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Full Episode: August 20, 2019 – PBS NewsHour full episode

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CEOs are saying they need to be more socially minded. Will anything change?

Gazans suffer life-shattering injuries when border protests turn violent

By Jane Ferguson

Meet the CIA’s disguise artists who helped Cold War spies disappear

Trump defends China trade policy amid economic worries

In Common’s new memoir about healing, ‘love can be an action’

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News Wrap: Afghans mourn victims of wedding bombing

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News Wrap: NYPD fires Pantaleo, 5 years after Eric Garner’s death

Nearly 2 million protest in Hong Kong, as Chinese forces gather near the border

By Bruce Harrison

Why Trump’s change to Title X funding means fewer health choices for women

N.Y. suspended its statute of limitations on child sex abuse. A flood of claims emerged

How 2020 Democrats are striving to stand out in early states

Tamara Keith and Joshua Johnson on Trump and recession fears, gun safety momentum

How Portland’s black community and police are sharing their stories through theater

By Cat Wise

How artist Scott Hocking is transforming Detroit’s industrial wasteland

By Mary Ellen Geist

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) hold a news conference after Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved to formally condemn President Donald Trump's attacks on four minority congresswomen on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2019. Photo by Erin Scott/Reuters

WATCH: Reps. Omar and Tlaib address Israel’s decision to restrict their travel

WATCH: NYPD fires officer for 2014 death of Eric Garner

By Tom Hays, Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Full Episode: August 18, 2019 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

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The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America

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Opera singer Placido Domingo sits during an event at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, U.S., May 11, 2018. Photo by: Shannon Stapleton/File Photo/Reuters

Arts Aug 20

LA Opera opening a ‘thorough’ investigation into Placido Domingo allegations immediately

By Jocelyn Gecker, Associated Press

A police officer drives past the center city Starbucks, where two black men were arrested, as they prepare to close to train staff to prevent racial discrimination, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., May 29, 2018. Photo by: Jessica Kourkounis/Reuters

Nation Aug 20

Philadelphia police commissioner resigning over sexual harassment allegations, mayor says

By Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions while sitting in front of paintings of former U.S. presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson during his meeting with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. August 20, 2019. Photo by: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Politics Aug 20

WATCH: Trump acknowledges China polices may mean U.S. economic pain

By Kevin Freking, Josh Boak, Associated Press

A view into a former group bedroom at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia on August 24, 2013. Photo by EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images

Nation Aug 20

Experts reject Trump’s call for mental hospitals to fight gun violence

By Courtney Vinopal

World Aug 20

Sudan’s army and pro-democracy movement form joint ruling body

By Samy Magdy, Associated Press

World Aug 20

How a Japan-South Korea dispute could threaten this U.S. intelligence pact

By Bryan Wood

Migrants swim after jumping off the Spanish rescue ship Open Arms, close to the Italian shore in Lampedusa, Italy on August 20, 2019. Photo by Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters

World Aug 20

Italy prosecutor orders evacuation of migrant rescue ship

By Colleen Barry, Aritz Parra, Associated Press

World Aug 20

Thousands detained during lockdown on Kashmir

By Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press

U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Nation Aug 20

3 women file lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein estate

By Larry Neumeister, Jim Mustian, Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the first meeting of the National Policing Board at the Home Office in London, Britain July 31, 2019. Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via Reuters

World Aug 20

UK and EU harden their positions on Brexit as G-7 nears

By Raf Casert, Danica Kirka, Associated Press

Nation Aug 20

Facebook launches tool that lets users block its data collection on other websites

By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a news conference on June 11, 2019. New York and two other states are suing the Trump administration over new immigration rules. Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters

Nation Aug 20

New York, 2 other states sue over Trump rule on immigrant benefits

By David Klepper, Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attends a session of the upper house of parliament over the ongoing government crisis, in Rome, Italy on August 20, 2019. Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters

World Aug 20

Italy’s prime minister resigns after losing party support

By Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows Khan Sheikhoun in the southern countryside of Idlib on March 16, 2015. Photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters

World Aug 20

Militants leave key rebel town as Syrian troops advance in Idlib

By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: An Afghan archeologist cleans a headless Buddha statue discovered inside an ancient temple in Mes Aynak, Logar province February 14, 2015. Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters

Arts Aug 20

Afghans restore art shattered by Taliban as peace deal nears

By Cara Anna, Associated Press

Politics Aug 20

Democrats are spending millions to take back state legislatures

By Brian Slodysko, Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, on August 10, 2019. Photo by Scott Morgan/Reuters

Politics Aug 20

As rivals head to California, Biden chooses New Hampshire

By Bill Barrow, Associated Press

U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Nation Aug 20

Epstein signed a will 2 days before jailhouse suicide

By Jim Mustian, Curt Anderson, Associated Press

Arts Aug 19

Why this description of the Chinese-American experience resonates with Celeste Ng

By Elizabeth Flock

World Aug 19

Twitter shutters Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests

By Tami Abdollah, Associated Press