults that killed dozens. Breivik, however, did not accept criminal responsibility and pleaded not guilty
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July 25, 2011 |
A food crisis is currently overwhelming Somalia, a country that has struggled for survival for decades. Lines of starving Somalis, many carrying severely malnourished children, are making their way to refugee camps in hopes of finding help. An ongoing civil
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July 22, 2011 |
Indonesia, an Islamic country with a population of 240 million people, is being held up as a possible example of a democracy for countries like Tunisia and Egypt that recently experienced revolutions. Although Indonesia's economy has grown to one of
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July 21, 2011 |
For centuries, the Indonesian plant called gandarusa has been recognized by locals for its medicinal qualities. Typically, it has been used as an herbal remedy for stress and anxiety, but now people are drying the leaves, chopping them up, extracting
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July 20, 2011 |
In the 1960s, internationally-renowned concert pianist Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, a neurological disorder that can be triggered by repetitive movement and stress and attacks a particular set of
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July 19, 2011 |
Although the recent recession hit manufacturers especially hard and many of them had to lay off workers, one plant in Cleveland, Ohio has found a way to buck the trend and not let anyone go. Instead of paying their workers
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July 18, 2011 |
An oil spill on the Yellowstone River, which runs through one of America's most famous national parks, has communities and environmentalists concerned about the consequences of building oil pipelines through the northern U.S. from Canada. About 42,000 gallons of crude
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July 15, 2011 |
"Good Fortune," a film produced by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine, documents the U.N. effort to redevelop a slum in Nairobi called Kibera and how international efforts to alleviate poverty may be undermining the people they aim to help.
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July 14, 2011 |
For the past eight years, photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair has traveled the world gaining intimate access to families and child brides to document the practice of child marriage. The phenomenon of child marriage is far more common than many people think.
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July 13, 2011 |
They're tiny, they're speckled -- and they're disappearing. Many native species of ladybugs are vanishing, and citizen scientists from all over the nation, including kids, are helping professional scientists survey the entire country by collecting ladybug specimens, photographing them and
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July 12, 2011 |
Located in a remote area of northern China, the Xiangtangshan caves once contained shrines to religious figures called Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,containing statues and carvings that date back more than 2500 years. Over the years, however, the caves were repeatedly looted
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July 11, 2011 |
NASA's final space shuttle launch took place on Friday, July 8, destined for the International Space Station with four crew members on board. The launch marked a historic day for the space agency and for the country, as the three-decade-long
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July 8, 2011 |
As the U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end, space enthusiasts are eyeing the next prize in space travel: Mars. One of the biggest challenges for humans traveling to Mars will be the long-term isolation they will experience, so
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July 7, 2011 |
In his most recent endeavor to embrace and utilize social media, President Barack Obama used the popular social networking service Twitter to address public inquiries during a town hall meeting. According to the White House, more than 60,000 tweets were
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July 6, 2011 |
When most people think of classically trained chefs in a kitchen, they think of five-star restaurants, exclusive country clubs or even luxury cruises. But what if these culinary experts took their knowledge on the road to where America desperately needs
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July 5, 2011 |
Americans across the country and around the world celebrated the country's Independence Day yesterday with parades, fireworks and ceremonies meant to mark the nation's 235th birthday. In Afghanistan, troops received a visit from General David Petraeus, the top military commander
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July 4, 2011 |
Inventors, scientists and "do-it-yourself-ers" recently gathered, along with their best gadgets and inventions, at an event called the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. The annual gathering is meant to encourage invention and innovation among kids and adults alike, and
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July 1, 2011 |
A younger generation in the Republic of China is becoming increasingly frustrated and calling for change. Laborers typically work in factories for up to 16 hours per day, but the rising cost of living in China means they barely make
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June 30, 2011 |
Scientists, engineers and builders of all ages gather every year in San Francisco to celebrate their love of inventing things through an event called The Bay Area Maker Faire. The Maker Faire has become a gathering place for those who
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June 29, 2011 |
When most people hear the words bionic arms and eLegs, images from science fiction novels or films might come to mind. But scientists are creating a new generation of artificial body parts to help real people with real disabilities see,
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June 28, 2011 |
The Wallow fire, which has been burning for nearly a month, has destroyed more than half a million acres across eastern Arizona and western New Mexico and has displaced more than 10,000 people. The fire, which is the biggest in
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June 24, 2011 |
When ninth grade English teacher Lauren Fardig realized her students lacked basic knowledge about the realities of war and refugees, she decided to set aside the usual curriculum and take her students on a virtual journey to the Middle East.
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June 23, 2011 |
In a primetime address to the nation, President Barack Obama declared that the United States had achieved many of its goals in Afghanistan and announced a plan to withdraw 10,000 troops from the Middle Eastern country by the end of
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June 22, 2011 |
Beginning in September 2012, U.S. cigarette packs will display graphic images showing the gruesome health consequences of smoking. The Food and Drug Administration released nine color images that include a smoker's corpse, a man's chest with smoke exiting a tracheotomy
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May 27, 2011 |
In a divided 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population by more than 33,000 inmates, even if it means allowing prisoners to go free. The conclusion upheld a lower court decision stating
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May 26, 2011 |
Oprah Winfrey recently said farewell to 25 years of hosting her hit daytime talk show. Through the show, she reached hundreds of millions of viewers around the world and launched a multi-billion dollar empire that spans magazines, television, Broadway and
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May 25, 2011 |
In May 2010, Bradley E. Manning, a United States Army private, was arrested in Iraq for allegedly stealing thousands of classified government documents and sharing them with the website Wikileaks, a site that publishes private, secret and classified content from
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May 24, 2011 |
Missouri is in a state of emergency after a tornado tore through the city of Joplin leaving at least 116 people dead and more than a quarter of the city devastated. The tornado carved a path six miles long and
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May 23, 2011 |
In the wake of remarks by President Obama last week that Israelis and Palestinians should base negotiations on borders that were in place in 1967, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the U.S. and strongly condemned the use of those
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May 20, 2011 |
Israelis and Palestinians continue to fight over what land belongs to whom, an issue that President Obama addressed in his speech aimed at tensions in the Middle East. Mr. Obama restated U.S. support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
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May 19, 2011 |
Crew members on the Space Shuttle Endeavor's last mission answered the public's questions in a unique video conference led by NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien. The astronauts discussed social media, Mars exploration and the recovery of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords during
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May 18, 2011 |
The Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain has been the site of prolonged anti-government protests in the wake of revolutions in nearby Egypt and Tunisia. But, Bahrain's great rift between two types, or sects, of Islam - Sunni and Shia -
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May 17, 2011 |
The year was 1961. For seven months, hundreds of Americans, both black and white, got on buses and risked their lives for change. As a result, many of these Freedom Riders, who were young college students, were beaten by angry
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May 16, 2011 |
When you hear the words virtual reality or 3D glasses, you may be inclined to think of the newest video game or watching a movie at a local theater, but what if this same technology allowed students and researchers to
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May 12, 2011 |
Communities along the Mississippi River continue to prepare for massive flooding that is making its way downriver toward Louisiana. The Army Corps of Engineers is using a huge system of levees and spillways to try to control where the water
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May 11, 2011 |
As the school year draws to a close, school principals and superintendents across the country are facing budget cuts that force them to lay off teachers. In Hartford, Connecticut, officials are forced to lay off the teachers that were hired
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May 10, 2011 |
What began as a protest of a few hundred people escalated to a rally of tens of thousands, as citizens took to the streets to protest drug gang violence and the government crackdown that has led to 34,000 deaths since
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May 9, 2011 |
Service members in army combat uniforms cheered as President Barack Obama praised troops at Fort Campbell, Ky., for their efforts in the war against terrorism. Last week, special military units killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at a compound in
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May 6, 2011 |
With the unemployment rate in California at a staggering 12 percent, the prospect of a new government prison offers new jobs and economic prosperity for Californians. But what if the detention center is for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.,
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May 5, 2011 |
Following President Obama's announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces, the next question from the media and from any Americans was: will photos of his body be released to the public? President Obama answered that question
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May 4, 2011 |
In a PBS Frontline excerpt, an Afghan journalist investigates a growing number of militants who fight in the name of al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden. Journalist Najibullah Quraishi travels deep into volatile territory to interview soldiers such as Khan in
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May 3, 2011 |
President Obama announced late Sunday that the world's most wanted fugitive, Osama bin Laden, was killed by U.S. forces. The al-Qaida (also spelled Al Qaeda) leader and mastermind behind numerous terrorists attacks including the 9/11 attacks that killed almost 3,000
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May 2, 2011 |
President Barack Obama told the nation Sunday night that Osama bin Laden, long-hunted leader of the al-Qaida terror group and mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight in Pakistan. "Justice has been done," he said.
