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"Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could've extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color," writer Ta-Nehisi Coates told Congress. "But America had other principles in mind"
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BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vote on the second charge (obstruction of Congress) was 229-198, and one member voting present.
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Congratulations to our White House correspondent @Yamiche for receiving the 2020 NABJ Journalist of the Year award.
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Comparison: President Trump and Barack Obama’s #Inauguration crowds #DayOne
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WATCH: "I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living" said Down syndrome advocate Frank Stephens to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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WATCH: @Yamiche asked the president about a reorganization of the National Security Council that dismantled a key pandemics team in 2018. President Trump: "I just think it's a nasty question... You say we did that, I don't know anything about it."
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Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has been caught up in a political storm for several weeks. @GeoffRBennett spoke with Khan earlier today from his residence in Lahore.
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A federal judge has ordered that DACA — a program that protects migrants brought to the U.S. illegally, as children, from deportation — be restored. The judge says the Department of Homeland Security must resume accepting requests for DACA status immediately.
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Without national attention, my son’s death would have been a coverup, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother tells @yamiche
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Gwen Ifill, who was co-anchor & managing editor of the PBS NewsHour until her death in November, 2016, posthumously received the highest professional honor awarded by The Society of Professional Journalists for her extraordinary contribution to the profession of journalism. (1/2)
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The gruesome discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. @IAmAmnaNawaz reports.
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"John and I had our disagreements, of course. But in the America John Lewis fought for, and the America I believe in, differences of opinion are inevitable elements and evidence of democracy in action." — Former President George W. Bush
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Saturday marks four years since the passing of Gwen Ifill. "As we come close to the end of a busy year of news, we like to think that she's looking over our shoulder and smiling," @JudyWoodruff says in remembering her friend and co-anchor.
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Court records show Donald Trump was aware of efforts to keep a porn star and a Playboy centerfold silent in the days leading up to the 2016 election.
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WATCH: Sen. Mitt Romney announces that he will vote to convict President Trump. "The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust," the Utah Republican said in his floor speech. More: #ImpeachmentPBS
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WATCH: @PBS @NewsHour White House correspondent @Yamiche Alcindor today at a WH news conference asked @realdonaldtrump whether calling himself a nationalist on the campaign trail has been emboldening white nationalists. President Trump replied, "That's such a racist question."
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Sen. Harris demands to know what DOJ rule allows Sessions to refuse to answer questions. Wants to see it in writing. #sessionshearing
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"If there wasn't such acute hatred for President Trump, such a 'Trump derangement syndrome' on the left...," a meeting with a Russian leader could have happened sooner says Sen. @randpaul . The blow back from the meeting, "really shows people hatred for President Trump."
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"This is a moment for Americans to show our best qualities." — @JudyWoodruff , in closing tonight's PBS NewsHour
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. @Yamiche : "Black unemployment went up by 0.1%, Asian American unemployment went up by 0.5% how is that a victory?" President Trump: "You are something else."
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"President Joe Biden is the right man for this moment. Vice President Kamala Harris is reflective of so much progress that we have made. And I think, as a team, they are going to lead a renewal of our democracy," says @staceyabrams .
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WATCH: Amanda Gorman, the youngest #inauguration poet in memory, reads “The Hill We Climb”
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Fourteen-year-old Heman Bekele spent the last year developing a bar of soap that could treat skin cancer. @johnyangtv talks with Bekele for more.
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WATCH LIVE: Celebrations on Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. after Joe Biden declared winner
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The current Marine Corps commandant is required to retire on Monday, but due to a hold on hundreds of military promotions by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, there is no confirmed replacement. If this continues, other branches will face the same problem soon.
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Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has defeated Republican Calvin Wimbish for a Florida U.S. House seat, making him the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress.
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WATCH: During an event with Team USA Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, President Trump said, "What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it's a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could."
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"They deprived me of a childhood that I never had. Yes, I’m angry," says Holocaust survivor Reva Kibort. "But, at the same time, I'm also very happy that I'm here in America and for the opportunities that I had." #BriefButSpectacular #HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2019
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The Charlie Brown Christmas and Thanksgiving specials will return to broadcast television air after a deal with PBS.
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NEW: We spoke to 74 former Joe Biden staffers, most of whom were women, to get a broader picture of: • his behavior toward women throughout his career • how they see Tara Reade’s allegation • whether there was evidence of a larger pattern
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“This is no longer just about the crazy stuff he says and does that everybody shrugs at or worries about,” @HillaryClinton said of President Trump. “This is a direct threat to the national security of America.”
