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Watch Video | Listen to the Audio  JUDY WOODRUFF: Now the debate over cutting food stamps. The Senate agreed today to move forward with a vote next Monday on a wide-ranging farm bill. More than three-quarters of the money for it, or about $760...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And now to the continuing debate over the government's role in the economy and the decisions taken in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Earlier this week, we aired a conversation with David...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: Finally tonight, we mark June 6, D-Day. Ray is back with book conversation he recorded recently about World War II. RAY SUAREZ: The war that had a hand in cementing U.S. status as a superpower and...
Watch Video Watch a debate over the NSA's program of collecting phone records, which aired on the May 12, 2006, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Under a top-secret court order issued using a provision of the Patriot Act, the United States government has...
Myrlie Evers-Williams, Samantha Power, Michelle Obama and Susan Rice -- unwavering women who all drew headlines this week. Four women who dominated headlines this week could not be more different from one another. But each one, we are told,...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight: doling out history lessons on Twitter. Gwen Ifill has that. GWEN IFILL: NewsHour regular Michael Beschloss has written eight books and countless commentaries on the...