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April 29, 2011 |
Parts of the Southern U.S. have been ravaged by tornadoes and massive thunderstorms that destroyed homes and businesses and left communities reeling. Across Alabama, where the most devastation took place, people are surveying the damage and trying to pick up
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April 28, 2011 |
Thousands of people worldwide who used Sony's Playstation system and gave their credit card numbers for purchases may have been hacked, say experts behind the popular video game device. Sony disclosed that names, e-mail addresses, passwords and other personal information
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April 27, 2011 |
In Libya, fighting continues as rebels try to take down the government of longtime leader Muammar Gadhafi. Libyan citizens near the embattled city of Misrata recently braved the fighting to line up for much-needed food and fuel. Top U.S. and
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April 26, 2011 |
Protesters in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen filled the streets again in an ongoing round of protests against Yemen's president that have continued for months. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently announced he would step down in 30 days
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April 25, 2011 |
Much of the Gulf Coast oil spill story can be seen in photos from the tragedy. Gerald Herbert, a professional photographer covered the spill and returned for the one year anniversary to see how things had changed. He found some
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April 22, 2011 |
In New York City public schools there are more than 7,000 students with varying degrees of autism. At PS 176 in the Bronx, 700 students from preschool age to 21, go to school every day and federal law mandates that
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April 21, 2011 |
Fighting in Libya between forces loyal to dictator Moammar Gadhafi and rebel forces has grown even more intense in recent days and has been centered in the coastal city of Misrata. Five people, including two celebrated photojournalists, have been confirmed
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April 20, 2011 |
In the second report in Robert MacNeil's series, Autism Now, he examines the rise in autism diagnoses in children. According to the Centers for Disease Control, autism affects more American children than childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined with a
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April 19, 2011 |
More than 240 tornadoes ripped through several southern states over the past week, leaving a trail of devastation. Over 60 tornadoes were recorded in North Carolina alone and at least 44 people died in half-a-dozen states. Winds of up to
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April 18, 2011 |
It's been a year since the explosion of a BP oil rig that leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and reports are mixed over how the area's recovery and cleanup efforts are going. While visible
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April 15, 2011 |
Arctic explorer and filmmaker Sebastian Copeland and his partner Keith Heger trekked 400 miles on foot across virtually impossible terrain while dragging a 200-pound sled in temperatures as low as -50 degrees Fahrenheit to reach the North Pole. As sea
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April 14, 2011 |
The Apple iPhone, used by millions in the U.S., has come under scrutiny in China because many Chinese workers who work on its production say they have become ill from the chemicals used in the manufacturing process. The issue brings
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April 13, 2011 |
The Civil War began 150 year ago at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861 with an attack on the Union base at Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C. The first part of this video is an excerpt from Ken Burns' Civil
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April 12, 2011 |
One month after Japan's most devastating earthquake in recorded history, the entire country stopped for a moment of silence to remember the victims. Thousands of Japanese remain displaced by the quake, without homes and without any idea of when their
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April 11, 2011 |
In one North Carolina school district, textbooks are a thing of the past - at least in paper form. Students in the Mooresville, N.C. school system now learn exclusively on laptop computers, which are issued to every student and teacher
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April 8, 2011 |
France has increased their military presence over the past several weeks in Libya and their former colony, Ivory Coast. On March 19, France first sent warplanes into action over Libya, enforcing the no-fly zone with airstrikes. This week France also
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April 7, 2011 |
Congress is locked in a debate over how much money it should spend on the government budget, and unless members reach an agreement before money runs out in a few days, many government services will be shut down. Those services
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April 6, 2011 |
Studies have shown that children from low-income families are at risk of beginning school without a strong vocabulary that could lead to a school achievement gap. Educare, an early education program in Chicago aims to give children from high-risk, low-income
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April 5, 2011 |
In the wake of anti-government protests across the Middle East and North Africa, China is cracking down on any signs of protest among its people, who live under a Communist regime that maintains strict control of the country. Although there
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April 4, 2011 |
NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman examines some of the challenges facing military men and women when they return to civilian life after serving in battle. There are more than two million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Despite incentives to hire them,
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April 1, 2011 |
In the West African nation of Ivory Coast a civil war is brewing after democratic elections in November 2010 declared Alassane Ouattara the new President. The struggle between Ouattara and incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo has been raging for four months,
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March 31, 2011 |
Micro-lending, or giving small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, has become a worldwide trend in recent years and has largely been linked to positive economic growth. However, competition has become so stiff among micro-lending organizations that some borrowers are
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March 30, 2011 |
As Japan struggles to contain the fallout from four failed nuclear reactors, the world has developed renewed interest in Chernobyl, the site of the most serious nuclear accident to date. NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien found that nearly 25 years
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March 29, 2011 |
For college basketball fans, March Madness 2011 has truly been chaotic. Going into the Final Four competition this Saturday in Houston, 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU, who defeated top seed Kansas is only the third No. 11 seed ever
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March 28, 2011 |
As political turmoil continues in the Middle East and elsewhere, it can be difficult for human rights workers to document how many people are having their basic rights violated during the conflict. But, a new software tool being developed in
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March 25, 2011 |
NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the on the widening gap amongst many Americans despite signs that the economy is improving. While the stock market and corporate profits are increasing, many middle and working class Americans are still feeling
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March 24, 2011 |
As social and political unrest sweeps across the Arab world, the North African nation of Morocco is making constitutional reforms to quiet demands for among many things an end to widespread corruption and basic human rights. In comparison to Libya,
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March 23, 2011 |
On World Water Day, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on innovative techniques to assist slum dwellers in Bangladesh in getting access to clean water. This report is the most recent in a series on global population issues in collaboration with
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March 22, 2011 |
A coalition led by the U.S. military continued the air strike in Libya launching a dozen more cruise missiles with the hopes of imposing a no-fly zone and stopping Moammar Gadhafi's forces from attacking civilians. Currently on a Latin American
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March 21, 2011 |
The U.S. and other world leaders enforced a no-fly zone and other measures in Libya to deter Moammar Gadhafi and his forces from capturing key cities in the almost month long civil war. The authorization for military action came Thursday
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March 17, 2011 |
It's an exciting time to be exploring space, since scientists say humans now know more about the solar system we live in than ever before and our knowledge continues to grow. Currently, a spacecraft called Messenger that has been en
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March 16, 2011 |
A series of reports from the Independent Television Network examines how survivors of the deadly 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami are coping with multiple crises. In the aftermath of the March 11 events, several explosions at nuclear plants have heightened
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March 15, 2011 |
The biggest source of concern in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan are three of the country's nuclear power plants which were damaged in the quake and may be leaking radiation. Scientists are unsure how extensive
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March 14, 2011 |
The 8.9-maginitude earthquake that struck Japan on Friday, sent tsunami waves rippling across the Pacific for thousands of miles in every direction. Countries around the Pacific Rim from South Asia, Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji, Alaska, Canada, the mainland U.S. and
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March 11, 2011 |
An 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan overnight, causing massive destruction and triggering a tsunami that washed away houses, buildings and farmland across a large swath of northeastern Japan. Although Japan is among the most prepared countries for earthquakes, this quake
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March 10, 2011 |
A rampant fungal disease called White Nose Syndrome has scientists across the country worried about one of the ecosystem's most important participants: bats. The disease, which began in New York but now threatens to spread to the Pacific Northwest, makes
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March 9, 2011 |
The PBS NewsHour global health unit traveled to Guatemala recently to investigate the many obstacles to family planning in a strict traditional and religious society. In Latin America, fertility rates are the highest in Guatemala where it is common for
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March 8, 2011 |
The Central American country of Guatemala has seen decades of brutal civil war and violence at the hands of drug cartels, and the people who have perhaps suffered the most as a result are Guatemalan women. Cases of abuse, rape
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March 7, 2011 |
On the outskirts of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Gadhafi forces used deadly force to disperse hundreds of protesters as they marched from a nearby mosque. Witnesses said at least 18 people were killed there and civilians are living in
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March 4, 2011 |
Wars between rival drug cartels have plagued Mexico for years and were a hot topic when Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently paid a visit to President Obama at the White House. The U.S. plays an integral role in the drug
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March 3, 2011 |
Poet and professor Khaled Mattawa has been watching from afar as his homeland, Libya, experiences a violent and historic revolution. Mattawa remembers growing up in the Libyan city of Benghazi under the rule of the country's longtime dictator, Moammar Gadhafi,
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March 2, 2011 |
NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reported from Rhode Island about the ongoing battle between states and unions over pensions. While the biggest national fights in Wisconsin and Ohio continues over new bills to limit or end collective bargaining, in the
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March 1, 2011 |
In Iran, a local news and comedy show similar to "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" has gained immense popularity among Iranians who live under a strict regime. Broadcast by Voice of America in Washington, D.C., the show is called
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February 28, 2011 |
John Ray of Independent Television News reports from neighboring Tunisia on the humanitarian and medical workers preparation for the end of Moamamar Gadhafi's 42-year reign in Libya and the chaos that might ensue. As government militias continue to open fire
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February 25, 2011 |
On Feb. 24, the space shuttle Discovery was launched into space for its final mission before NASA retires the U.S. space shuttle program. Originally, the space shuttle program was pitched to Congress as a way to make space travel routine
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February 23, 2011 |
Charles Sennott reported for PBS' Frontline about the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's revolution and the influence they could hold in a post-Mubarak society. While Egypt's revolution began by young non-religious activists, the long-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood was a
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February 22, 2011 |
Libya is the latest country to be rocked by nationwide pro-democracy protests. However, the situation is much more volatile in Libya than in Egypt or Tunisia, as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has engaged his military in violence against the protesters.
