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woodruff: and it s friday, mark shields and michael gerson are here, to analyze the week s news. those are some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you re own chief life officer. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions 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: february was a solid month for americans looking for work. the latest job numbers from the labor department show employers added 295,000 jobs last month. that helped push the unemployment rate down to 5.5%. but it also fell becau ....
allentown, the northeast extension. your drive time is looking pretty good. 21 22 minutes in both directions. vai? thank you, katy. overnight police say a gunman confessed to a shooting just after it happened. officers arrived on felton street around 2ing this morning. they found the victim on the ground and another man who told police he did it and handed over his gun. the confessed shooter is being interviewed right now by police. a 20-year-old maryland man is behind bars charged with murdering his teenage girlfriend s mother in lehigh valley. matt? vai, this 55-year-old mother was stabbed several times in the neck. we re not mentioning her name bus the d.a. s office says her daughter is the victim of statutory rape. the man, 20-year-old taylor barnes is an army soldier out of ft. lee. he killed her in the drive way of her macungie home. he tried to hide the body. when officers got there, the car was gone but the victim s body was found buried under some dirt ....
continues into the apparent suicide of a nurse at the hospital where the duchess of cambridge was being treated. she took a prank phone call from australian radio deejays looking for information on the duchess condition. today, a letter to the hospital, he called the whole thing quote truly tragic and said we are anxious to review the results of the investigation. the family of the nurse posted about her on facebook her daughter wrote simply i miss you. i love you. the dallas cowboys took the field today without two players. jerry brown jr. was killed early yesterday when the car he was riding in hit a curb at high speed in irving, texas. police say the mercedes went 900 feet, flipped and caught fire. police say cowboys nose tackle was pulling him from the burnt car when they arrived. brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter. our officers on scene felt as if alcohol was a contributing factor in the accident, so mr. price brent was asked to perform some fiel ....
at the programme. and it s victory for lewis hamilton in the tuscan grand prix after a race that was stopped twice after a spate of crashes. more on that at 6:30pm in sportsday. the justice secretary, robert buckland, has defended government plans to potentially override elements of the brexit withdrawal agreement signed with the european union. the proposal, which would break international law, would give number 10 the power to change or ignore rules relating to the movement of goods between britain and northern ireland. mr buckland said it was an emergency brexit insurance policy if brussels acted in an unreasonable way by insisting on excessive checks on goods. here s our chief political correspondent, vicki young. a lot‘s changed since brexit day. crowds can no longer gather, but once again the arguments are raging about our relationship with the eu. four years ago, these two former prime ministers campaigned against brexit. today, they criticised the government f ....
for spying in iran, says her case is a game of cat and mouse between governments with them living life as a piece of bait. police in belarus detain 250 anti government protestors as around 100,000 people return to street demonstrations. good afternoon. two former prime ministers have condemned a plan by the government to override elements of the brexit withdrawal agreement signed with the eu. in a joint column for the sunday times, sirjohn major and tony blair called the proposal, which would break international law, shocking and irresponsible. the justice secretary, robert buckland, this morning dismissed the criticism, saying the country is facing an unprecedented situation. 0ur political correspondent, helen catt, reports. two former prime ministers, one conservative, one labour, both angry. they have joined forces before to speak against brexit, but now they have strong words for a government planning to alter parts of the treaty which paved the way for leaving the ....