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With heavy hearts we report the death of PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer at age 85. A giant in journalism, his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news remain the core of our work.
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"There is a vast machine set up to silence these women," @RonanFarrow says of how allegations against Harvey Weinstein were kept quiet.
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Trudeau says Canada will take refugees banned by U.S.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria. She told @JudyWoodruff the move was a “betrayal” of Kurdish allies and would lead to a “resurgence of militancy” in the region.
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"We're not saying that climate change is literally causing the events to occur. What we can conclude, with a great deal of confidence now, is that climate change is making these events more extreme," @MichaelEMann says of events like droughts, heatwaves and fires taking place now
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Our White House correspondent @Yamiche today was named the recipient of the @RTDNA John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award.
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What we're seeing from the president is really a flood of misinformation, @Yamiche reports.
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Railroad Park in Queens, a 16-acre natural area that’s home to migratory birds, will be known as Gwen Ifill Park.
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller's main point last week? His report speaks for itself. But the dense report is 448 pages long, and you may not have time to read it. @WmBrangham and @LisaDNews are your guides through key parts of the report, starting tonight.
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"This trial is not born from hatred, far from it. It's born from love of country -- our country, our desire to maintain it, our desire to see America at its best," says Rep. Neguse during closing arguments of former President Trump's second impeachment trial.
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NEW: The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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"She not only informed today's citizens, but she also inspired tomorrow's journalists," @POTUS says of Gwen Ifill.
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“[The children] did not have shoes or blankets in the detention center, and there were people in the cells that had to sleep standing up. They did not have enough to eat...." READ about the bleak picture of #familyseparation via @TwitterMoments
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Amid the alarming images of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of people have also seen misleading, manipulated or false information about the conflict on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Telegram. ( @ConversationUS )
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“In our regular lives, I think the word we would use is lie. So, I think we as journalists should use it in our articles as well,” says the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale, of reporting on the president’s false claims
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The current Marine Corps commandant is required to retire on Monday, but due to a hold on hundreds of military promotions by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, there is no confirmed replacement. If this continues, other branches will face the same problem soon.
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. @TorontoStar 's @ddale8 told @NewsHour that when he's fact-checking President Trump and it's clear he has "simply fabricated something," Dale is comfortable calling it a lie.
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"No campaign, no politician, no political party, no candidate is going to stop the count here in Michigan. We are committed to getting this right," says Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's Secretary of State. #Election2020
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed off on a two-year spending plan Wednesday after gutting a Republican tax cut and using his broad veto powers to increase school funding for centuries.
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. @WmBrangham : The sense of urgency around climate change is not as intense as you feel it ought to be. Why? @GretaThunberg , in part: "Humans are social animals. We follow the stream ... I'm on the autism spectrum and I don't usually follow social 'coding.' ... I go my own way."
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Today marks one year without Gwen. We miss her every day. #RememberingGwen
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Prince Harry’s lawyer leveled explosive new allegations Wednesday that Rupert Murdoch was aware of cover-ups at his British tabloids that used unlawful techniques to spy on the Duke of Sussex and others.
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Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who was convicted of fraud and campaign finance crimes in 2021, said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump and his allies had lied about President Joe Biden and his family’s ties to corruption in Ukraine to gain an advantage…
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WATCH: Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan says she is "insulted" over Rep. Doug Collins' suggestion that she wouldn't care about the facts surrounding the impeachment inquiry. #ImpeachmentPBS More:
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It is with heavy hearts that we share that our dear friend and beloved colleague Gwen Ifill has passed away.
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“It's clear that Bob Mueller found substantial evidence of obstruction,” says @PreetBharara
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WATCH: @SenKamalaHarris : "Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone?" Attorney General William Barr: "I'm trying to grapple with the word 'suggest.' ... They have not asked me to open an investigation..."
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A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Trump.
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"The president is not at all involved in these COVID negotiations. He's not at all involved in selling the American people on the idea that the vaccine is safe. Instead, what the president's doing is tweeting," says @Yamiche .
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'The unemployment rate does not illustrate the lived experience of any of the Americans I'm talking to on the trail. The fact is millions of Americans have dropped out of the workforce,' Democratic presidential candidate @AndrewYang tells @Yamiche .
