JEFFREY BROWN:Yes, taxes are due on Monday. And, yes, once again, tax reform is in the air. It's been more than a quarter-century since the last overhaul, and now President Obama and key leaders in both parties say they'd like to work on simplifying

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KWAME HOLMAN: Detroit declared bankruptcy today, the largest American city ever to do so. The city's state-appointed emergency manager made the filing with a federal judge. It would let him liquidate assets in a bid to pay off creditors and city pens

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The giant retailer Target confirmed today that hackers stole encrypted pin numbers during a major data breach that began at Thanksgiving. Some 40 million accounts are potentially affected. Target said it believes the encryption will ke

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JEFFREY BROWN: Now, mining technology to solve the world's problems. NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman recently traveled to California and filed this report on someinnovative thinkers. It's part of his ongoing reporting Making Sense of fin

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GWEN IFILL: Today marks 50 years since the United States declared a war on poverty, but victory has not yet been declared. Kwame Holman has the backstory. KWAME HOLMAN: When President Lyndon Johnson took the stage for his first State of the Union add

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HARI SREENIVASAN: As you no doubt know, gas prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks. According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of regular was $3.52 in late July. Now, less three months later, it's $3.12. For more, we are joined now by Isaac

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GWEN IFILL: Now to the political power struggle over legislation to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which landed today on the president's desk and was promptly vetoed. The president chose to carry out the veto in private, out of the glare of cameras,

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JUDY WOODRUFF: One recent spike in broadband usage is music. When you want to listen to a song today, you don't have to buy a copy or even download it anymore. Increasingly, you stream it. And that has led to a profound shift in the industry that is

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HARI SREENIVASAN: It's an eventful day and a humbling one for the electronic giant Samsung, the world's largest maker of smartphones. Today, the company announced that it is halting production of its beleaguered Galaxy Note 7 phone. Reports of the No

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: For some perspective on the immigration raids, I'm joined from Miami by USA Today immigration reporter Alan Gomez. The immigration community calls them raids. ICE wants to call them planned enforcements.

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: One federal appeals court has weighed in on the Trump administration's immigration ban, and should another appeals court in another region of the country offer a competing view, that could set the debate

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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Roszke, Hungary sits right at this nation's border with Serbia. Here one week ago we wade into the river of refugees flowing from the Middle East to Western Europe. We meet our share of Iraqis, Afghans, North Africans, but most of t

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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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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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JEFFREY BROWN: Now the story of a Catholic priest's journey as a doctor ministering through 25 years of Haiti's recent history.Fred De Sam Lazaro has the latest in our Agents for Change series. A version of this report aired on the PBS program Religi

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Now to Egypt. Among the demonstrators who jam Tahrir Square every day are hundreds of women. They face a very disturbing threat from gangs of men who sexually assault female protesters. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News

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RAY SUAREZ:More about this technology, the man behind the project and the questions this all raises from Andy Greenberg of Forbes. He's been covering this story and was in Austin when Cody Wilson first tested the gun. And, Andy, now that this thresho

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JUDY WOODRUFF:And we return to today's Supreme Court arguments involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act with a debate of our own. Supporting the law is Ken Klukowski. He's the director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research C

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RICK KARR: Portland, Ore., is at the vanguard of the war to reduce gasoline consumption. You can find evidence all over its downtown area ... and at its car dealerships. EARL BLUMENAUER: We're looking at hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric cars. There

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The death of Nelson Mandela resonated across South Africa and around the world today. Millions mourned the former president and symbol of racial reconciliation. And officials planned a mass memorial service on Tuesday. We begin our cov

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