JUDY WOODRUFF: We return to the events in Dallas and the violence involving police across the country this week. And we get the perspective of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. We also invited Donald Trump. He declined

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JUDY WOODRUFF: A deeper look now into one of president-elect Trump's key Cabinet picks today, and again to John Yang. JOHN YANG: One of those choices that immediately drew a lot of attention was his pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos. It sends

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According to a study published this week pollution of all kinds can be blamed for nine million premature deaths around the world every year. The study by the environmental nonprofit pure earth and published in The Lancet blamed air pollution for six

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And now to our NewsHour Shares. Seawalls help to protect developed shorelines, but they can also destroy crucial habitat. One project in Washington state aims to fix that. Ken Christensen of KCTS' EarthFix explains. The Seattle waterfront is changing

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People gathered across the country for a historic event today, a total eclipse of the sun in a 70 mile- wide band, crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. With special eyeglasses or homemade boxes, tens of millions looked to the sky to witn

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HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: The Greek government has begun a pilot program to educate refugee children stranded in the country, because nations along the migrant trail to Northern Europe have closed their borders. It is estimated there are more than

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a look at how required math classes may factor into the academic success or failure of high school and college students. Hari Sreenivasan has the story as part of our weekly education series, Making the Grade. ANDREW HACKER, Author

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Houston is an industrial city, central to the nation's oil and gas industry, and home to one of the busiest ports in the country. It's also home to more than a dozen of the 41 superfund sites in Texas. Those are areas contaminated with toxic waste th

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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

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But first: the dangers of domestic terrorism, extremism and efforts to counter its use of social media. The attack in Charlottesville underscored just how real this is. As Miles O'Brien explains, experts who study the psychological and technological

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Big changes are coming to an American tradition, the Boy Scouts. The Scouting board voted unanimously today to admit girls into the century-old program, and to permit them to earn the coveted rank of Eagle Scout. John Yang has more. Thanks, Judy. Beg

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Now: how our increasingly wireless world is affecting our social behavior, especially among the generation that has grown up with smartphones. William Brangham has that. The promise of social media, as the name implies, is that it connects us to each

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