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February 21, 2011 |
In order to decrease a multibillion dollar budget deficit in Wisconsin, the newly appointed Republican Gov. Scott Walker has introduced a plan that would cut the state's budget deficit by curbing public workers pay and their collective bargaining rights. Walker
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February 18, 2011 |
Mexico has long been plagued by violent drug wars waged between rival drug cartels who want to get their goods into the U.S. The police forces in Mexican towns try to keep the peace but put themselves at great risk
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February 17, 2011 |
Jeopardy!, a game that requires vast human knowledge, has been conquered by a computer. Watson, a machine built by IBM, is able to answer most Jeopardy! questions with remarkable accuracy, often beating seasoned human champions at the trivia game. While
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February 16, 2011 |
Warning: Some of the images in this video may be disturbing. With the ousting of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak last week a wave of similar protests are spreading throughout the Middle East. In the small Persian Gulf state of Bahrain
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February 15, 2011 |
As Egypt's mass protest achieved its main goal of ousting President Hosni Mubarak from power, labor unrest set off a new wave of smaller protest and strikes. Transportation workers, ambulance workers and police officers all demanded better working conditions and
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February 14, 2011 |
Correspondent Jon Meacham of the PBS program, "Need to Know", reports on how physical education is transforming academics at a suburban Chicago high school. Naperville Central, a public high school of almost 3,000 students uses exercise to not only get
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February 11, 2011 |
Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak has stepped down after 30 years of ruling Egypt and following 18 days of intense protests by Egyptians calling for his resignation. Before he left Cairo, he spoke to his people and gave the indication that
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February 10, 2011 |
NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from California on how to identify young people with mental illnesses before their problems become worse. The Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis program, or PREP, based in San Francisco, is designed to identify and
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February 9, 2011 |
What are "dirty bombs"? PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien examines the threat that radioactive "dirty bombs" pose to cities in the U.S., and what is being done to prevent a radiological attack. Unlike an atomic weapon, the radioactive materials
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February 8, 2011 |
On day 14 of massive anti-government protests in Egypt, life returned to some degree of normalcy for Cairo's citizens, with certain banks and shops opening their doors once more. But, a throng of protesters remained in the city's main square,
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February 7, 2011 |
Sunday, February 6, 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of former president Ronald Reagan's birth. With a yearlong observance of his life and legacy under way, the NewsHour acknowledges the occasion with a brief look at his political instincts that made
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February 4, 2011 |
NASA recently announced a major discovery, achieved through the use of its Kepler space telescope: scientists have identified as many as 1,200 likely new planets, several of which could harbor life. NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien says this is a
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February 3, 2011 |
Social media has played a major part in the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Protesters used applications like Facebook and Twitter to organize themselves and their movements. Analysts agree that social media puts young people in isolated countries, where communication
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February 2, 2011 |
Amid massive protests in Egypt, the country's president, Hosni Mubarak, announced that he would not be a candidate in the elections scheduled for September. However, protesters were not satisfied with his remarks and continued to call for his immediate departure
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February 1, 2011 |
At the dawn of the automobile era, electric cars outnumbered their gasoline powered counterparts. But that was short lived. Quickly the gasoline powered model-T stormed the automobile market, and electric cars soon took a backseat as manufacturers focused on the
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January 31, 2011 |
Violent unrest in Egypt continues as droves of protesters flooded the streets of the capital city Cairo, and the coastal city of Alexandria Friday, in an effort to oust President Hosni Mubarak. The unrest in the Arab world's most populous
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January 28, 2011 |
After a series of anti-government uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East, Yemen became the latest Arab country to be engulfed in protests. Thousands of people marched in the capital city of Sanaa, demanding the end of President Ali
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January 27, 2011 |
A vibrant poetry and arts scene had emerged from the rubble of Haiti's massive earthquake. Writers, singers and artists use their pens and voices to deal with their country's hardships and form bonds with each other. For 10 years, a
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January 26, 2011 |
After Lebanon's president appointed a Hezbollah-backed candidate, Najib Mikati, as prime minister, protests by angry Sunnis erupted throughout the country. Mikati, a billionaire businessman, won a majority of Parliament votes and defeated the popular Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Hariri and
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January 25, 2011 |
Russia was the target of terrorism on Monday afternoon as a suicide bomber blew himself up at Moscow's Domodedvo Airport, the country's busiest airport. The blast killed at least 35 an injured more than 170 in the airport's international arrivals
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January 24, 2011 |
School never ends for most students in South Korea. When they're done with their normal school day, most go to more private tutoring until late into the night. Vacation and weekend days are also filled with schooling, studying and even
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January 21, 2011 |
It was January 20, 1961, almost 50 years to the day, when President John F. Kennedy delivered one of the most famous and most quoted inaugural addresses in history. Standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, with his family,
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January 20, 2011 |
Often times the mere site of an eight legged arachnid--commonly known as a spider--evokes a not so pleasant feeling. But scientists are finding innovative ways to use the silk spiders spin to benefit humans. Who knew that spider silk has
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January 19, 2011 |
One of the top issues on the agenda when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington, D.C. this week will be the value of China's currency relative to the U.S. dollar. The U.S. maintains that China is purposely holding down the
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January 14, 2011 |
Twenty-five miles west of Haiti's bustling capital city, Port-au-Prince, resides the once quaint and quiet city of Leogane. Leogane was once heralded for its colonel architecture and cobblestone streets. However, all this changed last January as the city became the
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January 13, 2011 |
President Obama traveled to Tucson, Arizona Wednesday to help memorialize those who died in Saturday's shooting rampage, and to honor those who are still struggling with their wounds. He stayed above the fray of the partisan commentary that has been
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January 12, 2011 |
One year ago, the island nation of Haiti was shaken by a massive earthquake that collapsed most of its buildings and killed more than 200,000 people. Today, engineers and scientists are among those hoping to help prevent a similar catastrophe
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January 11, 2011 |
The tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona this past weekend has revived the debate on the power of words and the connections, if any, between political rhetoric and violent acts. Within hours of Saturday's attack, speculations about what prompted a 22
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January 10, 2011 |
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and several of her constituents were gunned down at a meet-and-greet event being held at a Tucson, Arizona supermarket. Six people died and Rep. Giffords is in critical condition at an Arizona hospital after being shot
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January 7, 2011 |
Five months after massive floods in Pakistan killed and displaced hundreds of thousands some parts of the country remain underwater. Sindh Province, located in Pakistan's southern region, still consists of areas that are inundated with 10 feet of water. Because
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January 6, 2011 |
Nearly one year to the day since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake forever changed the lives of Haitians; the country continues to suffer from its lasting effects. In that time, writer and poet Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti on four
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January 6, 2011 |
What is constant multi-tasking doing to teens' brains? That's the question NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien set out to answer as he interviewed teens and neuroscience experts around the country. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are currently studying
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January 5, 2011 |
Recent surveys, one from the National Association of Colleges and Employers and the other from Michigan State University, project double digit growth in employer hiring of recent college grads for 2011. This comes as positive news for students graduating this
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January 4, 2011 |
All eyes are on the East African nation of Sudan as it prepares to cast a vote that could turn its southern and northern regions into two separate countries. But, regardless of the vote's outcome, Sudan faces many health care
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January 3, 2011 |
Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico are trying to determine the recent BP oil spill's impact on the area's ecosystem by testing an organism that's very low on the food chain: fish larvae. By testing menhaden, a type of fish
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December 30, 2010 |
As some states press pause on implementation of the new health care reform, California is pressing fast forward. And it's doing so in bipartisan fashion. The state's Democratically controlled legislature has teamed with outgoing Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to implement
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December 29, 2010 |
After the November mid-term elections, Republicans won sweeping victories across the country. In Wisconsin, Republicans took the governorship, the state Legislature, two U.S. congressional seats and a U.S. Senate seat away from Democrats. Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from
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December 28, 2010 |
George Frideric Handel, an 18th century composer, who wrote the timeless holiday classic "The Messiah" and established a foundation for a new business approach to opera. Not only was Handel a musical genius but he was also an entrepreneur and
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December 27, 2010 |
In a predominately Muslim country, Christians in Iraq have been the targets of escalating violence. In October, a prominent Catholic church in Baghdad was attacked by militants and after an hours-long siege, 51 worshipers were killed, including at least eight
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December 24, 2010 |
In the past decade, graduation rates in New York rose 10 percent. School reform in New York City, led by schools chancellor Joel Klein, is seen as a model for other urban areas facing high dropout rates and dangerous schools.
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December 23, 2010 |
Denver's Road Home project was founded in 2005 with a goal of ending homelessness in 10 years. Five years into their efforts, Amber Callender, the executive director, says the program is on track to meet their goals. One of the
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December 21, 2010 |
Roughly 90 miles from the tip of Florida resides the communist Caribbean country of Cuba. An island in more ways than one, Cuba has tried to remain isolated from the modern changes that have occurred throughout the rest of the
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December 20, 2010 |
As U.S. troops fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, certain parts of neighboring Pakistan provide safe havens for the Taliban. U.S. officials have been trying to get the Pakistani military to react to those havens and shut them down, but so
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December 17, 2010 |
The fate of a nuclear arms treaty that President Obama signed with Russia, called the New START treaty, lies in the hands of the U.S. Senate. However, there are many questions about whether the Senate will choose to accept, or
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December 16, 2010 |
It was a pop-culture, "American Idol" style competition, but for gospel performances. On an evening early last month 11,000 fans filled the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. to watch 14 choirs from churches nationwide compete in the 3rd annual "How
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December 15, 2010 |
Andrew Young, a renowned civil rights leader, has worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., served as the mayor of Atlanta and been an ambassador to the United Nations in his long career. He also has another important relationship that
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December 14, 2010 |
A barrage of recent attacks by hackers has cast a spotlight on the vulnerability of the Internet and its millions of websites and users. In the days following the release of highly classified government documents by the whistle-blower Web site
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December 13, 2010 |
Rap as poetry - that's the subject of a new anthology edited by two students of English literature at Yale University who believe rap music should be recognized as a poetic art form. Although rap lyrics often include profanity and
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December 10, 2010 |
In addition to its recovery from a devastating earthquake and a cholera epidemic, the Caribbean island nation of Haiti is struggling with another challenge: protests that erupted after a presidential vote. Supporters of candidate Michel Martelly, who is also a
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December 9, 2010 |
President Obama is stepping up pressure on lawmakers to pass a tax cut deal he struck with Republicans that would extend tax cuts for all Americans and renew benefits for those who have been unemployed for a long time. Originally,
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December 8, 2010 |
Arne Duncan, the current U.S. Secretary of Education, is focused on making America's schools competitive in a world where many countries' children outpace learners in the U.S. As the leader of the U.S. education system at the federal level, Duncan's
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December 7, 2010 |
In 2008, voters passed a ballot measure called Proposition 8, banning gay marriage, but, in August of this year, a federal district judge struck down the measure, ruling that it was unconstitutional to treat same-sex couples differently. That ruling was
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December 6, 2010 |
Two years after receiving a B.A. in anthropology from Georgia State University, David Cook now washes trash cans. It's part-time work for $9 an hour--not ideal for the recent graduate. "I don't want to seem ungrateful. I just feel like
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December 3, 2010 |
Seventeen miles north of Yogyakarta, a city in Indonesia, looms a killer the locals call the "mountain of fire." Peaking at 9,738 feet in elevation, the volcano known as Mount Merapi has recently wreaked havoc on the Southeast Asian country.
