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Female Athletes Have Broken Records, Flexed Winning Muscles for 2012 Olympics

Female Athletes Have Broken Records, Flexed Winning Muscles for 2012 Olympics…

Finding Poetry in the Athleticism and Lingo of the Olympics

Writer and professor Priscila Uppal is serving as "Poet in Residence" for Canadian Athletes Now, a non-profit group supporting Canada's athletes at the 2012 London Olympics. Uppal talks to Jeffrey Brown about her residency and where she's found inspiration, as…

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An Indian artist paints an idol of Lord Krishna at a roadside stall on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, on Wednesday. The idols are in heavy demand ahead of the upcoming Hindu festival of Janmashtami, which marks the birth of…

Track and Field Events Warm Up as Gymnastics Takes a Bow

U.S. Gymnastic's all-around champ Gabby Douglas struggled to keep focus in individual events, while track and field events ramp up with 100-meter dash, hurdles and high jumps. Margaret Warner talks to USA Today's Christine Brennan about the latest results from…

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Is $850,000 Enough to Retire On?

A pedestrian passes a Fidelity Investments branch in New York. Photo by Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here…

U.K. Athletes Win More Gold; Caribbean Nations Dominate the Track

British spectators at the London Olympics have more reasons to wave their flags proudly as the U.K. enjoys its best Olympics performance since 1908. Margaret Warner reports on the latest wins, and gives an update on U.S. athletes in gymnastics…

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Seven Killed, Including Suspected Shooter, at Sikh Temple Near Milwaukee

Police SWAT officers surround a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin where at least six people were killed when a shooter, who was shot dead by a police officer, opened fire on congregants. Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images.

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Nepalese children dressed in traditional cow costumes take part in a procession for the Gai Jatra in Kathmandu on Friday. Families who have lost a relative during the year parade a cow, a sacred animal which some believe helps the…

Gwen's Take: Who We Are and How We Vote - Connecting the Dots

Paul Taylor, the executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, has long experience explaining why things happen. When we chatted on the PBS NewsHour this week, the subject was the widening chasm of economic segregation. It was…