JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: how funds from the federal G.I. Bill are flowing to for-profit schools, even though, all too frequently, veterans' prospects are not appreciably better after attending them. The for-profit college sector is under the microscope.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to the Middle East, where there has been a major escalation of tensions just in the last few hours. It follows days of unrest sparked by the deaths of three Israeli teens and a Palestinian teenager. Three Israeli suspects in the ki

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GWEN IFILL: Chicago is once again in the national spotlight for a level of gun-related violence that has pushed its homicide rate beyond New York and Los Angeles. The city has made some progress in cutting down the number of murders, but dozens of sh

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GWEN IFILL: President Obama is requesting $3.7 billion in emergency funds from Congress to deal with the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border. About half the money would be used on care for the more than 50,000 children who hav

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GWEN IFILL: Pernille Ironside of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, has been on the ground in Gaza since the conflict began. I spoke with her via Skype earlier today. Pernille Ironside, as you travel around in Gaza, tell us, what are you seeing? PERN

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GWEN IFILL: Now to a police shooting of a Missouri teenager that sparked racial tension, violence and looting in a Saint Louis suburb over the weekend. JEFFREY BROWN: It was all set in motion Saturday, when 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot repeated

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GWEN IFILL: Despite new pledges of aid, international leaders provided downbeat assessments of the current battle against Ebola. The head of the World Bank said the international community community had quote failed miserably in its initial response.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: He's written books about individuals who changed the game, from Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs. But in his latest work, The Innovators, Walter Isaacson pulls together a story about the group of creative minds

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And exactly two weeks from Election Day, and Georgia is a surprise place Democrats are suddenly hopeful about. The two major-party candidates running for the open Senate seat are first-time candidates, but both come from well-known pol

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The World Health Organization reported the Ebola outbreak is still racing well ahead of efforts to stop it. West Africa needs at least 4,000 more hospital beds and thousands more workers. In addition, the first case in Mali was confirm

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Next to the author of a new book on the costs, in lives and treasure, of the war on terror. JAMES RISEN, Author, Pay Any Price : The war or terror, the global war on terror has become essentially an endless war. It started with a searc

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MARTIN FLETCHER: When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of Jews applied for visas to anywhere. And among them, Paul Strnad and his wife Hedwig, nicknamed Hedy. Their best hope to save their lives was help from their cousin

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GWEN IFILL: Brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder are two well-known signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But there is another injury, lung disease, that afflicts tens of thousands of veterans. Many blame a single defense c

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, stopping the rapid rise of the Islamic State group by addressing a main engine driving the militants, money, a lot of it. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner explains. MARGARET WARNER: While media attention to the

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JUDY WOODRUFF: It's deadliest attack in Jerusalem since 2008. Four people were brutally murdered at a synagogue today, before their Palestinian attackers were shot dead. Later, an Israeli police officer died of his wounds. The attack built on growing

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GWEN IFILL: Now one of the nation's most famous veterans takes a look at American heroes from each of the nation's conflicts, most largely unknown, in a new book, Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War. The authors are Sen. John Mc

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HARI SREENIVASAN: During the past week, there have been at least three separate attacks launched by what are referred to as lone wolf terrorists, who are often inspired by propaganda from groups like ISIS. Last Monday in Quebec, a man who had convert

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GWEN IFILL: During President Obama's first term as commander in chief, his administration signaled a new priority in America's foreign policy, the so-called Asia pivot. But three years of multiple crises on other continents, and at home, have distrac

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HARI SREENIVASAN: On any given afternoon in Braddock Pennsylvania on the outskirts of Pittsburgh you'll find Drew Whitley in Stambolis Meat Shop helping to clean up. It's about all he can do now. He takes valium for an anxiety that is very real for h

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JOHN CARLOS FREY: Miguel Angel Gomez, a 30-year-old taxi driver here in El Salvador spends a lot of time looking in his rear-view mirror, worried that he'll be the next victim of a notoriously violent street gang that already murdered Miguel's brothe

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