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December 2, 2010 |
With the U.S. unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, Austin Polytechnical Academy is using an unconventional curriculum to help students get high paying jobs after graduation. The Chicago high school teaches the basics, but also requires students to take classes
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December 1, 2010 |
Scientists in Colorado have unearthed a rare find: fossils dating all the way back to the Ice Age, between 45,000 and 125,000 years ago. Construction workers were excavating a hillside to make a ski area when they discovered hundreds of
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November 30, 2010 |
Another document release by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing government secrets, has caused a stir in the diplomatic community. The organization released diplomatic papers and cables that expose internal conflict and debate on the international stage. Many of the
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November 29, 2010 |
Like many of its neighbors, the East African country of Mozamique has been plagued by high rates of HIV/AIDS infection: one out of every eight adults is infected with the disease. As a result, many children face life without one
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November 26, 2010 |
Director Judd Apatow is known for his comedic movies like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up" and "Superbad." But his knack for making audiences laugh comes from a lifetime of studying what's funny and working hard to understand it. Apatow adds
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November 24, 2010 |
Tensions between North Korea and South Korea came to a head once again on Tuesday as the two nations exchanged deadly rounds of artillery fire. The shooting lasted for about an hour, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians
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November 23, 2010 |
Pristine beaches and rampant poverty are two characteristics that accurately describe Mozambique. The country, located in southeastern Africa, boasts 1,400 miles of Indian Ocean coastline, but Mozambique, and its 23 million people, is still trying to find a place in
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November 22, 2010 |
Missile defense was the first topic of discussion at the high-profile meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Delegates decided to boost funding for a massive system that would intercept threatening missiles in midair over the U.S. and
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November 19, 2010 |
Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski has made history by winning an election without being on the Alaska ballot: voters had to write her name in a blank space under the official Republican and Democratic candidates. The last write-in Senate winner was
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November 18, 2010 |
In an effort to push for the ratification of a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Capitol Hill to urge the lame-duck Congress to vote on the measure immediately. START 1 (Strategic Arms
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November 17, 2010 |
In the African country of Uganda, a rebel army called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) recruited children to commit brutal acts of violence against their own families and other Ugandan villagers. Now, former child soldiers are speaking out and struggling
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November 16, 2010 |
When it comes to health care reform in the United States, Massachusetts can be considered a trendsetter. In 2006 the state became the first in the nation to pass comprehensive health care reform that required everyone to buy health insurance.
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November 15, 2010 |
The G20 Summit, a meeting of the world's twenty largest economies held in South Korea, ended on Friday with what many analysts viewed as a lack of progress on specific policy issues. But, in his remarks at the end of
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November 12, 2010 |
This week, a meeting of the world's 20 largest economies, called the G20, is taking place in South Korea. One of the major conflicts being addressed at the meeting involves the value of the world's currencies, specifically China's. Many countries
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November 11, 2010 |
Ten months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake wrecked havoc on the impoverished country of Haiti, efforts to rebuild its infrastructure are underway. But as expected, the process is slow as hundreds of thousands are still homeless and residing in makeshift
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November 10, 2010 |
Medicins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, is an organization that sends medical professionals into war and disaster zones to provide victims with medical attention. Currently, the group has a major operation underway in Pakistan, where thousands of people have
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November 9, 2010 |
The first leg of President Obama's 10-day tour of Asia began with a three day visit to India. Fresh off a midterm election in which President Obama's party suffered expansive losses in the House and Senate, his administration has branded
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November 5, 2010 |
Scouring Colombia for votes in its 2002 presidential election, French-Colombian politician and Colombian Senator Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by rebel-guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym FARC). During her captivity--which lasted six and a
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November 4, 2010 |
The results are in for most of the midterm election contests around the country, with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives and making major gains in the Senate. The shakeup was the largest party turnover in 70 years
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November 3, 2010 |
A Supreme Court case over whether minors should be able to access violent video games in California had the justices debating the definition of violence and the boundaries of the First Amendment. The lawyer for the state of California, who
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November 2, 2010 |
In the last day of campaigning before the midterm elections on Nov. 2, Democrats staged a major get-out-the-vote effort while Republicans prepared for the possibility that they could win the majority in the House of Representatives. President Obama, First Lady
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November 1, 2010 |
In a Boston warehouse scientists have reached the final stages of creating a new breed of robot. BigDog is not your cute Hollywood R2-D2 kind of robot or a member of the household like Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons.
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October 29, 2010 |
At the age of 5 it was the PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood that spawned the career of jazz phenomenon Esperanza Spalding. "I saw a program with Yo-Yo Ma," reveals Spalding before a performance at the historic Lincoln Theatre in
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October 28, 2010 |
In France, Parliament voted yesterday to pass a controversial reform of the country's retirement laws. Previously, French people could retire at 60 and begin receiving full pensions, or monthly stipends from the government, at age 65. Now, however, Parliament has
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October 27, 2010 |
Breast cancer is one of the most common diseases in the U.S. and has gotten a lot of attention from media and nonprofit organizations who want to help women catch the disease early and ultimately find a cure. But, in
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October 26, 2010 |
Just months after it released a batch of internal documents about American troop actions in the Afghan war, the website WikiLeaks has publicized more controversial documents, this time about the war in Iraq. The 400,000 documents reveal that Iraqi police
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October 25, 2010 |
Pakistan and the U.S. have long been uneasy partners in the battle against global terrorism. The man behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, is thought to be hiding in the mountains near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and aid to
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October 22, 2010 |
On Tuesday, the U.S. military announced it had overturned the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that barred gays and lesbians from openly serving in the U.S. armed forces. But, by the next day, openly gay soldiers were back in
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October 21, 2010 |
As the nation focuses on the highly anticipated national midterm elections, heated races are underway at the state level as well. The outcomes of these races will in turn impact the makeup of future U.S. Congresses. With numbers from the
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October 20, 2010 |
Protests throughout France continue to grow as roughly 1 million people are in an uproar over a proposed hike in the country's retirement age. As a part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform plan the retirement age in France would
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October 19, 2010 |
The East African nation of Sudan has long experienced conflict between its mainly Christian northern region and its mainly Muslim southern one. Now, South Sudan is preparing for a vote on whether to break away from the North and become
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October 18, 2010 |
After the world heard about a series of mass rapes that took place in the Congo just a few miles from where United Nations forces were supposed to be keeping the peace, the U.N. launched an investigation into the incident
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October 15, 2010 |
Indiana University's 40,000 students form a powerful voting bloc that can swing the outcome of elections in Indiana's ninth Congressional district one way or another. In 2008, student votes helped put President Obama in the White House and contributed to
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October 14, 2010 |
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has launched iCivics, a new interactive program for students nationwide. The website is offered free of charge to schools and features a series of games geared toward teaching students how the U.S. government
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October 13, 2010 |
The rescue of 33 miners from the depths of a copper mine in Chile is underway, and the world is watching as each of them takes a half-mile trip up from the cave that's been their home for 69 days.
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October 12, 2010 |
In America religion today is as diverse as it's ever been. After six years of extensive research, 3,000 interviews and numerous visits to congregations, Harvard University public policy professor and author Robert Putnam has released a new book titled "American
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October 11, 2010 |
When most people think of classical music, they think of pieces written by male composers who lived centuries ago like Beethoven, Bach and Brahms. But, today, compositions by a young, female composer are getting a lot of attention, including a
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October 8, 2010 |
Girls living in the mountainous region of Pakistan called the Swat Valley face many barriers to going to school. Nine out of ten women cannot read or write, putting them at a clear disadvantage to their male counterparts. First the
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October 7, 2010 |
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing a case that pits one family's right to privacy against another's freedom of speech. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, which is led by Rev. Fred Phelps and mostly consists
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October 6, 2010 |
An issue that's garnered little attention in the Middle East peace negotiations is the water crisis. Israel and Palestine reside in rocky terrains that are often times drought stricken, making access to fresh water a growing disparity gap between the
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October 5, 2010 |
Homeless kids face many challenges, including where to go to school when their family continues to move from place to place. One school in Seattle is trying to address that problem by catering specifically to homeless students and helping them
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October 4, 2010 |
The suicide of a Rutgers University student after his roommate broadcast a video on the Internet has prompted a discussion over cyber-bullying and privacy issues. Fellow classmates held candle light vigils and continue to mourn the loss of Tyler Clementi,
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October 1, 2010 |
In Pittsburgh there's a narrow, very unique, city block that writers from all over the world call home. City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is part of an organization with branches in Europe that provides a safe haven for writers to freely practice
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September 30, 2010 |
President Obama has been back on the campaign trail lately, working to convince the Democrats and progressives who put him in the White House to turn out and vote for Democratic candidates in the November midterm elections. He and Vice
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September 29, 2010 |
In the United States 40 percent of black and Latino students who begin at four-year colleges and universities will graduate. A startling statistic? Yes. But it's one that New York's Stony Brook University is seeking to combat through a state
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September 28, 2010 |
Leaders in France have drawn criticism from other European countries and the European Union (EU) for their decision to send thousands of ethnic Roma, commonly known as Gypsies, back to Romania and other Eastern European countries. The Roma have historically
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September 27, 2010 |
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook six years ago from his college dorm room at Harvard University. Since its inception 500 million people have joined the social networking site, spending a whapping 700 billion combined minutes a month clicking through profiles, uploading
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September 24, 2010 |
Between 1915 and 1970, 6 million African Americans left their homes in the American South for better opportunities in Northern states. Author Isabel Wilkerson, whose parents were part of this "great migration," tracked down African-Americans who moved northward and talked
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September 23, 2010 |
Now that the well that spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months has been capped, researchers and Gulf coast residents are looking at the fallout for the region's delicate wetlands. The oil has killed off many patches of
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September 22, 2010 |
Paying teachers based on their performance has caught on nationwide in the last year. And it's due in large part to President Obama's $4.3 billion "Race to the Top" education initiative that rewards states with large grants if they comply
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September 21, 2010 |
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who ran alongside Senator John McCain as a vice presidential candidate in 2008, is back on the campaign trail. This time, though, she's traveling the country campaigning for and endorsing other candidates who
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September 20, 2010 |
It's seldom to have the opportunity to witness first-hand what occurs on a daily basis with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The news media reports it everyday, but to visually experience the deadly firefights between infantry troops and the Taliban insurgents
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September 17, 2010 |
Chicago native and jazz czar Herbie Hancock made his name in the music industry during the 1960s as a leading member of Mile Davis' Second Great Quintet. A stellar pianist, Hancock's career is filled with interchangeable attributes that rotate with
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September 16, 2010 |
As a result of the massive flooding that hit Pakistan last month, relief workers are pouring into the country to provide victims with basic necessities like food, clean water and shelter. But, most are not from an international aid group
