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... Year, was elected to Congress by the state of Connecticut. The party leaned on the issue in high-profile governors’ races as well, including in Wisconsin, where the state’s superintendent of public instruction, Democrat Tony Evers, unseated the incumbent Republican Scott Walker. Yet it’s unclear how much attention ...
... largest share of undecided voters for a presidential election in 20 years, and the majority broke for Trump in 12 of 15 key states including Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Our latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll said 13 percent of registered voters are undecided about whether they would vote ...
Nearly 800,000 federal employees have been furloughed or are working without pay during the fight over border wall funding between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats. In interviews with the PBS NewsHour, dozens of government workers and those around them expressed frustration with the shutdown and its impact on ...
Democratic Congressional candidates now hold a nine-point advantage over Republicans, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. But can polls be trusted? In 2016, polls in key states showed Hillary Clinton winning handily. Donald Trump won all three. Judy Woodruff discusses with NPR’s ...
... and I think that that's something that's needed. Jeffrey Brown:A fine thought in a county and country full of ferment. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jeffrey Brown in Nowhereradio, North Freedom, Wisconsin.Judy Woodruff: All right. And we're not going to leave you there, Jeffrey ...
... t know until you’re there and you feel helpless," he said. The Anne Arundel County Police did not immediately respond to requests from the PBS NewsHour for additional information. On its official Twitter account, Anne Arundel County Police said the building was evacuated while officers continues to search it ...
... determine which political party controls power. The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled in two cases this term, keeping in place boundaries in Maryland and Wisconsin. A fight is still raging in one Utah county over current district lines and their effect on the voice of Native Americans. From the ...
It’s hard to imagine anything ever slowing Elizabeth Brackett. In her more than two decades of work for the PBS NewsHour, she braved earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and presidential campaigns. She never yawned. She always pushed for more -- more interviews, more phone calls, more perspective. Her idea of relaxation ...
... overcome implicit bias? Yamiche Alcindor reports and Judy Woodruff learns more from Amrita Chakrabarti Myers of Indiana University and Patricia Devine of the University of Wisconsin. ... Judy Woodruff: More than 8,000 Starbucks stores closed down across the country today so that its employees, 180,000-plus, could get anti ...
... nation. Moreover, the company said employees were to be given toolkits to go through group discussions about their own experiences with bias. Starbucks declined the PBS NewsHour’s request for an interview. Though Starbucks closed more than 8,000 company-owned stores Tuesday, more than 7,000 of its licensed ...
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