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Iowa’s state auditor has again called for Gov. Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay for 21 governor’s office staff members for three months in 2020.
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President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples.
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Civil rights figure Juanita Abernathy has died. Behind the scenes, she wrote the plan for the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. She was 88 years old.
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Democrat Joe Biden has won Nevada, adding to his Electoral College victory over President Trump.
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Heman Bekele spent the last year developing a bar of soap that could treat skin cancer. It was the winning entry at the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge, considered one of the top science and engineering competitions for fifth through eighth graders.
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Gwen Ifill, the @NewsHour 's beloved former co-anchor, is being commemorated by the USPS with her own Forever stamp. USPS celebrated the release of the stamp in a dedication ceremony at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
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WATCH LIVE: Pence holds campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona
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NEW: House passes $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid Package, the largest economic stimulus legislation in U.S. history. The bill is expected to grant around $1,200 direct payments to individuals.
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WATCH: President-elect Joe Biden calls for a national minimum wage of $15 an hour. "No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line," he explains.
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WATCH: @Yamiche asks President Trump about his calls for Russia to rejoin the G-7, what the political impact might be and why he repeats a misleading statement that "Putin outsmarted" former President Obama.
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Congratulations to our anchor & managing editor @JudyWoodruff who has been named the recipient of @TheEmmys ’ Lifetime Achievement Award in Television News! #EmmyIcons
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"If you only hear one side of the story, at some point you have to question who the writer is," @ClintSmithIII tells us #BriefButSpectacular
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"The president spent much of today angrily watching TV" and watching his path to re-election shrink, @Yamiche reports. Here is his campaign's plan.
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“The World Health Organization put together a test kit; 60 countries accepted it. America decide to go its own way and not follow the WHO test kit,” says @ashishkjha
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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, and Louie Gohmert are believed to have been involved in the planning of the Jan. 6 protest that result in violence at the U.S. Capitol.
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Sen. Warren raised $24.6 million over the past three months, relying largely on a massive small donor operation to solidify her status as a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Research suggests that covering all of California’s canals with solar panels could save up to 63 billion gallons of water and generate 13 gigawatts of renewable power annually.
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Jill Biden at the Democratic National Convention: "How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole — with love and understanding, and with small acts of kindness, with bravery, with unwavering faith."
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We’re saddened to share that Robert MacNeil, a driving force behind the show that would become the NewsHour on PBS, died Friday at the age of 93. A lifelong lover of language, literature and the arts, MacNeil’s trade was using words. Combined with his reporter’s knack for being…
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WATCH LIVE: Pence speaks at campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin
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"My predecessor failed the most basic presidential duty that he owes to the American people — the duty to care," President Joe Biden says while addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. "I think that's unforgivable."
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The U.S. is warning nearly 100 countries that Russian intelligence is opening a new front in its efforts to destabilize democracies by amplifying doubts about the legitimacy of vote-counting and elections, senior government officials said Friday.
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"The president remains angry, isolated and unwilling to acknowledge that Joe Biden is, in fact, the president-elect," @Yamiche reports. She notes that "this is the longest period of time the president has not spoken publicly in his entire presidency."
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A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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WATCH: "Hamas is not the Palestinian people," U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tells @nickschifrin . "These are separate entities, and so I do not think that the people should pay the price."
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Mohamed Bzeek takes on a mission that few would consider: being a foster parent who cares only for terminally ill kids. @gaylelemmon reports
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On the eve of his #Inauguration , President-elect Donald Trump is in the nation's capital. @johnyangtv reports on the day's events #PBSNews
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BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden wins the election and will become 46th president of the United States, the Associated Press reports. More: #Election2020
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"We will get back to a world, I hope, where people appreciate when a group like public health officials have devoted their lives to the safety and the health of the American public," Dr. Anthony Fauci tells Judy Woodruff.
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TONIGHT: @JudyWoodruff interviews @BernieSanders about the COVID-19 pandemic and his presidential campaign. Watch at 6 p.m. Eastern: 💻 Online at 📺 On your local @PBS station:
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As much as $273,000,000 in federal coronavirus aid was awarded to more than 100 companies that are owned or operated by major donors to President Donald Trump’s election efforts.
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John Boyd, the head of the National Association of Black Farmers, calls on Sen. Graham to apologize for referring to relief money from the American Rescue Plan as “reparations.”
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