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September 15, 2010 |
Instead of buying its ingredients from European countries, a small factory in Israel that makes condiments and deli spreads has chosen to purchase its tomatoes, olives, eggplant and basil from Palestinian villages as a show of peace. The company, called
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September 15, 2010 |
Writers get inspiration from all sorts of places, and for poet Austin Kleon, that inspiration came from his daily newspaper. Using only a black marker, Kleon creates poems by blacking out all but the words from the newspaper he wants
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September 13, 2010 |
At the military base Fort Hood in Texas, U.S. soldiers return home daily from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some soldiers return with physical wounds from combat, while others face severe mental illnesses as a result of the perils
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September 10, 2010 |
The Purple Heart is a military award given to soldiers injured in the line of duty. It has been awarded since the 1930s and is considered one of the U.S. military's greatest honors. But, many soldiers who have returned from
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September 9, 2010 |
For the first time in human history, more of the world's people live in cities than in rural areas. This trend has led to the growth of "megacities" - urban areas with populations of 15 million or more. As the
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September 8, 2010 |
A Florida pastor and his congregation have announced plans to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, on the anniversary of 9/11. Their plan has sparked outrage and fear around the world, since terrorists may view the burning
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September 7, 2010 |
The current recession has severely undercut the bargaining power of labor unions and workers' abilities to strike and gain concessions from company leadership. In this video, Economics Correspondent Paul Solman visits Rochester, New York, where 300 workers at the Mott's
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September 3, 2010 |
Recent Supreme Court rulings about the right to carry guns in Washington, D.C. and Chicago are reverberating around the country, and in California, it's still unclear what effects the rulings will have. The Supreme Court left many questions about specific
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September 2, 2010 |
In Iraq, American military leaders marked the end of the combat mission with a ceremony to mark a change of command for the 50,000 American troops still in the country. Vice President Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were present
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September 1, 2010 |
In most school districts around the country, teachers have what's called "tenure" - a level of job security based on how long they've been teaching. But Michelle Rhee, Washington, D.C.'s controversial schools chancellor, changed all that when she introduced a
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August 31, 2010 |
August 31 is the deadline that President Obama set for all combat troops to leave Iraq. As a result, Iraqi military forces are increasingly forced to fend for themselves in protecting their country and their people. The NewsHour's Margaret Warner
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August 30, 2010 |
In the Middle Eastern country of Yemen, it's not unusual to see men sitting in circles, talking about family affairs and politics, enjoying each others' company. An important part of this ritual is chewing qat (also spelled khat), a leaf
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August 27, 2010 |
Negotiating a deal is not a talent that you either have or don't have. It is a skill that can be learned, according to Robert Mnookin of Harvard Law School. He believes that the art of properly negotiating a difficult
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August 26, 2010 |
An ultra-light, energy-saving vehicle that gets 100 miles per gallon is not just a dream - it's reality for a team of engineers working to win the Progressive Automotive X-prize competition. The X-prize, a $5 million cash prize designed to
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August 25, 2010 |
The debate over whether a proposed community center and mosque should be built two blocks from Ground Zero in New York has created a buzz nationwide about America's relationship with Islam. President Obama has even weighed in on the issue,
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August 24, 2010 |
Five years after Hurricane Katrina reduced much of the city of New Orleans to rubble and drove thousands of people from their homes, photojournalist Mario Tama has put all the photos he took of the storm and its aftermath into
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August 23, 2010 |
Direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders are set to commence in Washington next month after almost two years. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to sit down and
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August 20, 2010 |
The war in Iraq, which began in March of 2003, is coming to a symbolic end as the last of 95,000 U.S. combat troops exit the country and head home. But, not all U.S. soldiers will leave Iraq; about 50,000
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August 19, 2010 |
Women in remote villages of Ethiopia must make tough decisions on a daily basis in regard to the health of their families. Should they fetch nearby rain water that is in puddles and often times contaminated, making their children ill;
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August 18, 2010 |
When the U.S. housing market took a turn for the worse in 2008, many homeowners who still owed the bank money on their homes suddenly found that they owed more than their home was actually worth. That phenomenon, dubbed "being
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August 17, 2010 |
Record flooding in Pakistan has killed thousands and affected nearly 20 million of its residents. Two weeks ago, monsoon rains created massive floods that began in the country's mountainous region in the northwest. Since then, the floods have continued to
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August 16, 2010 |
On August 16, many shrimping grounds in the Gulf of Mexico re-opened for harvesting as the Gulf shrimping season began. But, many shrimpers and fishermen are still concerned that their catch might not be safe to eat, since they fear
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August 13, 2010 |
The the Mediterranean country of Greece is placing a serious emphasis on foreign investors--especially from China. In this video, NewHour economics correspondent, Paul Solman, reports on the intricate details of the economic bond that the two countries have forged. For
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August 12, 2010 |
Once all the oil from the Gulf spill has been skimmed, mopped and soaked up, workers are left with one question: where to put it all? As The NewsHour's Tom Bearden reports, even though oil cleanup is monitored extensively by
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August 11, 2010 |
In New York City, a debate is underway about whether an Islamic group should be allowed to build a mosque, or Muslim house of worship, near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Those supporting the mosque's construction say they
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August 10, 2010 |
Ten international aid workers were gunned down in a rugged Northeast corner of Afghanistan as they returned home from taking medical supplies to remote villages. The International Assistance Mission, a Christian charity, said the group specifically picked a route home
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August 9, 2010 |
With childhood obesity at an all time high in the United States, two New York culinary chefs are touring the country and giving classes to lunch room attendants who prepare meals in public schools. Kate Adamick and Andrea Martin are
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August 6, 2010 |
Many in the Gulf Coast believe that when the cameras leave, so to will the government and BP's clean up efforts. The skepticism amongst the region's residents is steadfast, as they've had to deal with the lasting effects of past
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August 5, 2010 |
Legal battles over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry in California have been waged for a decade. The latest twist came yesterday, when a California judge overturned Proposition 8, a ballot measure passed in 2008 saying that marriage
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August 4, 2010 |
The state of Arizona recently enacted a controversial new immigration law that is the toughest in the nation and has sparked protests around the country. Many immigrants who have come to the U.S. from other countries feel threatened and afraid
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August 4, 2010 |
A demographic that's received little attention in the nationwide immigration debate has been the children. Many have been brought to the United States as their families crossed borders illegally in search of better livelihoods. According to research, nearly 5.5 million
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August 3, 2010 |
Jean-Michel Cousteau, the son of famous oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau, worked alongside his father for decades and later followed in his footsteps by becoming an environmentalist and filmmaker about ocean life. Now, the younger Cousteau has written a retrospective book about
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August 2, 2010 |
Last week, Arizona's controversial immigration bill--SB 1070--went into effect. However, a last second ruling by a federal judge blocked the most controversial aspects of law, which would have permitted law enforcement to check a person's immigration status and required all
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July 30, 2010 |
Simple touch is lacking in a medical field overrun with technology, asserts Stanford Medical School professor and author Abraham Verghese. It's a basic practice lost in the ever evolving field. Often physicians in the West rely heavily on technology like
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July 29, 2010 |
Twenty years ago, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. As a result, most of the nation's buildings and public transportation are now accessible to the handicapped. But, getting there wasn't easy, as ADA
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July 28, 2010 |
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Philip Levine didn't always make a living writing verse; as a young man, he worked in Detroit's then-booming auto factories. Today, he writes about life in Detroit during his boyhood, and about what it means to work.
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July 27, 2010 |
The end of August will mark New Orleans fifth anniversary since Hurricane Katrina. In the city's reconstruction efforts immediately following the storm, the state of Louisiana seized control of most New Orleans public schools and hired Paul Vallas as its
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July 26, 2010 |
Debates have been raging over whether using chemical dispersants to clean up the Gulf oil spill was a good idea. Some scientists and government officials insist using the dispersants is better than using nothing, while others argue the chemicals do
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July 23, 2010 |
As the nations worst environmental disaster in history nears the 100 day mark, concerns have arisen about the methods taken to clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Buras, Louisiana about
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July 22, 2010 |
Sometimes even the news industry reports incomplete information. When the conservative Web site BigGovernment.com posted a video of U.S. Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod at an NAACP event in March 2010, she described working for a farm assistance group
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July 21, 2010 |
The European country of Greece has faced serious debt problems recently because it borrowed too much money during prosperous economic times and is now having trouble paying it back. Because Greece is part of the European Union (EU), other EU
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July 20, 2010 |
Senate Republicans and Democrats are locked in a fierce battle over whether to, once again, pass a bill to extend jobless benefits to millions of out-of-work Americans. Since the economic downturn in 2008, a record number of Americans have relied
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July 19, 2010 |
Private equity, or money invested in companies that are not part of the stock exchange, is a popular way for big investment firms to make money. Private equity firms are designed to take investors' money, invest it in a company,
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July 16, 2010 |
Eighty-five days, 16 hours, 25 minutes. That's how long oil had been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, until yesterday afternoon when it finally stopped. After nearly 184 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf, BP managed to stave
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July 15, 2010 |
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in August of 2005, citizens became desperate for help and police officers struggled to keep order in the city. Many questions have since arisen about how some members of the
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July 14, 2010 |
Martin Fisher had a vision ten years ago when he co-founded KickStart International, a Northern California nonprofit that develops water pumps for impoverished countries lacking sufficient water supplies. After working on numerous large-scale water projects that eventually failed, Fisher concluded
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July 13, 2010 |
United Nations workers in Haiti say that the people left homeless by the quake have been remarkably calm and patient with their government, even though many are understandably frustrated with how slowly aid has come to them. Haiti's Prime Minister,
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July 12, 2010 |
Everyday nearly 100,000 South Africans scour the country's streets in search of work. With a numbing jobless rate of 27 percent, the current state of South Africa's economy mirrors that of the U.S. economy during the Great Depression. The 2010
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July 9, 2010 |
As oil continues to infiltrate the delicate marshlands along the Gulf coast, researchers from the University of Alabama are working to find out whether tiny microbes that eat oil could be used in the cleanup effort. Unlike beaches, which can
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July 8, 2010 |
Mark Twain, one of America's greatest writers and humorists, died 100 years ago at the age of 75. Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, had ordered that his autobiography not be published until a century after he died. Now,
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July 7, 2010 |
Chuck Close is a world-renowned artist who paints wall-sized faces and portraits. While much of his work is filled with vibrant colors, his life has had many darker moments. Growing up in a working-class community in rural Washington State, he
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July 6, 2010 |
Johannesburg is one of South Africa's largest cities but less than 1 percent of the population has access to land phone lines or Internet service. South Africans are forced to use prepaid cell phones with rates often triple what Americans
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July 2, 2010 |
The European country of Greece has been beset by financial worries recently; In recent years it managed government finances poorly and currently owes hundreds of billions of dollars to creditors around the world. When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loaned
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July 1, 2010 |
The city of Juarez, Mexico and other towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have been ravaged by violence between feuding drug cartels over the last few years. Poet Benjamin Saenz, who calls the U.S. side of the Juarez-El Paso border home,
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June 29, 2010 |
Cleveland, Ohio, was once a major port city on Lake Erie. Steel mills, car plants and countless manufacturers once clogged the mouth of the Cuyahoga River with their goods, but these days the city is in a semi-depressed economic state.
