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Full NewsHour Broadcast from October 21, 2018

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Oct 21, 2018 7:27 PM EDT

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On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 21, Nebraskans and other red states will vote in November on the expansion of Medicaid, and Utah draws fans to the annual Moab Music Festival. Also, a documentary tells the journey of three women forced into military sex slavery during the Second World War. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

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President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania. Photo by Leah Millis/Reuters

WATCH LIVE: Trump campaigns for Ted Cruz in Texas

By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

Nonprofit helping low-income patients describes itself as ‘Match.com meets the Peace Corps’

By Cat Wise

This leather substitute is grown in a New Jersey lab

By Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo, Christopher Booker

What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use

By Miles O'Brien

World needs to make near-revolutionary change to avoid imminent climate disaster. Is there hope?

Will the traditions of tiny Tangier Island survive or sink?

By John Yang

Tiny Easter Island deals with giant trash problem

By Jeffrey Brown, Mike Fritz

Will climate change turn Miami into a ‘future Atlantis’?

By Miles O'Brien

For the first time in 55 years, a woman shares the Nobel prize in physics

Why it will take more than basic recycling to cut back on plastic

By Amna Nawaz, Lorna Baldwin

Plastic lasts more than a lifetime, and that’s the problem

By Amna Nawaz, Lorna Baldwin

Scientists study the impact of hidden plastic to curb pollution

By PBS NewsHour

How a warming world may have caused Hurricane Florence to stall

By Miles O'Brien

Florence evacuation orders continue as the Carolinas face flooding

By PBS NewsHour

Are insurers prepared to cover damage from Florence?

By PBS NewsHour

How climate change is ‘loading the dice’ for more perilous hurricanes

Amazon forest guardians fight to prevent catastrophic tipping point

Flying into hurricanes, scientists search for more certainty

By Miles O'Brien

Urban wildfires bring lingering worries about what’s in the ash and air

By Cat Wise

Global marches and events demand state and local leaders act on climate change

By PBS NewsHour

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Son of Brazil’s election front-runner says top court could be closed, setting off alarm

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

"I voted" stickers are displayed at a voting station. Photo by Tommy Martino/Reuters

Politics Oct 22

Arkansas Democrat was left off one county’s ballot as early voting began

By Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press

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World Oct 22

What we know about the latest migrant caravan traveling through Mexico

By Larisa Epatko, Joshua Barajas

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Nation Oct 22

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By Jessica Villagomez

Poetry Oct 22

A journalist’s death by a repressive government, remembered in verse

By Lora Strum

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Politics Oct 22

WATCH LIVE: Trump campaigns for Ted Cruz in Texas

By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

Nation Oct 22

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By Steve Douglas, Associated Press

World Oct 22

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By Associated Press

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By Dr. Howard Markel

Nation Oct 22

Reported Trump plan targeting transgender people sparks fury

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

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Politics Oct 22

WATCH: Obama says Republicans sow divisions in the U.S.

By Associated Press

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By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press

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Politics Oct 22

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By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

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Politics Oct 22

AP fact check: Trump on migrants, Saudis, and the Hispanic vote

By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press

A 1944 photo of American writer and war correspondent Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961). Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images

Arts Oct 22

2 rarely seen Hemingway stories will be published next year

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

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World Oct 22

‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Willa aims for Mexico’s western coast

By Maria Verza, Associated Press

Honduran migrants, part of a caravan trying to reach the U.S., storm a border checkpoint to cross into Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala October 19, 2018. Photo by REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

World Oct 22

Trump says he’s reducing Central American aid over migrants

By Associated Press

Politics Oct 21

GOP risks messy leadership struggle after November vote

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

World Oct 21

Turkey to reveal details of probe into Khashoggi’s killing

By Christopher Torchia, Zeynep Bilginsoy, Associated Press

Science Oct 21

America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing – even though the law says the government is supposed to preserve it

By Keith Kintigh, The Conversation