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Woodruff the economy added more jobs than expected in november, and the Unemployment Rate dropped to a four year low. Good evening, im judy woodruff. Brown and im Jeffrey Brown. On the newshour tonight, paul solman breaks down the latest report. And we debate the benefits of extending Unemployment Insurance amid washingtons fiscal uncertainty. Woodruff then we turn to the Supreme Court which agreed today to take up the issue of gay marriage. Margaret warner looks at whats at stake with marcia co...

And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown more people found work in november and more people stopped looking for work. As a result, the number of new jobs came in better than expected today and the rate of unemployment was the lowest since 2008. Newshour economics correspondent paul solman begins our coverage. R...

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Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know th...

There is more to go. So obama is quite a challenging figure and in that sense we have done more than we really ever have. Baratunde thurston, how to be black is the name of the book and this is book tv on cspan2. Next on book tv, Henry Gallagher recalls his assignment as officer in charge of the security detail for James Meredith, the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi in september of 1962. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you ralph and john andd mmy gratitude to the ...

Good to have you with us. audience chanting stephen cheers and applause chaos. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. audience chanting stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I need your energy. I need it to fight injustice, to fight the bastards out there. Folks, you know, folks, ill tell you i need that kind of energy tonight particularly because, folks, this job is hard. laughter i dont want to bring you depressing stories night after night. Thats why tonight i am so happy to final...

Jon thats our show. Join us tomorrow at 11 00. Here it is your moment of zen. Theres new and definitive evidence tonight that americans have wa cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report good to have you with us. Settle down here this is it right here thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Good to have you with us. audience chanting stephen cheers and applause chaos. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. audience chanting stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I need your energy. I ...

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Newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff violence continued across syria today as the United States welcomed a russian admission that syrias rebels may succeed in overthrowing president bashar alassad. Syrian state television showed woodruff for more on all of this we turn to vi...