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June 28, 2010 |
As confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan commence, many eyes will be on the political showdown before the Senate Judiciary Committee. President Barack Obama nominated the former dean of Harvard Law School and current Solicitor General to the
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June 24, 2010 |
As the oil spill from the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil rig continues to spread across the Gulf of Mexico, many fishermen who find themselves out of work are being paid to help with the cleanup effort. But, new concerns are
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June 23, 2010 |
The Pakistani-born American who left an SUV packed with crude explosives in the heart of Times Square pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom for attempting to carry out the attack. Faisal Shahzad told the judge that, unless the U.S.
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June 21, 2010 |
The central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is still assessing the damage after violence erupted a week ago. Ethnic tensions have been high since angry protesters stormed the capital city, Bishkek in April. An estimated 80 people were killed and 1000
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June 18, 2010 |
Tap dance icon Maurice Hines has already had a full career, dancing alongside his brother, Gregory, on the stage and in films for decades. Now, he has planned, choreographed and taken a starring role in a revival of "Sophisticated Ladies,"
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June 17, 2010 |
Four years ago NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman sat down with two economists--Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb--to discuss the state of the economy. The two revealed pessimistic views on the future of the economy and the housing markets. After their
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June 16, 2010 |
The periodic table lists chemical elements in order of the number of protons in their nucleus. Elements on the bottom row--those that have protons numbering in the 60s and 90s--are called rare earth minerals, and they are what make your
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June 16, 2010 |
As the grandson of slaves, Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. When segregation policies denied Marshall admission to the University of Maryland Law School he decided to attend Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C. instead.
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June 11, 2010 |
When journalist and author Sebastian Junger embedded himself with a small group of soldiers in an isolated outpost called Restrepo in the Afghan mountains, he quickly realized that he couldn't remain impartial. Instead, he bonded with the men in the
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June 10, 2010 |
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has re-created one of the main inspirations behind poet Emily Dickinson's work: her garden. Through careful research into Dickinson's personal history and poetry, scholars and gardeners have duplicated what they believe her
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June 8, 2010 |
On the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, millions of people live in tightly packed, unsanitary slums with little hope of finding better and safer housing. But, some new microfinancing programs are changing that by allowing former slum residents to move into
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June 7, 2010 |
After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama announced that all new U.S. offshore oil drilling ventures would stop until the accident had been investigated. Many residents along the Louisiana
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June 4, 2010 |
In many areas around the country, the only places to get food are often fast food restaurants or small convenience stores that don't sell fresh produce. Places like this, known as "food deserts" because of the lack of places to
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June 3, 2010 |
China is currently playing host to the 2010 World Expo - a spectacle made up of elaborate pavilions designed by countries around the world. Analysts say the Expo represents a turning point for China and its growing middle class. Previously,
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June 2, 2010 |
Jean-Michel Cousteau, ocean explorer and son of the famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, recently dove down into the oil-filled Gulf waters to take a look at what was going on beneath the surface. What he and his team saw made him
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June 1, 2010 |
Anti-smoking advocates have a new frontier to conquer: China. No country on earth has more smokers; in fact, with 350 million smokers, China has more smokers than the U.S. has people. Cigarettes are part of the culture in China and
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May 28, 2010 |
The Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia is preparing for a verdict in a torture trial whose defendant is accused of committing mass genocide three decades ago. As part of the Khmer Rouge ruling regime, a man known as Comrade Duch
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May 27, 2010 |
Photojournalist Gerald Herbert has documented the entire course of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf, from the rig explosion to the slick's impact on fishermen and wildlife. Herbert, a Louisiana native, says the oil's impact on Southern Louisiana is
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May 26, 2010 |
In her latest novel, "The Island Beneath the Sea," writer Isabel Allende explores the history behind two places that have dominated the news recently: Haiti and New Orleans. While she did not know that earthquakes and oil spills would eventually
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May 25, 2010 |
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled on a case involving the National Football League and whether the league could be considered one large business or several smaller, separate team companies. The clothing manufacturing company American Needle sued the NFL and
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May 24, 2010 |
In the final months of World War Two in the Pacific, the United States and Japan fought a fierce battle over the island of Okinawa, 400 miles south of mainland Japan. The American Army and Marines finally captured the island,
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May 21, 2010 |
Mexican president Felipe Calderon visited the United States this week to discuss issues important to the two nations with President Barack Obama and Congress. In an address to Congress, Calderon said he does not support the recently passed immigration law
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May 20, 2010 |
The city of Juarez, Mexico has been ravaged by drug war violence, with more than 5,000 homicides in the city of 1.3 million since January 2008. Responding to the violence has been a huge task for paramedics, who often tend
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May 19, 2010 |
Years of unchecked deforestation and development have left much of Haiti's soil barren and stripped of essential nutrients for growing food. Most Haitians rely on outside charities and other non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, for food handouts. Twenty percent of Haiti's
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May 18, 2010 |
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided a case involving a teenager who was sentenced to life in prison for a non-homicide offense. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that a life sentence for a juvenile offender who has not
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May 17, 2010 |
Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter has served as his one of his state's two U.S. senators for nearly 30 years, representing the Republican Party for most of that time. But last year, facing a formidable challenge in the Republican primary, the politically
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May 14, 2010 |
Throughout America's history, there has been a push and pull between bankers who wanted to centralize power and wealth, and populist presidents such as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt who wanted to break the financial industry down to
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May 13, 2010 |
One name, two starkly different lives - that's the real-life scenario at the heart of author Wes Moore's new book, which explores how his life diverged from that of another boy with the same name who grew up in the
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May 12, 2010 |
A new era in British politics was launched as Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned and ceded his office to David Cameron, the leader of the British Conservative Party. Brown's resignation ends his Labor Party's 13-year rule and paves the way
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May 11, 2010 |
President Obama has nominated Elena Kagan, the current U.S. Solicitor General, to be the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice John Paul Stevens retires this summer. As Solicitor General, Kagan is currently responsible for arguing cases before
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May 10, 2010 |
On the night of April 20, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, causing a massive oil leak that continues to flow into Gulf waters. The explosion also profoundly affected the lives of 127 workers aboard
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May 7, 2010 |
Riots continue in Greece in response to the country's massive debt crisis, which is also spreading uncertainty and fear to world financial markets. Greece, which is in danger of going bankrupt, has asked Germany and France for loans to pay
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May 6, 2010 |
Three candidates are vying for the role of Prime Minister, Great Britain's equivalent of America's President, in the country's general election taking place Thursday. Members of the candidates' political parties are also competing for seats in Parliament, Britain's main legislative
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May 5, 2010 |
A suspect has been arrested in last Saturday's failed Times Square bomb plot as he was attempting to leave the country on a plane bound for the Middle East. Since his arrest, Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old American citizen born in
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May 4, 2010 |
Law enforcement officials are working around the clock to track down suspects in Saturday's attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says officials have some promising leads but did not share many more
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May 3, 2010 |
As the business world becomes more and more complex, perhaps one way to avoid future "Too Big to Fail" catastrophes is to encourage companies to stay small and nimble. Twenty years ago Paul Solman visited a small company called Springfield
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April 29, 2010 |
"The Things They Carried," a work of fiction about the experience of a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War, is one of the rare works of recent literature that has helped define Vietnam and the experience of war. Marking
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April 28, 2010 |
Representatives from the bank Goldman Sachs defended their actions against a caustic Senate panel on Capitol Hill yesterday. Many on the panel alleged that the bank plotted multiple strategies to profit from deliberately bad investments without telling investors about those
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April 27, 2010 |
After a long and successful musical career singing both solo and as part of the band 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant has turned to classical poetry as the inspiration for her newest album, titled "Leave Your Sleep." While the project was
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April 26, 2010 |
Political cartoonist Mark Fiore recently took home the coveted Pulitzer Prize for his animated work. The Pulitzer for political cartooning is given every year, but Fiore's award is unique because since 2001 all of his animation has been done online
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April 23, 2010 |
The African country of Ethiopia has often been associated with chronic famine, and many Ethiopians still depend on food aid to survive. But, more and more foreign investors are discovering that Ethiopia has abundant land rich for farming. Many commercial
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April 22, 2010 |
The F-35 fighter jet, a brand new warplane currently in production, was designed to save the military money by being able to do more for less. But, production costs have skyrocketed from $59 million to as much as $112 million
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April 21, 2010 |
Civil rights activist Dorothy Height passed away on April 20 at the age of 98. During her long and storied career, Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal from
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April 20, 2010 |
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb slammed into Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Yesterday, survivors, friends and family members of those killed in the blast gathered at the site to mark the anniversary of
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April 19, 2010 |
Classical thinking says that rewarding individuals with high pay will bring about the highest performance and buy the greatest talent; but new science says that may be outmoded thinking. Some social scientists say motivating people with excessive salaries may have
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April 16, 2010 |
While drinkable running water and indoor toilets are standard in the United States, some of the world's poorest still live without basic sanitation. NewsHour Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports that in slums outside of Nairobi, Kenya, people for generations
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April 15, 2010 |
The head of the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, was grilled by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday over his approach to trying terror suspects and closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Republicans pressed the Attorney
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April 14, 2010 |
Often viewed as a microcosm of greater America, Florida is home to people of diverse ages, cultural backgrounds and professions who are drawn to the Sunshine State for its casual way of living. Many Floridians have also been keeping tabs
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April 13, 2010 |
At the largest gathering of world leaders ever held in Washington, D.C., representatives from 47 countries met to discuss methods for controlling nuclear material. Top issues included how to keep that material from falling into the hands of terrorists and
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April 12, 2010 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has announced he will retire, leaving President Obama with the task of appointing a second justice to the High Court. During his 35 years as a Supreme Court Justice, Stevens has been the
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April 9, 2010 |
Southern Sudan is the last holdout in a decades-long campaign to eradicate guinea worm, a painful and crippling parasite. The guinea worm grows up to three feet in length and lives just below the skin, often crippling its human host.
