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May 17, 2013
Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later With MacNeil And Lehrer
On May 17, 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer launched public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Forty years later, the two recount their memories after some of the more gripping moments and how their partnership changed not only the face of television journalism, but also their lives.
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| May 17, 2013
Shields and Brooks on Government Scandals, Remembering Watergate
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks talk with Judy Woodruff about the recent scandals rocking Washington and the Obama administration, what we can observe about how the government operates and how it affects the trust of the American people, plus the legacy of Watergate 40 years on.
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| May 17, 2013
As Outrage Grows, Military Makes Addressing Sexual Assault Top Priority
Defense Secretary Hagel said he'll do everything necessary to fix the military's sexual assault crisis, but offered no new solutions during a briefing at the Pentagon. Some members of Congress are advocating a solution that lies partly outside the command ranks. Margaret Warner talks with The Wall Street Journal's Julian Barnes.
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| May 17, 2013
Outgoing IRS Chief Admits Mistakes, but Dismisses Notion Scrutiny Was Political
Outgoing IRS chief Steven Miller admitted failures and faced tough questions at a Congressional hearing, but he also asserted that the IRS did not act out of political motivation in scrutinizing conservative groups. Congressional correspondent Kwame Holman reports.
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| May 17, 2013
Conversation: The Jazzed Up 'Gatsby'
It is--again--a Gatsby/Fitzgerald moment. "The Great Gatsby" is on the big screen now in by Baz Luhrmann's new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel. There are also several new books about the lives of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
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| May 17, 2013
Cicada Sighting! Bug-Eyed Critters Emerging in Northern Virginia
Although the brood II cicadas aren't expected to emerge en masse until late May or June, a nice crop of them nested in a batch of poison ivy in Virgina’s Bull Run Regional Park on Thursday. Their veiny golden wings and bright beady red eyes clung to grass, leaves and tree bark.
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| May 17, 2013
Military Sexual Assault Crisis Prompts Congress to Act
President Obama summoned Pentagon leaders to the White House Thursday to discuss what Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey declared a crisis: sexual assaults in the military. At the center of the debate: should military commanders be stripped of their sole authority to decide whether complaints of sexual assault go forward?
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| May 17, 2013
Inequality Today: Worse than a Century Ago?
Paul Solman explains how today's income disparity compares to the past. The theme of the presidential campaign of 1912 was economic inequality, he points out, but it's worse today and has been since the mid-1990s.
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| May 17, 2013
House Committee to Hold First Hearing on IRS Scandal
The former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, will take his place in the hot seat Friday morning when the House Ways and Means Committee holds the first hearing on the tax collection agency's targeting of conservative groups.
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| May 17, 2013
A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings
The Watergate scandal began with a burglary in June 1972 and ended with a president's resignation in August 1974.
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| May 17, 2013
Gwen's Take: I See Your Benghazi and Raise You One IRS
It was scandal week in Washington, but because of an accident of scheduling, I had the opportunity to view it through an altered lens.
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| May 16, 2013
How Watergate Affected You
Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public television's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring all 250 hours of the proceedings, and launching the beginnings of what the PBS NewsHour is today.
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| May 16, 2013
Major Embryonic Stem Cell Advance Raises Ethical Quandaries
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have achieved a longtime goal. They cloned a human embryo to derive embryonic stem cells able to transform into tissues and organs genetically identical to patients who need them. Jeffrey Brown talks to NPR's Rob Stein about the science as well as the ethical concerns.
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| May 16, 2013
Demographic Shifts, Biblical Ideals Contribute to Evangelical Immigration Stance
While lawmakers in Washington continue work on overhauling American immigration policy, Ray Suarez reports from Colorado, where members of the Evangelical Christian community are advocating passage of immigration reform to respond to demographic shifts in membership.
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| May 16, 2013
Keeping on Top of Priorities When White House Deals With Drama
The Obama administration has been hit with a wave of crises and scandals lately. Jeffrey Brown talks with Tom Perriello from Center for American Progress Action Fund and strategist Ron Christie, who worked on Capitol Hill in the George W. Bush administration, about handling drama without losing sight of presidential priorities.
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| May 16, 2013
News Wrap: Justice Department Under Fire for Omissions on No-Fly List
In other news Thursday, the Justice Department failed to add a small number of terror suspects -- members of the federal witness protection program -- to the government "no-fly" list. Also, tornadoes in Texas killed at least six people, injured dozens and left hundreds homeless.
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| May 16, 2013
White House Works to Calm Storm of Scandal
President Barack Obama used a rainy, Rose Garden news conference to get in front of a series of political storms, tackling questions on the IRS scandal, the AP subpoenas and Benghazi. Judy Woodruff talks to White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri about how the Obama administration is responding to various crises.
