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May 22, 2013
In Tornado Aftermath, What Residents of Moore Can Learn From Joplin
As homeowners, business leaders and city officials in Moore, Okla., begin to grapple with damage from the devastating tornado, just 220 miles away, residents of Joplin, Mo., are remembering their own losses two years ago and are responding to the Oklahoma tragedy by sending help, donations and hope.
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| May 22, 2013
Building a Monster Tornado
A special kind of thunderstorm called a "supercell thunderstorm" produces tornadoes. The wind shear creates a horizontal spinning effect that veers from a southeast to a southwesterly direction, increasing in speed as it rises.
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| May 22, 2013
'Black Watch' Is Worth Watching
Have you ever thought of marching, fighting soldiers as ballet dancers? In a play called "Black Watch," a troupe of Scottish actors spends nearly two hours strutting across the stage, choreographed as if they were dancers.
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| May 22, 2013
The Daily Frame
A little boy looks at art works on the floor and wall by Ugo Rondinone, which are represented at the Art Basel art show in Hong Kong.
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| May 22, 2013
Republicans in Congress, President Look to Send Aid to Oklahoma
As Oklahoma residents sift through shreds of their community, mourn shocking losses and press ahead with rescue efforts, politicians back in Washington are getting to the increasingly difficult business of funding the post-tornado recovery.
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| May 21, 2013
Honoring Sally Ride's Legacy as Scientist, Trailblazer, Educational Role Model
President Barack Obama announced he would posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sally Ride, the first woman in space. NewsHour's science correspondent Miles O'Brien reflects on Ride's legacy and her impact as an educator who encouraged young women to study science, technology, engineering and math.
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| May 21, 2013
Congressional Hearing on Apple Tax Practices Puts Spotlight on Legal Loopholes
Tech giant Apple has avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. or any country by using a complex web of Irish subsidiaries. But Apple is not alone, and none of the practices are illegal. Margaret Warner talks to Charles Duhigg of The New York Times for more on corporate tax loopholes.
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| May 21, 2013
How Far Should Government Go in Investigation of Leaks?
Three former Justice Department officials wrote a New York Times op-ed defending the subpoena of Associated Press reporters' phone records. Gwen Ifill talks with First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams and Michael Mukasey, former U.S. attorney general, about whether the department overreached its authority in its investigations.
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| May 21, 2013
Senate Committee Grills Former IRS Commissioners on When Officials Knew Facts
A Senate Finance Committee hearing on the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service turned its focus to former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, who led the agency until last fall. Judy Woodruff has more, including testimony from his successor Steven Miller and the Treasury Department inspector general.
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| May 21, 2013
News Wrap: Court Rules Bin Laden Photos Can Remain Classified
In other news Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled it will not require photos and videos of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The Obama administration argued the images could reveal intelligence methods and put Americans at risk. Also, fighting continued for a third day in the key Syria-Lebanon border town of Qusair.
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| May 21, 2013
Okla. Town Confronts Reality of Rebuilding After Stunningly Powerful Tornado
A monster tornado nearly flattened the town of Moore, Okla. Jeffrey Brown gets reaction from Time magazine's Jay Newton-Small, Sgt. Jeremy Lewis of the Moore Police Department and Bob Henson from the National Center for Atmospheric Research about the devastation, the latest rescue efforts and the science behind the mighty storm.
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| May 21, 2013
Survivors of Monster Oklahoma Tornado Share Harrowing Stories
In Moore, Okla., residents of the town devastated by a powerful tornado began surveying damage and assessing losses. Rescue crews combed through rubble through the night, searching for survivors in a disaster that has so far claimed 24 lives. Gwen Ifill reports on the grueling efforts to recover after the storm.
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| May 21, 2013
Tornado Classified at Top of Scale; NBA Star Durant Pledges $1 Million
The National Weather Service announced Tuesday that the tornado was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph. The tornado's path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.
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| May 21, 2013
Group Seeks Help From Social Networks to Combat Hate Speech
Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter helps users mobilize around a common cause. But what if their message is one of hate? The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group working against global racism, has compiled a list of hundreds of websites it deems hateful and is pushing their host sites to remove them.
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| May 21, 2013
Just as in 1999, Oklahoma Town Rebuilds After Twister
NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser visited residents just returning to their homes after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma and Kansas in 1999.
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| May 21, 2013
The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner!
Several of you quoted the "Rubber Ducky" song Ernie of Sesame Street so often sings. Others turned the Victoria Harbour into an enormous bathtub. But our winner connected our giant rubber duck with another giant from history.
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| May 21, 2013
The Daily Frame
A visitor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York experiences an exhibit entitled Rain Room. The room is filled with a field of falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected, offering visitors the experience of controlling the rain.
