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This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. After aurora, after virginia tech, after columbine, the question of gun violence becomes a recurring national conversation. This evening, newshour joins pbs in a week of special coverage on the topic of gun violence after newtown. The waves of reaction since decembers Connecticut School shooting continue to reverberate from coast to coast. Now ifill as guncontrol activists push for stricter laws. And gun owners chafe against the prospect of new r...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions ifill in the nine weeks since the schoolhouse shootings in newtown, connecticut, police around the country report hundreds more have been victims of gun violence. Good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Tonight begins a weeklong focus on guns here on pbs, after newtown. On the newshour this evening, we look at political and other developments since the december tragedy and zero in on the gun debate in colorado. In the divisive atmosphere of the gun debate, both sides, at the federal and state level, say they know the coming...

Ifill then, we take up the arguments for and against the proposed construction of the Keystone Pipeline, as environmental activists mounted a protest this weekend. Woodurff ray suarez updates the hugo chavez story, after the president s surprise return to venezuela following more than two months of Cancer Treatment in cuba. Ifill and Jeffrey Brown talks with filmmaker kirby dick about his oscarnominated documentary the invisible war, detailing the high rate of Sexual Assault in the u. S. Military. 86 of men and women who are sexually assaulted in the military dont report. They experience repri...

Good evening. The Government Shutdown ended today, having ended with a whimper in the dark of night with members of congress leaving town to head home and face their constituents. The deal funds the government until january 15. It raises the debt limit until february 7. And the 16day Government Shutdown caused grave damage beyond the erosion of remaining faith and elected officials, beyond the damage to u. S. Prestige, it hurt a lot of americans, some of whom cant ever recover what they lost. Politically, its widely agreed to have been a big loss and selfinflicted wound mostly for the Republic...

With scott pelley. Pelley good evening, the longawaited opening of obamacare was accompanied today by the longthreatened closing of the federal government. Well have complete coverage of the Government Shutdown in a moment. But, first, americans began shopping online today for Health Insurance on those new state exchanges created by the Affordable Care act. There were major problems. All over the country. Web sites were slow or crashed all together, leaving a lot of folks angry and frustrated. The president noted that by 7 00 a. M. More than a Million People visited the main web site health ca...