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| May 16, 2013
Latest Forecast Shows the U.S. Drought Moving West
The drought shows signs of lifting in the East -- but the forecast shows more trouble ahead as the drought is expected to intensify in the West and Central Plains this summer, according to NOAA.
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| May 16, 2013
15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic
On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin gavelled in the hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee. The impending result was unfathomable -- the downfall and resignation of President Nixon. Four decades later, we look back at some of the people involved.
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| May 16, 2013
Around the Nation
Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.
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| May 16, 2013
Economics, Game Theory and Jane Austen
A leading economist explains why game theory has become so important in economics, and how Jane Austen anticipated its results a mere 200 years ago.
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| May 16, 2013
Turkish Prime Minister Talks Syria with Obama at White House
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, with his country's civil war having "wracked the region." Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke today in a news conference from the White House Rose Garden.
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| May 16, 2013
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reflects on Four Months in Orbit
Canadian Space Agency Commander Chris Hadfield discussed his four months on the International Space Station during his first press conference since returning to Earth. He also spoke of the peril of re-adapting to gravity. He's even had to change the way he speaks. "I hadn't realized I'd learned to talk with a weightless tongue."
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| May 16, 2013
Obama Attempts Damage Control on IRS, Benghazi, AP Scandals
To catch you up on the last 24 hours: President Barack Obama canned the man at the helm of the IRS, released emails between intelligence analysts and State Department officials following the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and asked a Senate Democrat to reintroduce a bill to help reporters protect the identity of their sources.
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| May 15, 2013
Why Angelina Jolie Decided to Undergo Preventative Double Mastectomy
In a New York Times op-ed, actress Angelina Jolie disclosed she had a preventative double mastectomy because she carries a greater genetic risk of developing breast cancer. Gwen Ifill talks with genetic counselor Beth Peshkin of Georgetown University and Dr. Kenneth Offit of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York.
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| May 15, 2013
Global Cities Get Help Preparing for Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather
Judy Woodruff reports on a $100 million initiative to better prepare 100 cities around the world for natural disasters and extreme weather, both natural and man-made. Judy Woodruff talks to Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado about the importance of making more resilient cities.
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| May 15, 2013
HatCam Goes Running: PBS NewsHour Team Takes 4th of 17 in Charity Race
Members of Congress, journalists, judges and agency staffers ran on common ground Wednesday in the annual ACLI Capital Challenge at Washington's Anacostia Park. The PBS NewsHour team, "No Commercials, No Mercy," placed fourth out of 17 teams in the electronic media category. Also present was NewsHour's celebrated HatCam.
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| May 15, 2013
Obama Announces IRS Resignation, Promises Safeguards and Oversight Cooperation
President Barack Obama announced that acting commissioner of the IRS Steven Miller would be stepping down, calling the political targeting scandal "inexcusable." Jeffrey Brown delves into the latest developments and lingering questions with Josh Gerstein for Politico and Paul Streckfus, creator and editor of EO Tax Journal.
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| May 15, 2013
Boston Attacks Inspire Use of Surveillance Cameras in Cities Nationwide
Surveillance cameras near the site of the Boston bombings helped authorities quickly identify and find the suspects. Those events have sparked a push in cities nationwide to increase their use of cameras. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from San Francisco on how police are utilizing surveillance as prevention.
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| May 15, 2013
New Sexual Assault Allegations Against Those Charged With Prevention, Protection
Two members of the military responsible for preventing sexual assaults and protecting victims are facing allegations that they committed sex crimes. A recent Pentagon survey found that 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012. For more, Margaret Warner talks with Craig Whitlock of The Washington Post.
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| May 15, 2013
Republicans Demand Action, Jail Time for Those Responsible for IRS Scandal
Republicans stepped up demands for action against the IRS for targeting conservative political groups, the day after the Treasury Department released a report saying the IRS used inappropriate criteria in assessing tax-exempt status. Gwen Ifill reports on Attorney General Eric Holder's testimony in a House Judiciary hearing.
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| May 15, 2013
Study Pinpoints Link Between Fitness and Cancer in Men
There's new evidence that being fit reduces your risk for getting cancer. The study, released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, looked at the link between fitness in middle-aged men and the likelihood of a cancer diagnosis later in life.
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| May 15, 2013
How Cities Are Preparing for the Next Big Disaster
Last fall Hurricane Sandy crippled sections of the East Coast of North America, with damages in the billions of dollars. Recently the Rockefeller Foundation announced a $35 million grant program to help cities develop disaster preparedness plans and to ensure resilient cities that can bounce back.
