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PBS NewsHour

August 10, 2014PBS NewsHour full episode

Aug 10, 2014 10:39 PM EDT

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On this edition, new American efforts to save tens of thousands of Iraqis who fled from islamic jihadists, the burden of college debt and new statistics about how much it weighs on graduates and for how long, and from Boston, the artist Jamie Wyeth, picking up where his father and grandfather left off.

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