ZACHARY GREEN: At Singapore's Changi airport, friends and relatives gathered to await news about AirAsia flight 8501, which disappeared early this morning. Among those waiting: the fiance of a young man who had been traveling with relatives. FIANCE:

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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: 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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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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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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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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JUDY WOODRUFF: A coalition of groups opposing same-sex marriage rallied in Washington today outside the U.S. Capitol, marching to the Supreme Court in support of marriage between one man and one woman. This comes just days after the Obama administrat

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The latest government jobs report shows the American labor market moving into its strongest hiring pace in years. Employers added 217,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate remained at 6.3 percent, its lowest level since Septem

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In the White House Rose Garden today, President Obama declared 2014 a pivotal year in the march toward pulling nearly all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: At the beginning of 2015, we will have approximately

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HARI SREENIVASAN: And to the analysis of Shields and Gerson. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson. David Brooks is away today. So, let's start talking first, on the politics side, elections, May 20, bi

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HARI SREENIVASAN: So how different is the U.S. system versus the Dutch system? JUSTIN FOX: Well, the U.S. system started out after World War II a bit like the Dutch system -- it was corporations providing pensions for people. And that kind of fell ap

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GWEN IFILL: Now we look at how the Supreme Court's rulings on same-sex marriage are being interpreted across the country. Ray Suarez has our story. RAY SUAREZ: The June decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 didn't en

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke will step down at the end of his term next January, but the discussion of who President Obama might tap to replace him is already well under way. To update us, we turn to longtime Fed-watcher

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In Egypt today, thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters protested against the military ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. But this time, there was no violence. Crowds massed in several cities after Friday prayers, waving flags and chanting slogan

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GWEN IFILL:Wall Street was down sharply today on worries about corporate earnings and a slowdown in China. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 176 points to close at 16,197. The Nasdaq fell 24 points to close below 4,219. The state of Virgin

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, we update the situation in Haiti, four years after it was hit by a catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people. Efforts to rebuild the poverty-stricken island were led by the United Nations. But in a c

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JUDY WOODRUFF: As secretary of defense for both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama, Robert Gates oversaw critical moments in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He would emotionally address the troops in the field, but back home showed a stoic public fac

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RAY SUAREZ: Get close enough to downtown Austin, Texas, and it's not hard to hear why it's called the live music capital of the world. Get a little closer, and the musicians themselves tell a quieter story. That's John Pointer on stage now at Antone'

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JEFFREY BROWN:And we return to the battle over emergency contraception, the so-called morning after pill. It's been more than a decade since the pill was first approved by the FDA, but legal and political controversy has swirled ever since. In 2011,

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GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight: how technology has changed the foods we eat. Hari Sreenivasan has our book conversation. HARI SREENIVASAN:Human eating habits have changed more in the past century than in the previous 10,000 years. In the U.S., Americans

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