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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND: His communist revolution outlasted 10 American presidencies and withstood half a century of American economic embargo. He survived numerous attempts to overthrow or assassinate him. He fought off one U.S.-backe
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight: America's dropout crisis. Each year, approximately one million students drop out of high school. That's roughly 7,000 every day. Tonight, the NewsHour kicks off American Graduate week, where we will go inside the nation's
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now questions about the ever-growing scope of Facebook's empire and social network, and whether the company is embracing enough responsibility for its reach. Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that they will add 3,000 more p
JUDY WOODRUFF: As Vice President Biden said earlier, innovations in genetics could be crucial to finding cures for diseases like cancer. One of the most significant developments in this field is the newly discovered ability to modify the very genes i
JEFFREY BROWN:Next, who's filling that summer job? NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at a program bringing in student workers from around the world. It's part of his ongoing reporting, Making Sense of financial news. EMMETT WOODS, Em
JEFFREY BROWN: Arizona officials today declared that Democratic House candidate Kyrsten Sinema won her race for the Ninth District, which means she will be the first openly bisexual person to serve in Congress. Her election follows some strong messag
GWEN IFILL: In the eight years since Apple unveiled its first smartphone, an entire generation of young users has spring up who never knew a world without a device in hand. That's the starting point for the latest addition to the NewsHour Bookshelf,
GWEN IFILL: Congress is on the verge of finally approving a rewrite of the education law known as No Child Left Behind. The Senate is expected to pass it easily tomorrow. The House did so last week, and the president is expected to sign it. It will g
RICK KARR: Malicious computer hackers are posing more and more of a threat to business and governmentand they will spend around 46 billion dollars this year to protect themselves from those hackers. Some computer security experts argue that in order
JEFFREY BROWN:And now to another in our series on the nation's high school dropout crisis, told this time through a different lens. Good teachers can help keep kids in school, but how can schools hold on to their top teachers? Hari is back with a rep
HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Scientists studying climate change in Antarctica reported this week that the hole in the protected ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere has shrunk. The discovery of the hole in the mid-1980s led to a wo
HARI SREENIVASAN: You may have seen the documentary Blackfish that examined the treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld Orlando. Now at the Miami Seaquarium, another controversy is brewing over a whale named Lolita. The National Oceanic and Atmospheri
JUDY WOODRUFF: As bad as circumstances are for people who can't find a job, there is a different, buttangible challenge for Americans who have work, but earn barely enough to get by. For them, as NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman reports, there is
JUDY WOODRUFF: This has been a notable week for the stock markets, particularly for the Dow Jones industrial average, the benchmark index that's closely monitored and that's reaching new milestones. But there are questions about what's behind the ral
JUDY WOODRUFF: Internet hackers dumped troves of personal information this week stolen from an adultery Web site, raising new questions about online privacy and the ability of Web sites to protect it. Hari Sreenivasan has our look. HARI SREENIVASAN:
JUDY WOODRUFF: There was another dramatic chapter in the Greek economic crisis this evening, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced to his nation that he's resigning. ALEXIS TSIPRAS, Greek Prime Minister (through translator): My fellow Greeks, I
GWEN IFILL: One last zinger, one last laugh, one last bow. Jon Stewart takes his leave of The Daily Show tonight. Jeffrey Brown has our look. JON STEWART, Host, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Whose team are we on in the Middle East? JEFFREY BROWN:
JUDY WOODRUFF: On Sunday, one of the founders of the Islamic Revolution in Iran died at age 82. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani helped to lead the 1979 uprising, and went on to serve both as the powerful speaker of the parliament and as Iran's president
HARI SREENIVASAN: How is it possible that we're sitting in Times Square? What happened here that you made you think you could build this? JANETTE SADIK-KHAN: Well, Times Square had been a tangle of traffic for almost 200 years, since it was first cre
HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Today, Turkey again deployed tanks inside Syria to target positions held by Islamic State militants. Twenty Turkish tanks backed by artillery entered northern Syria, about 35 miles from where Turkish for