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April 8, 2010 |
Public schools in New Orleans, Louisiana and Washington, D.C., which have struggled historically, are being tracked closely by education experts for signs of improvement. In New Orleans, many students who are significantly behind their peers academically or who have gotten
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April 7, 2010 |
A campaign has been gaining momentum around the country to encourage consumers to move their money from banks deemed "too big to fail" into smaller, community institutions. States and cities are considering legislation to move their dollars into smaller, local
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April 6, 2010 |
As Pope Benedict XVI led thousands of Catholics in Easter celebrations on Sunday, questions swirled about whether he would address the priest sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the church in recent months. Numerous cases have surfaced related to sex
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April 5, 2010 |
In an economic climate when more people are out of work than at any time since World War II, a record number of workers are also relying on unemployment insurance to see them through the recession. But, many states' ability
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April 2, 2010 |
When poet David Mason wanted to reconnect with his roots in Colorado, he chose to write about one of the state's most significant labor movements that ended in tragedy. In 1913, coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado went
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March 31, 2010 |
Peru has not always been associated with robust economic growth. But, thanks to demand from China for Peruvian raw materials, the mountainous South American country now has one of the region's strongest performing economies. Even when the world was in
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March 30, 2010 |
New media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are making their way into an unexpected place: the White House. The Obama administration and its political operation at the Democratic National Committee have taken social media to a new level of
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March 29, 2010 |
President Obama's new education funding initiative, known as Race to the Top, is a welcome opportunity for many schools struggling to make ends meet. But, some teachers' unions are urging their members to walk away from the funds because accepting
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March 26, 2010 |
The foreclosure crisis, which has cost millions of people their homes and added to the country's economic hardships, is still largely unresolved, much to lawmakers' frustration. Yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met to discuss what more
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March 25, 2010 |
The Middle-Eastern country of Yemen is at the front lines of the fight against al-Qaida terrorists. However, the Yemeni government currently lacks the resources to adequately fight jihadist members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. After a Yemeni
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March 24, 2010 |
In a move protesting the Chinese government's Internet censorship, Google has moved its search engine for Chinese Web surfers offshore. Internet users who typed in the search engine's address are being redirected to one based in Hong Kong, where the
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March 23, 2010 |
The recently passed health care reform bill contains several items that have little to do with health care reform. One major provision takes private lenders and banks out of the student loan equation and makes the federal government the main
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March 22, 2010 |
In a historic move, the House of Representatives voted by a margin of 219 to 212 to extend health care to millions of uninsured Americans. The reform effort, which survived months of negotiations and the Democrats' loss of their filibuster-proof
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March 19, 2010 |
As the NCAA men's basketball tournament gets underway, many Americans are busy tracking their brackets and predicting which team will win it all. But, this year, there are new questions about another measure of success: college graduation rates. U.S. Education
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March 18, 2010 |
Does the U.S. need more college graduates in its work force to remain competitive in today's global economy? Education experts recently debated that question at the kickoff of a new season of national debates hosted by the University of Virginia's
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March 17, 2010 |
Members of the House of Representatives are preparing for a major vote on health care reform, and Democrats are working to collect the votes they need to pass the current bill while many Republicans are urging them to start over.
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March 16, 2010 |
In response to the killings of two U.S. federal workers near Juarez, Mexico last weekend, American and Mexican investigators are cracking down on violence along the border and Americans are being advised not to travel to the region. Mexico's drug
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March 15, 2010 |
Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has forayed into the art world as the curator of the exhibit "Size DOES Matter," on view at New York City's FLAG Art Foundation through May 27. The exhibition, which explores the concept of size through
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March 12, 2010 |
In a dramatic 5-4 vote this week, the Kansas City School Board decided to close almost half of the district's 61 schools. Aiming to stave off bankruptcy, the system will also lay off 700 employees, including about 285 teachers. Enrollment
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March 11, 2010 |
Over 65 years after the end of World War Two, the 300 remaining Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP for short, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. It's the nation's highest civilian award given by the Congress. The women covered 60
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March 10, 2010 |
Radio Azadi has become the most popular media outlet in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban government. A local version of Radio Free Europe, Radio Azadi's mission is to bring listeners objective news reporting and open discussion, an important
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March 9, 2010 |
Undaunted by a series of attacks at polls that killed at least 38 people, 60 percent of Iraqi voters turned out for the country's parliamentary elections. Most of the violence occurred around the capital city of Baghdad and U.S. military
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March 8, 2010 |
A humanitarian crisis continues to plague the African nation of Sudan, where food shortages and drought are contributing to violence, political instability and death. According to the United Nations, half of southern Sudan's population faces desperate food shortages. More and
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March 4, 2010 |
A new and special court system set up in over 20 jurisdictions around the country now gives veterans a chance at treatment and not simply punishment for their crimes. Like drug courts that began in the 1980s, they're based on
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March 3, 2010 |
As part of a continuing series on making sense of today's economic news, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman talks to Yale historian Paul Kennedy about the rise and fall of great economic powers like the U.S. Kennedy's 1987 book, "The Rise
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March 2, 2010 |
In this video report, NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden reports from Colorado on how the state's $2 billion budget deficit will impact it's homeless population. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, which recently had to shut down its mobile clinic, is
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March 1, 2010 |
President Obama and congressional Democrats plan to move forward on health care reform this week and in spite of Republican objections, may use a process called "reconciliation" to pass the legislation. In this video report, NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman explains
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February 26, 2010 |
More than 50 of Turkey's senior military officers were arrested this week amid allegations they planned to overthrow the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2003. A few days later, a judge released two of the most prominent suspects, the
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February 25, 2010 |
More likely than not, you are a millennial. What makes you different than other generations before you? A new Pew Study outlines some of the major differences. Millennials are the most diverse generation in U.S. history: 61 percent are white,
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February 24, 2010 |
The Supreme Court is considering a case involving the antiterrorism Patriot Act and whether it is unconstitutional to prevent groups from supporting organizations that engage in terrorist activities. At issue is a part of the Patriot Act called the material
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February 23, 2010 |
Thirty-three-year-old Salman Khan is not your average hedge fund analyst. In fact, he recently quit his job to devote himself to an unpaid job teaching math on the Internet. His site, The Khan Academy, has already received the 2009 Tech
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February 22, 2010 |
For U.S. and British soldiers in Afghanistan, long days are spent in complex and dangerous situations. Soldiers trained to fight take on snipers and Taliban extremists who hide bombs in the roads, but also trying to build trust and order
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February 19, 2010 |
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, visited with President Obama Thursday, in a low key meeting at the White House. This was the first meeting between the two Nobel Peace Prize winners. The Dalai Lama is considered a
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February 18, 2010 |
President Barack Obama declared that stimulus legislation passed last year continues to create jobs, even though many Americans doubt that the economy is recovering. Twelve months after he signed the stimulus act into law, President Obama said, "It is largely
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February 17, 2010 |
In a place literally called Trash City on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Zabeleen kids are starting school to learn what generations in their families have not: to read. Laila Iskandar, a social entrepreneur and school founder, says she teaches
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February 16, 2010 |
For three days, 15,000 U.S., British and Afghan troops have marched towards the Taliban stronghold of Marja in southern Afghanistan in the biggest joint operation of the war. Called Operation Moshtarak, the mission is to take Marja, the biggest town
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February 15, 2010 |
Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs received $10 million dollars in government money as part of its efforts to help troubled firms recover from last year's critical financial crisis but has since boasted about $12 million dollars in profits. This
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February 12, 2010 |
Goldman Sachs, or Goldmine Sachs, as some call it, reported a record $13.4 billion dollar profit last year. But just how is that money made? The CEO of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, claims that the bank is doing "God's work," explaining
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February 9, 2010 |
A new concept that uses acting and the theater to help unlock the inner grief and suffering that many soldiers bring back from war zones, is catching on, and some think not a minute too soon. According to a 2008
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February 4, 2010 |
As Haiti's heavy spring rain season gets closer, millions of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince are still living in makeshift tent camps. The Haitian government has rushed to put together a plan to house hundreds of thousands of people before the
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February 3, 2010 |
The Obama administration is trying to rein in the activities of big banks and corporations that engaged in the risky trading that helped bring about the recession. Robert Kelley of the Bank of New York disagrees, saying that the U.S.
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February 2, 2010 |
President Obama proposed a record $3.8 trillion budget this week, which would increase spending for education and increase taxes on the wealthy but would also raise the budget deficit (the gap between what the government has and what it spends)
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February 1, 2010 |
In an unusual and lively exchange at a conference in Baltimore on Friday, President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans sparred over a range of policy issues. In the first part of this video, President Obama answers questions from Republicans about
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January 29, 2010 |
Ever since Haiti's National Palace collapsed in the earthquake on January 12, Haitian President Rene Preval has been without a home. In this video, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez talks to Preval about his efforts to help the people of Haiti.
