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Friday on the NewsHour, leaders from around the globe conclude a summit on keeping nuclear material away from terrorists. Also: Two of largest states raise the minimum wage to $15, how a new voter ID law affects Wisconsin voters, Shields and Brooks on the week's news, a visit to ...
Wednesday on the NewsHour, the presidential candidates stump in Wisconsin and New York ahead of upcoming primaries. Also: A look at what’s driving Trump’s appeal, the past and future of U.S. policy in the Middle East, how a Colombian peace deal could impact the drug trade, the ...
Tuesday on the NewsHour, an endorsement and a criminal charge dominate the campaign trail as attention turns to the Wisconsin primary. Also: Unions make an unlikely win at the Supreme Court, the FBI cracks a locked iPhone, Iraqi Christians take up arms, where the candidates stand on immigration, a former ...
Watch Thursday's full Democratic debate from the Helen Bader Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (Closed-caption version) [View the story "PBS NewsHour Democratic debate live blog" on Storify]
... HARI SREENIVASAN: Milwaukee is the center of the Democratic political universe tonight. The candidates meet for a PBS NewsHour presidential debate, and how they perform on stage could influence the next key contests. Our political director, Lisa Desjardins, is in Milwaukee. LISA DESJARDINS: That's right. "NewsHour" staff is ...
... a substantial gender gap between the two candidates, with Burke holding a strong advantage among women, but Walker holding an even stronger advantage among men. Wisconsin’s political landscape is among the most polarized in the country, as PBS NewsHour’s Gwen Ifill explored in July. That schism deepened in ...
Tonight on the program, we examine a truce and cease-fire between Hamas and Israel which opens more border crossings into Gaza. Also: how American companies change their address to avoid corporate taxes, a Wisconsin group trying to turn student borrowers into activists, whether Iraqi factions will reconcile in the ...
On Wednesday's NewsHour: Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords urges Congress to enact tougher gun laws The state of the economic recovery The Israeli airstrike inside Syria Newly elected Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin And, dissident Chen Guangcheng on the struggle for human rights in China Correspondent Ray Suarez has your preview ...
... in response: pinch pennies. Largess gives way to parsimony. When it comes to unpopular disbursements like taxes, yes gives way to no. The standoff in Wisconsin, then, should come as a rude awakening only to those who've dozed off ala Rip Van Winkle. One partisan interpretation of events: Wisconsin ...
There’s no shortage of analysis about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party. Ben Wikler is focused on what Democrats plan to do about it. The former Wisconsin Democratic Party chair wrote "This Is the Plan," laying out lessons from one of the most closely divided states and what ...
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