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against the law. this is happening, by the way, the week of worlds aids day and its happening 26 years after another teenager roger white was barred from going to class because he was hiv positive. ryan white showed you could be hiv positive and not pose a threat to other students. the question tonight, have we not learned anything since then? three years ago congress suspended the americans with disabilities act to bar discrimination based on hiv status and the timing is remarkable an...

barred from going to class because he was hiv positive. ryan white showed you could be hiv positive and not pose a threat to other students. the question tonight, have we not learned anything since then? three years ago congress suspended the americans with disabilities act to bar discrimination based on hiv status and the timing is remarkable and to many so is the setting where this decision was made. and pennsylvanias milton hershey school, which was established 102 years ago by the ...

stock exchange and other public areas. the protest movement began two months ago on september 17th. frustrations over the financial crisis are also playing out in greece. thousands of people poured into the streets of athens to commemorate a student uprising in 1973 but it quickly turned into a demonstration against new government austerity measures. the ruling coalition plans to submit a new round of budget cuts to parliament later today. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton wi...

Substance. this was a fairly deep debate. im not saying that because im promoting what we do here at msnbc, cnbc, nbc -- >> well take the flattery. >> i want to play a couple clips. it came up almost without too much prompting by you and maria. heres a couple clips. >> let me say i want to be the president of the 99%. i also want to be the president of the 1%. >> i have yet to hear a sing the reporter ask a single occupy wall street a single rational question about the economy that would late th...

militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, shes been digging on this story. what are you learning? >> wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network ...

Eyewitnesses recanting their testimony. also yesterday evening the state of texas executed white supremacist lawrence brewer, convicted of helping kill a black man in 1998 by dragging him behind a truck. here we go again. a new continuing resolution to fund the government through november 18th failed to pass the house last night. at the center of the congressional disagreement, disaster relief spending. the current measure runs out next friday. prompting yet another scramble to avoid a governm...

isnt this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. >> dont you wish one day wed say theres nothing going on, go home. >> change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns -- its a campaign stop. its a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. hell meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. hes been making his pitch f...

the nations debt ceiling is fueling hopes the government wont run out of money on august 2nd. obama saying the deadline drawing close and congressional leaders need to talk turkey in todays meetings. most of the central heat under a heat alert. some areas feel as hot as 126 degrees. . the taliban blaming u.s. hackers for a text that announced the death of mullah omar. the taliban says, no, he is alive and well. one day after rupert murdoch tried to repel the british assault on hi...

Workers sprayed the reactors with chemicals to prevent radiation from spreading. there are increasing concerns the storm could carry contaminated material by air. the rains already caused radioactive water levels inside reactors to rise, prompting fears that water could spill out into the ocean. in fukushimas soma city, flooding forced roughly 80 evacuees to return to a familiar place. but there are little complaints. aikiko fujita, abc news, tokyo. >> just unbelievable. they have endured so muc...

Back to you. >> and that was jeff morrow reporting for us. jeff, thank you. so that string of storms is dumping heavy rain throughout the region and prompting evacuations amid flooding in parts of mississippi and arkansas. the weather channels jen carfagno joins us. it seems there is no rest for the weary, jen. all the rain that fell causing the rivers to rise and its taking a while for the rivers to compensate. well be watching for this into the week. a couple of locations were watching at re...