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| May 21, 2013
Watch Live: Apple CEO Tim Cook Faces Senate Questions on Taxes
A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates. Watch Apple CEO Tim Cook as he testifies before the panel on the company's tax strategy.
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| May 21, 2013
Ask The Headhunter: Over 50? Show How You'll Do the Job
Have you ever been skeptical of headhunter Nick Corcodilos' unconventional advice? One job seeker decided to put some Ask The Headhunter methods to the test and the results were extremely successful.
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| May 21, 2013
Watch Live: Senate Finance Committee Hearing on IRS
Live stream: Senate Finance Committee hearing to review criteria employed by the IRS to target tax exemption applications for greater scrutiny.
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| May 21, 2013
Politics Put On Hold As Nation Surveys Oklahoma Tornado Damage
A massive tornado ravaged a suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday, leveling buildings, killing at least 51 people, and temporarily brushing aside a trio of brewing political storms that had been the focus of official Washington in recent weeks.
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| May 20, 2013
Mile-Wide Tornado Rips Through Suburban Oklahoma City
A mile-wide tornado ripped through suburban Oklahoma City Monday. Video showed homes and buildings in Moore, Okla., were reduced to rubble, and vehicles littered roadways south and southwest of Oklahoma City.
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| May 20, 2013
5 Questions: Why Yahoo Hopes Tumblr Will Expand Its 'Coolness'
Yahoo, the languishing tech pioneer, officially unveiled its acquisition of social blogging platform Tumblr on Monday. The $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo could mean a whole world of things for both of the Internet companies, as well as for Yahoo chief executive -- and former Google executive -- Marissa Mayer.
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| May 20, 2013
What DSM-5, Updated Mental Health 'Bible,' Means for Diagnosing Patients
The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses the changes and implications for both patients and professionals with Dr. Michael First of Columbia University and Dr. Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute.
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| May 20, 2013
Coding Skills Combine With Civic Consciousness to Improve Government
Code for America, a San Francisco nonprofit, enlists high tech professionals to work with local governments to create tools to help average citizens tackle hunger, blight and other civic problems. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
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| May 20, 2013
Yahoo Makes Bid for Reboot With $1.1 Billion Deal for Popular Blog Site Tumblr
Tech company Yahoo bought Tumblr for a reported $1.1 billion, adding the fast-growing social media site with more than 100 million blogs to its roster of assets. Jeffrey Brown talks with Rebecca Lieb, a research analyst for the Altimeter Group, about the appeal of the image-centric and mobile-friendly blogging platform.
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| May 20, 2013
Massive, Mile-Wide Tornado Leaves Wake of Destruction Outside Oklahoma City
Two tornadoes struck the Oklahoma City area within 24 hours, leaving behind miles of devastation and leveling scores of homes. Kwame Holman reports on the extreme weather in Oklahoma. Jeffrey Brown talks to Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department and Bill Bunting of the National Severe Storm Prediction Center.
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| May 20, 2013
Weekly Poem: 'Things the Doctor Asks'
This week's poem comes from Charles Hood. He is the author of "South x South," winner of the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His previous books include "Bombing Ploesti" and "Rio de Dios" (Red Hen Press).
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| May 20, 2013
A High Tech Solution for a Neighborhood Problem
Dubbed "Peace Corps for geeks," Code for America sends teams of tech professionals to spend a month in a U.S. city listening to officials and residents explain a specific civic challenge. Fellows then return to San Francisco headquarters to develop a web-based program they think will help.
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| May 20, 2013
In Further Firming of Relations, Myanmar President Visits White House
Myanmar President Thein Sein becomes the first leader of Myanmar to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday. Some advocacy groups are concerned that the Obama administration is rewarding Myanmar before Thein Sein has followed through on all of his promises for reforms.
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| May 20, 2013
What About Social Security Benefits for Singles and the Divorced?
Fifty-two percent of women over 60 aren't married and nearly 70 percent of those over 75 are single. What Social Security benefits are they entitled to? And what about single or divorced men?
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| May 20, 2013
Life of Sally Ride Honored at Kennedy Center Tribute
On Monday, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien will serve as master of ceremonies at an event honoring the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. This is the column that O'Brien wrote immediately following Ride's death in July 2012, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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| May 20, 2013
The Daily Frame
A contortionist performs as a lizard at the Chelsea Flower Show at Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, England.
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| May 20, 2013
Republicans Still Fired Up Over IRS Scandal Following Hearing
At this point, there appears to be more heat than light when it comes to discussion of the Internal Revenue Service's singling out of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when applying for tax-exempt status.
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| 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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