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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...
Minneapolis photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of the mentally ill confined in the prison system."Trapped," a project by...
Watch Video In a web exclusive interview, author Rick Atkinson talks with PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez about what went into writing his latest book, "The Guns at Last Light." Watch the full interview on Thursday's broadcast of the...