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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Joe Crowley started the day Tuesday on a short list of Democrats who could someday be speaker of the House. By the end of the day, he had lost his primary to a 28-year-old first-time candidate. She is a Democratic socialist n

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Workers are grieving the deaths of eight colleagues killed in a mass shooting at a beer distribution company in Manchester, Connecticut this morning. Police say the gunman, also an employee of Hartford Distributors, opened fire before he killed himse

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Boys In The Band opened off-Broadway 50 years ago. Since then, the play has been lionized as a groundbreaking portrayal of gay life in the 1960s. But it's also been criticized for depicting attitudes that run counter to the cur

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An Internet video supposedly showing missing Iranian nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri Share This A man who Iran claims is a missing nuclear scientist has turned up at the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington. Pakistani fore

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JUDY WOODRUFF: We take a closer look now with P.J. Crowley. He's a former assistant secretary of state for public affairs during the Obama administration. He also had a 26-year career in the U.S. Air Force. And David Kramer, former assistant secretar