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| May 15, 2013
Would a New 'Bretton Woods' Save the Global Economy?
Are the world’s central banks printing too much money? Does the global economy need coordination? Author Benn Steil examines what lessons can be learned from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.
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| May 15, 2013
Photographer Jon Lowenstein Explores 'Chicago's Bloody Year'
For the past 10 years photographer Jon Lowenstein has turned his lens to the forces shaping daily life for the people of Chicago's South Side, chronicling the demolition of some of the nation's largest housing projects, the closure of crumbling schools and some of the bonds built in a changing community amidst ongoing violence.
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| May 15, 2013
Headed to Law School? Lower Your Expectations
Recent law school grads face a tough job market, daunting student loans and -- if they land a job -- a demanding work environment. Steven Harper's "The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis" serves as a wake up call and warning for students disillusioned by the prestigious lawyers they watch on T.V.
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| May 15, 2013
Attorney General Holder Faces Republicans' Questions at Hearing
Attorney General Eric Holder may be the lone witness at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight Wednesday. Watch a live stream of the hearing, scheduled to begin at 1:15 p.m.
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| May 15, 2013
Moon and Earth May Share a Watery Past
Scientists have found water trapped in lunar rocks. But where did it come from? And how did it get there? A new study last week says it may have come from Earth more than 4 billion years ago.
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| May 15, 2013
Trio of Scandals Puts Obama, Holder in Hot Seat
A trio of scandals has put President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on the hot seat.
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| May 14, 2013
PBS NewsHour Team 'No Commercials, No Mercy' Sweats it Out for Charity
Join 14 PBS NewsHour road warriors at 8 a.m. EDT Wednesday, as they hit the pavement in a race to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. We'll be running 3 miles for the annual ACLI Capital Challenge, which also includes members of Congress, other branches of government and reporters from print, television and radio outlets.
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| May 14, 2013
Book Explores Societal Transfer of Power From Big Institution to Active Citizen
Author Nicco Mele's new book, 'The End of Big,' explores how technology has made the world a smaller place, opening up new opportunities for local politics, small business and average citizens to wield influence. Political editor Christina Bellantoni talks to Mele about his work and the ways technology impacts our democracy.
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| May 14, 2013
Was Seizure of AP's Phone Records Justified or Harmful to Press Freedom?
Judy Woodruff talks with David Schultz, legal counsel for the Associated Press, about the procedures for accessing information from the news media about confidential sources, what constitutes "crossing the line" by the government and whether the current investigation was justified by the gravity of the situation.
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| May 14, 2013
Justice Department Seized AP Phone Records to Track Government Leaks
The Justice Department secretly subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press journalists during two months in 2012. The AP was notified that records had been secretly seized for more than 20 of its phone lines, possibly to track government leaks of classified information about a foiled terror plot. Judy Woodruff reports.
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| May 14, 2013
News Wrap: Abortion Doctor Convicted for Murdering Babies Gets Life Sentence
In other news Tuesday, Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering three babies. Gosnell forfeited his right to appeal to avoid the death penalty. Also, the Defense Department says it will furlough more than 600,000 civilian employees for 11 days through September.
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| May 14, 2013
Disclosures About Involvement in IRS Targeting Draw Calls for Transparency
The scandal at the IRS over political targeting of conservative groups has extended to include agency officials in Washington. Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder ordered the FBI to see if any laws were broken. Jeffrey Brown talks with Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post and CQ Roll Call's Eliza Newlin Carney.
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| May 14, 2013
Jolie's Decision Sheds Light on BRCA Gene, Importance of Genetic Counseling
Angelina Jolie announced today that she has undergone a preventative double mastectomy due to a gene she has that increases her risk of of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. What makes this gene so devastating and who is affected by it? We talked to a leading oncologist Dr. Sandra Swain for answers.
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| May 14, 2013
Internet Cat Video Festival
At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after the sun went down.
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| May 14, 2013
Commander Hadfield Reports to Ground Control
Commander Chris Hadfield is a great many things: photographer, educator, social media maven -- did I mention astronaut? Add troubadour to the laundry list. That his music video -- a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" -- has already scored 6.6 million hits is a testament to his success as a popularizer of science and space.
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| May 14, 2013
Feline Fans Unite at Internet Cat Video Festival
At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after the sun went down.
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| May 14, 2013
How Sequestration Could Affect US Flood-Warning System
BOISE, Idaho -- The government's automatic budget cuts, known as sequestration, are taking down up to 150 of the nation's stream gauges -- devices that provide life-saving flood warnings and help scientists track drought conditions. The first round of nationwide closures started this month.
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