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President Obama announces the creation of a national monument for Cesar E. Chavez in Keene, Calif. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/GettyImages. President Obama has been heavily campaigning in California over the past two days, with events in Los Angeles and San…

Oct 08

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On Monday's NewsHour: The differences between the presidential candidates on foreign policy A deadly meningitis outbreak, now in nine states The Nobel Prize for discovering how to reprogram adult cells to behave like embryonic stem cells And Salman Rushdie's memoir…

It's another episode of the Doubleheader, where we talk about the sport of politics and the politics of sports with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Tonight's semi-serious topic is how our two…

Oct 05

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On Friday's NewsHour: The jobless rate slides under 8 percent for the first time since January 2009 The hotly contested Senate race in Missouri Mark Shields and David Brooks And, an election story from Venezuela -- where an opposition candidate…

Oct 04

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On Thursday's NewsHour: The candidates are back on the campaign trail, fresh off their first debate We drill down into two issues from last night: taxes and the deficit Florida voters tell us what they heard And, baseball's first triple…