barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the first round of france's presidential election is over. exit poll projections and early returns indicate controversial nationalist marine le pen will be one of the two candidates advancing to a runoff two weeks from today. the other will be centrist candidate emmanuel macron. it appears macron and le pen will each win about a quarter of the vote in a crowded 11-candidate field. incumbent francois hollande did not seek a second five-year term. >> sreenivasan: turnout was high by american standards. by early evening around 70% of eligibl

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. america's first billionaire president is surrounded by many staffers with a very high net worth. a batch of the financial disclosure forms top white house staffers are legally required to fill out shows 27 administration staffers have assets worth a combined $2.3 billion. among the wealthiest are trump's daughter, ivanka, and her husband, jared kushner, both serving as unpaid west wing advisers. they have assets worth at least $240 million and as much as $740 million, mostly in real estate owned by both families. national economic counci

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the nation's capital has seen large demonstrations for civil rights, for and against abortion rights, protesting wars and many more causes. today, the cause was science and defending it from political attacks. on this 47th annual earth day, thousands of scientists and those who support independent, fact-based research on climate change and a range of other policies, took to the streets of washington, across the country and around the world. newshour weekend's christopher booker has more. >> reporter: from sydney to berlin to london, it w

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president donald trump is marking his 100th day in office with a visit and rally tonight in a key swing state that propelled him to the white house. mr. trump is expected to address supporters in harrisburg, the capital of pennsylvania, which backed him last november, the first time the state went republican since 1988. before the rally, the president was set to visit a shovel and gardening tool manufacturer and sign an executive order directing the commerce department and u.s. trade representative to identify trade agreement violations by ot

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the process to fill the supreme court vacancy left by the death of justice antonin scalia 14 months ago takes a step forward tomorrow. the nomination of judge neil gorsuch gets a vote in the senate judiciary committee that questioned him last month. the committee is expected to approve the nomination along partisan lines, with republicans having the majority, as they do in the whole senate, with 52 of 100 seats. today, senator joe donnelly of indiana joined heidi heitkamp of south dakota and joe manchin of west virginia as the only democr

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the trump administration's foreign policy team is articulating dual priorities for the united states in syria. today, secretary of state rex tillerson said the ongoing fight against the islamic state group, or isis, which is headquartered in raqqa, syria, remains the primary goal. >> our priority is, first, the defeat of isis-- remove them from access to the caliphate, because that is where the threat to the homeland and so many of our homelands of our coalition partners is emanating from. >> sreenivasan: tillerson added, in his trip to

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president trump's national security adviser h.r. mcmaster calls north korea's latest and failed missile test part of a, quote, "pattern of provocative, destabilizing and threatening" behavior. only hours after yesterday's massive military parade in pyongyang, north korea launched what was believed to be a medium-range missile. u.s. pacific command said it blew up only four or five seconds after launch. south korea said the test" threatened the whole world" and japan called it a "provocation"" shortly after the failed missile test, the pe

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. syrian government warplanes today resumed bombing the same town hit by a chemical weapons attack earlier this week. that attack was in violation of international law and prompted an american missile strike in retaliation. at least 87 people have died since syrian president bashar assad unleashed chemical bombs on civilians in the rebel-held town of khan sheikhoun in the country's northern idlib province. today's government air strikes with conventional bombs killed at least two people, according to human rights groups. elsewhere today in syr

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. north korea marked its most important holiday today with a show of military might and a blunt warning, but there were no new north korean missile or nuclear tests, as some analysts had thought might happen. the totalitarian regime celebrated the "day of the sun"" the birth of its late founding ruler, kim il-sung, 105 years ago today. his grandson and current ruler, kim jong-un, looked on as troops and firepower paraded before him in the main square of the capital, pyongyang. of paramount interest were what appeared to be new intercontine

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