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January 28, 2010 |
Declaring "I don't quit," President Obama addressed a range of issues, including the economy, foreign policy and health care, during his State of the Union address -- while acknowledging the criticism he has faced in recent weeks. In these videos,
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January 27, 2010 |
As part of his ongoing series on Making Sense of the economy, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman tours real estate in Atlanta, Ga., talking to experts about the current state of the American housing market. After years of a skyrocketing home
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January 26, 2010 |
While Asian carp have been bred in China for over 1,000 years, they are an invasive and entirely destructive species to the Mississippi river and now in the Great Lakes. They can range in size from 50 to 100 pounds
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January 25, 2010 |
Google has threatened to pull out of China, ending a 2006 compromise in which the popular search engine company agreed to allow China to filter taboo topics on searches done inside the country. In speech on Internet freedom and foreign
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January 22, 2010 |
In the first part of this video, NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn campaign finance laws that limited corporate spending on campaigns for president and Congress. The justices voted 5-4 to throw out
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January 21, 2010 |
Senator-elect Scott Brown led the Republican Party to a surprise victory in Massachusetts this week, dealing a devastating blow to President Obama and the Democrat's ability to pass legislation. In this short web video, NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan talks to
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January 20, 2010 |
As Part of the White House "Race to the Top" education plan, billions of dollars from the government's stimulus package are about to become available to state school systems who best meet the Department of Education's standards for improvement. States
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January 19, 2010 |
As relief efforts continue after Haiti's devastating earthquake last week, cell phone and text message donations have emerged as the next big thing in charitable giving. In only six days, the American Red Cross has raised more than $21 million
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January 18, 2010 |
When Senator Ted Kennedy died this summer, it was assumed that his Massachusetts Senate seat would be filled by another Democrat. Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by 3 to 1, but Independent voters outnumber both of them. Now, in a
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January 15, 2010 |
Many years of political corruption and economic problems inside Haiti have created large and thriving Haitian diasporas around the world. In a crisis like Jan. 12 earthquake, Haitian churches, community centers and radio stations become not only clearinghouses for news
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January 14, 2010 |
Haiti, an impoverished nation in the Caribbean, has been stunned by the destruction left by a 7.0 scale earthquake. In this video, NewsHour correspondent Judy Woodruff reports on the impact of the earthquake and ongoing rescue efforts. Most buildings in
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January 13, 2010 |
A major earthquake tore through the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti on Tuesday, striking just 10 miles from the capital Port-au-Prince. The earthquake reached a 7.0 on the Richter scale making it the largest ever recorded in the area. In
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January 12, 2010 |
Previously many of the gay marriage battles have been fought at the local level, but now the ever hotly debated political issue will now have its day in federal court in California in a case that may have nationwide implications.
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January 11, 2010 |
In this latest video report on making sense of the economy, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman takes a closer look at why unemployment numbers are at a steady high of 10 percent, as seen through the lens of a small
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January 8, 2010 |
With the H1N1 vaccine now readily available, the swine flu panic that swept the nation in 2009 has begun to ease and the lines at clinics have disappeared. But some health officials worry that with the flu season still going
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January 7, 2010 |
President Obama's controversial plan to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison has been complicated by the failed plot by an al-Qaida group in Yemen to blow up an American passenger plane on Christmas Day. An estimated 100 detainees at Guantanamo
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January 6, 2010 |
After more than 20 years at the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance theater, director and choreographer Judith Jamison is ready to retire. In this video, NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks to Jamison about her leadership of the company she helped
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January 5, 2010 |
Do you remember life before the iPod, smart phones, and wifi-internet access? In 2000, less than half of the United States was online. Now more than three quarters is plugged in. Desktop work computers used to be people's main access
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January 4, 2010 |
From the divisive presidential election of 2000 to today's debate over health care reform, NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill and political analysts look back at the political highs and lows of the past decade. For Amy Walter, editor in chief of
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December 30, 2009 |
A pioneering program in Mexico is trying to fight poverty by giving small stipends of cash directly to poor mothers. The program, Oppertunidades or "Opportunities" in English, stipulates that women receiving aid keep their kids enrolled in school, take them
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December 29, 2009 |
The U.S. government launched a wide and sweeping search for answers after a would-be bomber tried to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. But every day since has brought new questions and confusion about how and why the
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December 28, 2009 |
A Chinese court sentenced Liu Xiaobo, a prominent human rights activist and the author of Charter 08, to 11 years in prison last week on a charge of inciting to subvert state power, a vague allegation often leveled against opponents
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December 24, 2009 |
Reports this week surfaced details of a computer attack against financial giant Citigroup that may have resulted in the theft of millions of dollars over many months. The bank is currently denying any breach of security but the FBI is
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December 22, 2009 |
A federal report card of 11 school systems this month showed math scores in D.C. schools are improving. In fact, only Washington recorded improvement among fourth and eighth graders in 2007 and 2009, but scores are still well below the
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December 21, 2009 |
After spending 35 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Florida inmate James Bain has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence. A court-mandated DNA test proved Bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault
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December 18, 2009 |
Like millions of villages in the developing world, food in North India's rural communities is cooked with wood or cow dung - emitting black carbon or soot that can cause not only lung disease, but global warming according to climatologist
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December 17, 2009 |
The ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes, born 1883, have come back into vogue thanks to the financial crisis and the stimulus spending based on his theories. In this part of his series on Making Sense of financial news,
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December 16, 2009 |
In one of the planet's coldest places, high in the Himalayas, the glaciers are melting. Some scientists are very worried about what will happen when the glaciers no longer feed freshwater into the rivers of Asia, while others contend that
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December 15, 2009 |
As world leaders attempt to hammer out a deal about permanent reductions in green house gasses, far away in China, workers toil to process "rare earth" minerals that are necessary for many of the new carbon cutting technologies. Producing rare
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December 14, 2009 |
Although Germany has the third largest contingent of forces in Afghanistan, passionate anti-war sentiment persists for Germans who are still haunted by the horrors of World War II. It has become politically risky for German leaders to support President Obama's
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December 11, 2009 |
With the nation's unemployment rising to its highest level in more than 25 years, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how older workers are struggling to secure a job and prepare for their retirement. The jobless rate for workers
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December 10, 2009 |
In this video report from Sioux Center, Iowa, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez looks at how the recession has hit agricultural centers and the farmers that produce the food that feeds the country and the world. Over 95 percent of the
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December 9, 2009 |
Although the state of Michigan has the nation's highest unemployment rate, the college town of Ann Arbor is buzzing with activity thanks to the University of Michigan college campus and research institution. Like other cities that are home to big
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December 8, 2009 |
In this part of a series examining communities across the country, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez reports how the city of Philadelphia is coping through the recession and the decline of once-powerful manufacturing industry. In the past four decades, Philadelphia has
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December 7, 2009 |
Public broadcasting's nightly television news program, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, is going through a transition that is happening in newsrooms across the country, as traditional forms of media adapt to new technologies, the Web and 24-hour-a-day access. The program,
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December 4, 2009 |
The president's federal stimulus package included $4.3 billion in funding for America's public schools and according to a new report, most states plan to apply for their share of federal stimulus money for education. Led by Secretary Arne Duncan, the
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December 3, 2009 |
In this video report, NewsHour correspondents fan out and talk to Americans around the country to get reactions to President Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, announced just this week. After a three-months long review, President Obama outlined his new plan for
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December 2, 2009 |
An eight-year drought in southeastern Australia is endangering the livelihood of farmers who depend on water to grow staple crops that help feed people around the world. Many Australians believe that the drying up of the Murray-Darling Basin, an area
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December 1, 2009 |
In this video, NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden visits Fort Carson Army base in Colorado to speak with troops and their families in anticipation of President Obama's major policy announcement regarding Afghanistan this week. President Obama is expected to send additional
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November 30, 2009 |
As part of his series Making Sense of the financial crisis, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman looks at how the weakness of the U.S. dollar has spurred a new interest in investing in gold instead of paper money. With the U.S.
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November 25, 2009 |
Congress in now considering ways to educate Americans to manage their budgets, credit cards and debt so that the mistakes that led to this current recession don't happen again. The military has already instituted training programs that could serve as
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November 24, 2009 |
With its large middle class and healthy stock market, India's booming economy continues to grow in spite of the global financial crisis that has crippled other world economies. The stock market in the business capital, Mumbai, is up more than
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November 23, 2009 |
Protests from University of California students erupted Thursday after school officials approved a 32 percent tuition increase to make up for shrinking state funds. Members of the board of regents that governs the 10 schools under the University of California
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November 20, 2009 |
Nearly 10 months after President Obama asked the Democrat-led Congress to send him a health care reform bill, the Senate has come closer than ever to debating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's $848 billion bill in the face of stubborn
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November 19, 2009 |
This video looks at the political instability that still exists in Bosnia Herzegovina 14 years after the end of a civil war that killed 100,000 people. In Bosnia Herzegovina, the Eastern European nation once part of Yugoslavia, normal life as
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November 18, 2009 |
According to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 50 million Americans had a hard time putting food on the table in 2008 -- one in seven American households, an increase of 13 million people the year
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November 17, 2009 |
With President Obama making his three-day trip to China this week, GlobalPost correspondent Josh Shin hits the streets of Beijing to talk to residents about their thoughts on how the U.S. president is doing. In this video, Shin hears from,
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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 |
How are artists reacting to the current economic situation? Poet Bob Hicok was born and raised in Michigan, worked in factories and once owned an automotive die design business there before becoming a professor at Virginia Tech. His poetry reflects
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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 |
Known for compact writing and for leading a quiet life, Kay Ryan has taken on a very public role as the nation's poet laureate. She says she came to poetry reluctantly, but even as a child, she was infatuated with
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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 |
Poet, playwright and editor Nathalie Handal has lived in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Arab world. She uses poetry to weave together her memories and experiences and move forward as a person in the world. "I've
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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 13, 2009 |
Poet Cynthia Zarin shares a poem she wrote after reading an article about a trial in which Abraham Lincoln, while working as a lawyer before becoming president, successfully defended a murder suspect.
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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 13, 2009 |
Poet Elizabeth Andrews was selected to read an original poem at Barack Obama's inauguration at the U.S. Capitol January 20. She teaches African-American studies at Yale University. She spoke with the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about her important task and her
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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 25, 2008 |
Miami-based Latin American art critic and poet Richardo Pau-Llosa discusses the memories of his youth in Cuba and Miami that he writes about in his poetry. Pau-Llosa was born in Cuba but moved to the United States after communists came
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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 9, 2008 |
Inspired by her feelings about her son's tours of duty in Iraq as a Green Beret, poet Francis Richey composed 28 poems for him compiled in a new book called "The Warrior." Richey, who raised her son Ben as a
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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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