GWEN IFILL: And Miles joins me now.What is the latest on this feathering device that you talked about in that piece? MILES O'BRIEN: Well, the idea with the feathering device is that you should never deploy it going up and you should always deploy it

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HARI SREENIVASAN: This week marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. And here in New York City, the recovery has been very uneven. It's something that photographer Nathan Kensiger has documented in a series of photo essays for the website, C

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GWEN IFILL: Early voting has already begun in key states that could determine the balance of the Senate and the direction the nation may be heading in the final two years of the Obama presidency. One of those states is North Carolina, where a Democra

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GWEN IFILL: As worries grow about technology, surveillance and privacy, it turns out the government is watching your snail mail too. A new report from The New York Times finds the U.S. Postal Service approved nearly 50,000 requests from law enforceme

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And in North Carolina, the libertarian on the ballot could help tip the result. Across the country, in at least 10 races, both parties are wondering what effect independent and third-party candidates will have. Where do they have a cha

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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Dr. Richard Flyer has been my family's pediatrician for thirteen years, and to be totally honest: I love the guy. I admire him and I trust him. But three years ago when my son, Jack was ten Flyer said something that floored us. He t

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JUDY WOODRUFF: We now turn to two longtime Palestinian-Israeli watchers. Dennis Ross was a U.S. diplomat and Middle East envoy who served in the George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations. He's now a counselor at the Washington Institute for

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GWEN IFILL: In a vote on the Senate floor last night, lawmakers blocked a bill that would have drastically changed the way the National Security Agency currently monitors American citizens. MAN: On this vote, the yeas are 58, the nays are 42. GWEN IF

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GWEN IFILL: Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office, as efforts at comprehensive immigration reform have fallen by the wayside in Congress. Today, the White House announced the president h

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WILLIAM BRANGHAM, PBS NEWSHOUR ANCHOR: We're turning now to the threat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Just a few months ago, some U.S. officials worried that ISIS fighters could actually overtake Baghdad, but there are new signs of confidence in the figh

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ALISON STEWART: Experts expect tomorrow's so-called Cyber Monday sales to see an uptick over last year, but will it be enough for businesses to consider the extended shopping weekend a success? For some insight, we're joined now by Shelly Banjo of Th

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JUDY WOODRUFF: When writing in social media, like Facebook, what is defined as a threat and what is protected by free speech? That was the question at the center of a case before the Supreme Court today. Jeffrey Brown has the story. And a warning: Th

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The fallout from Ferguson took center stage at the White House today, with President Obama calling for some $260 million in federal response funds. It includes buying 50,000 body cameras to record police actions. Ferguson officer Darre

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GWEN IFILL: Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Peggy Young, a former UPS driver who says the company discriminated against her when she was pregnant. UPS placed Young on unpaid leave for several months because she was unable to p

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JUDY WOODRUFF: For the first time in more than four decades, NASA is set to launch a space capsule tomorrow that has grander plans of human exploration into deep space. This time, the Orion spacecraft will be unmanned. But it is an important test fli

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GWEN IFILL: In two cases, in two cities, in less than two weeks, two grand juries declined to indict white police officers accused of killing unarmed black men. But in today's case, in New York, it was on tape. Hari Sreenivasan has more on the case o

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GWEN IFILL: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state of the nation speech today. Defiant in the face of international sanctions, he boasted of his country's incursions into Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, reiterating that it

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JUDY WOODRUFF: We take a closer look now at the world's surging refugee problem, which the United Nations point person on the issue calls a mega-crisis. He spoke to chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner earlier today. MARGARET WARNER: F

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GWEN IFILL: The U.S. military, under heavy fire in recent years over its handling of sexual assaults, released its latest report today on how it's managing the problem, drawing criticism from some. Hari Sreenivasan has the story. CHUCK HAGEL, Secreta

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GWEN IFILL: Racial tensions and police use of force dominated the nation's agenda today, after the latest high-profile case involving a white officer and a black victim. This time, it happened in New York. But new calls for calm and new cries of ange

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