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Hunt for alien life zooms in on newly discovered solar system
Astronomers have identified seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a star that's just a mere 230 trillion miles from our own planet, raising the tantalizing prospect of life in a solar system beyond our own. Science correspondent Miles...
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Irresistible to tourists, has Venice become unwelcoming to its inhabitants?
Venice has long been a city of trade and travelers, but Venetians now feel tourism is squeezing them out. The city is currently losing about 1,000 residents every year as the cost of housing rises and mass tourism poses a threat to food,...
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Stand up for it
Only 14 percent of engineers in the U.S. are women and just a fraction of that are Native American. April Walker, a Native American engineer in Fargo, North Dakota, gets beyond the numbers by focusing on the technical skills and...
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Rebuilding a Chicago neighborhood thru connections to Muslim community
The South Side of Chicago has long been plagued with some of the highest crime rates in the nation, but a man of faith is trying to transform the area by focusing on the everyday needs of those who live there. Jeffrey Brown visits the...
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Fighting for fresh water amid climate change in the Marshall Is. (WEEKEND)
President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, rejecting that wealthier nations, which have the biggest carbon footprints, should help poorer nations vulnerable to climate changes. One such...
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To control kids' asthma, this program clears the air at home
For most of the roughly 25 million people in the U.S. with asthma, the disease can be controlled. But uncontrolled asthma can lead to expensive medical interventions. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on a California program that...
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Veteran graffiti artist RISK on his evolving art form
"For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist RISK has made the world his canvas, creating colorful murals on everything from highway overpasses -- known ..."
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Take a 360 tour of President Lincoln's summer retreat
Like many presidents before him, President Donald Trump spent part of the summer away from the White House, taking a 17-day Òworking vacationÓ at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. President Abraham Lincoln could relate. To get...
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Can students return a billion oysters to NY harbor
Oysters were once abundant in New York City, but decades of over-harvesting and pollution led to their near-extinction there. Now, an education initiative called the Billion Oyster Project teaches public school students how to help bring...
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Why this poet couldnât avoid writing about the opioid crisis
The opioid crisis has plagued poet William Brewerâs hometown in West Virginia. His vivid poems tell the story of the opioid epidemic from different voices and depict the sense of bewilderment people find themselves in as addiction...
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When we talk about North Korea, we forget whatâs happening to its people
When Min Jin Lee sees the latest headlines about nuclear weapons in North Korea, she thinks of her father, who fled the republic when he was 16, and lost touch with his family. And Lee thinks of not just the remains of her family still...
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Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers
At the tip of Cape Cod, the iconic summer getaway Provincetown has a small year-round population that swells when the weather gets nice, welcoming an estimated 4 to 5 million tourists every year. Businesses there depend on foreign...
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As Venezuela's economy plummets, mass exodus to ensues (WEEKEND)
Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuelaâs economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing across the border to Colombia. With support from the Pulitzer...
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Long open to refugees, hostilities toward newcomers is growing in Uganda
Nearly 600,000 refugees have entered Uganda since July, fleeing violence and war in neighboring South Sudan, and the flow continues unabated. The overwhelming numbers are straining relief efforts and inciting tensions between newcomers...
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One of the biggest icebergs ever just broke off Antarctica. Here̥s what scientists want to know
A huge iceberg -- twice as large as Lake Erie -- has broken away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, an event that researchers have been anticipating for months. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien joins Judy Woodruff to discuss...
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Can Rhode Island's paid family leave be a national model? (WEEKEND)
In 1993, former President Bill Clinton signed into law the Family and Medical Leave Act, granting unpaid family leave to millions in the U.S. Decades later, the country has yet to implement a paid family leave policy -- but some states...
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Self-empowerment is sweet for diabetes patients in innovative program
Empowering diabetes patients to feel like they can change their health is the goal of Project Dulce, an innovative program in San Diego that has been held up as a national model. It combines peer counseling, guidance from physicians and...
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The 'thrill of the chase' in perpetuating fake news
This election cycle saw its fair share of so-called "fake news." On December 4, an armed man walked into a Washington, DC, pizza joint, claiming he needed to investigate a story he had heard: that Hillary Clinton and her former campaign...
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Some Iraqi forces wage campaign of punishment against ISIS sympathizers
As the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State nears its end, a new campaign of revenge and retribution is underway by Iraqi forces against those suspected of fighting for or aiding the militant group. Human rights organizations...
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To improve patients' diets, the doctor is in the kitchen
More and more primary care doctors are using the kitchen as the place to prescribe a powerful medicine: healthy food. With poor diets linked to many deaths from preventable diseases, research has found that changing diet and becoming...
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A feast of African-American culinary contributions, baked into the South's DNA
In chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty's new book, ancestry -- both his own and that of Southern food -- is a central theme. With "The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary History in the Old South," Twitty...
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The shifting history of Confederate monuments
The backdrop of Saturday's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, was a plan to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the city's downtown. What̥s the story behind such monuments and why do we continue to struggle with...
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In city with few health care options, this firehouse answers the call
In the city of Hayward, California, options for health care are limited. But officials there came up with an innovative solution: integrating a new fire station with medical services to take advantage of its prime location and other...
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Retired house members discuss the challenges of partisanship
As President Donald Trump begins his first days in office, he joins a Congress that has been divided by partisanship in recent years. The NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson sat down with two recently retired members of the House of...