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Aug 6, 2015 7:54 PM EST

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Thursday on the NewsHour, the stage is set in Cleveland for the first Republican debate. Also: New challenges 50 years since the Voting Rights Act, a grocery store chain devises a business model for food deserts, a deadly outbreak of pneumonia in NYC, Jon Stewart says farewell to The Daily Show and Michael Lewis’s brief but spectacular take on the failings of Wall Street.

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