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Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan an arctic cold wave still dominates the nations weather tonight. Its blamed for several deaths, a...

Work to do if they are going to end their one day series with another win over australia. Joe root was the only man past 50. Susan has the weather. Good morning. Theres a lot of cloud sitting across the British Isles today. Fingers crossed there will be a few breaks this afternoon. Ona will be a few breaks this afternoon. On a positive note, a very mild day. Thanks, susan, see you later. Good morning. First, our main story. Police are hunting for a man who is believed to have fled the scene afte...

Against Marin Chilich in the Australian Open final, taking it 6 2. The swiss is on course for his sixth title at the event which would equal the record of Novak Djokovic in melbourne. It would also be a record extending 20th grand slam at the age of 36. It is now 3 3 in the second set. You can follow that match and get commentary on the bbc sport website and five live sorts extra. Highlights are on bbc two at one oclock this afternoon. Australia are going well as they chase 260 to beat england i...

Discuss those experiences and much more all chronicled in her new more of the story, a reporters journey. The book covers the full span of judys long accomplished career in journalism nearly three decades of which are with the New York Times. She joined the papers Washington Bureau in 1977 as and spent the mid 1980s abroad and Carolyn Parrish returned to washington to serve as an editor. Stories about Osama Bin Laden and al qaeda that she and a small team of others did in 2,001 four command imme...

Uniform to the Veterans Administration is as seamless as possible and i think we owe them that. One last question general. Your predecessor, general dempsey, stated repeatedly, and i am quoting we have the capability to use a military option if the iranians choose to stray off the diplomatic path end quote. My question to you is are you satisfied our nation has done enough to prepare militarily for the option and the president has said all options should be on the table if necessary to use a mil...

Evolved, because theres such a rich history and what you see and hope for moving forward. I was talking to tim about this earlier coming in. So the print, i want to say the print is the median age is probablily early 60s. We Just Launched a new website the main demographic at thenation. Com is 25 to 34. The continuity in change, the ability to bring people in and i mean, i want subscribers who are 105 and i want readers who are 12, and we had writers who are 13 and writers who are 104. So i thin...

Report from occupied territory where he laid out issues were grappling today, stop and frisk, alienated communities, Police Brutality. These are back and its incumbent upon the nation i think to have debates about where these different moments come together and diverge. I totally agree, and i would add, this is another example, because i go with katrina on the cruises fundraising cruise, we had a panel and Jesse Jackson was on this, the beginning of this cruise, and he got off the ship after the...

Almost every single one of them saluted back. It was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when youre talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. I guess, among many other things, ive always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. I want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. Im going to take one second here. I was inside the pentagon wor...

Covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If nothing else, that era was such a turn in journalism that i probably dont have to explain to anybody in this room. And i thought that if were not all totally familiar with these womens backgrounds, we would just start by going down the line and have all of you briefly tell us how you came to be in vietnam. Its a far away place a long time a...

From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow Bureau chief and later as Foreign Editor and assistant managing editor. Please join me in welcoming David Hoffman to the Louisville Free public library. [applause] thank you all for coming here tonight. Its a weeknight, and i know that a lot of you probably have other things to do, and its really exciting for an hour to come to louisville and see so many people interested. A book takes years and years to write, and im going to give you the best of it in 5 m...