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Hello welcome to al jazeera america. Im Thomas Drayton. First a look at the update economy. The retail season spurred sales, the highest in three years. A Bright Outlook on the jobs front. More americans stayed employed. Jobless claims fell by 42,000 last week. Encouraging news for traders as they headed back to work after the christmas holiday. The stock market continued its climb with the dow hitting on alltime high. Is the economy on track . Here is what economist Mark Lieberman had to say. W...

Amazon has kept its number of prime users secret. Some holiday stats offer clues as to how popular it really is. And from wearable devices like google glass, the ipad is in the classroom. We debate the top ads of the year. Lead. Rst, to the after a week of setbacks, the Obama Administration gets a victory in court over nsa surveillance. A federal judge in new york ruled that the collection of phone call data, including numbers dialed and duration of calls, is legal. The judge threw out a lawsuit...

Not by as much as the company had indicated it could have. Its the first hike since the service was introduced. A lot happening in the Retail Sector today. Data showing a slight increase in february sales. Results from Dollar General and jcpenney relaunching its home goods department. And some new information in the gm ignition switch recall. The automaker now telling affected owners not to weigh down their key rings with anything more than the car key and key fob. Well talk more about that. Fir...

Birds from nesting in capitals. When we started this project, there was a major water event in of 1990 that deposited a large amount of water on the floor of the rotunda and it was through our investigations that we discovered bird nesting materials and debris from eating dome was what clogged the gutter system, caused the water the interstitial space and cascade into the rotunda so weve taken on a series of projects since that time to ensure that the drainage system is never compromised again b...

Other party, or parties. Thats, i think, what theyre objecting to because there is, it sounds to me like if i get a ticket, my reasonable expectation is theyre not going to charge me what theyre going to charge, its unbelievable. Thats my reasonable expectation and im the other party and so that clause sounds as if you could under state contract law, govern the price according to my reasonable expectation, namely, the consumer. That might be a great idea but i dont think thats the idea behind th...

And after. Were live at the scene. After 11 straight victories, the jeopardy mastermind who made waves with polarizing strategies finally stumped and off the show, but hes here live. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. Robin off today. This malaysian flight mystery continues to deepen. Most of us went to bed with these images in mind right here. Thats a satellite photo from china said to be debris from the flight. The malaysian Officials Say this morning there is nothing there at a...

Great to have you here. Time for theis newsfeed, the top stories from around the world. In india, a historic defeat for the family that has governed the country for most of the past several decades. Outsition bloc led by modi that the congress party. Raul gadhi conceded defeat. Modi promised overhaul of the economy. Uber in talks that could end up tripling its valuation. According to people familiar with the matter, it is trying to raise more money in a round that would value the company more th...

Policy. The council of Foreign Relations member and former analyst is the author of six nonfiction books, including the village, the strongest tribe and his 2011 release, the wrong war. Being wise, why do you call afghanistan toward the wrong war . Guest because we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen hurtling into the ninth century. That was too much. So what was the wrong war for the strategy we cho...

Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end g...

Oh, yes, you can. Thats what a war is all about. And general mccristal and others said mcchrystal said we should spend 95 of our effort persuading the people and 5 attacking the enemy. That makes no sense. If you start putting all these restrictions upon the use of force, do you know that we ended up having a lawyer in every battalion who had to decide whether we could use air in an attack for fear that somebody would be courtmartialed . So we put restrictions on ourselves beyond the restriction...