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live from our nation's capitol, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. corporate funding for washington week is provided by -- >> well, if you start putting that money towards your retirement and let it grow over time 20, 30 years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. >> we're committed to smart and light, secure and bold. in a world of enduring needs, the men and women of boeing are proud to deliver critical capabilities for those who serve to protect our nation and its allies and that's an enduring commitment. >> additional corporate funding is also newman's own nourishing the common good. the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. this week's big story was about an election that happened on the other side of the atlantic, but could have immediate impact on all the things you are not supposed to talk about at the dinner table -- war, peace and religion. isr

once again live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. for us fire surprises are the best surprises. by that measure, senator leader harry reid won the day, announcing he will leave the zphat when his term ends in 2016. the 75-year-old reid, who suffered a greivis injury to his face and eye earlier this year in an exercising accident, said his forced recovery gave him time to think but he insists that is not why he's stepping down. he posted this video online. >> these bruises i have on my face, on my eye, are an inconvenience but trust me, they're nothing compared to some of the bruises i got when i was fighting in the ring. gwen: went reid was once a boxer, something that surprises no one that has run against him negotiated him or covered him. manu raju is one of the latter. what do we know about why he really skepped down? manu: he was facing a really typical election next year. there's a very good chance he could have won but he would have to fight aggressively to keep his seat. gwen: doesn't he fight all the time? manu: he does fight

i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this thursday: down to the wire. an election preview, as polls show israeli prime minister netanyahu's party losing ground. >> netanyahu thinks-- he really thinks so-- that he is the only one that can protect the country. its really strange, but that's how netanyahu thinks. >> woodruff: plus, computer coding as a career. americans struggling to find jobs turn to web development and programming for better work and wages. >> why go to college for four years and work up the corporate ladder to get in the position to do something great when you can just learn to create something great? >> ifill: and, with spring training underway, we look at how baseball is trying to make nine long innings go faster. >> woodruff: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is about more than work. it is about growing a community. everyday across the country, the men and women of the i.b.e.w. are comm

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this monday: as the deadline for a deal with iran looms, we talk with the chief of the united nations nuclear watchdog. >> ifill: plus... >> he said we have reason to believe that tristan died from shaken baby syndrome. >> ifill: when a family tragedy turns into a legal nightmare. doubts and scrutiny over a diagnosis that triggers charges of abuse and puts some caregivers behind bars. >> there are certain doctors who believe that when you see a particular set of findings and you don't have the explanation of a terrible accident, like a car accident or a fall from a really high, high place or a particular illness that what must remain is abuse. >> woodruff: 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. >>

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. judy woodruff is away. also ahead: the supreme court case that could wipe out insurance subsidies for more than eight million americans. >> if you can imagine someone paying $100 a month and all of a sudden it's $415 a month which would be the average impact then you can imagine some people are going to stop paying. >> ifill: and, if it's monday, it's amy walter and nia malika- henderson on the week ahead in politics. 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. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> 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 f

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill also ahead this tuesday: john boehner backs down, as the house votes to end the political showdown and fund the department of homeland security >> woodruff: plus: >> the first few weeks i made some of my best friends, but two of us were sexually assaulted before classes had even started. >> woodruff: sexual violence on campus, a new documentary follows the stories of victims at universities and colleges across the u.s. >> lets face it. if they're happening at this rate over decades and decades

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. this monday: prospects for peace in syria, as president assad rejects a call for talks to end the war torn nation's bloody conflict. >> ifill: plus... >> you don't really get to live a good life on the income of a home care worker. >> ifill: ...the workers struggling to keep home health care affordable for elderly americans. >> someone has to pay for it.

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday: opting out of common core. why more public school students refuse to take the new standardized tests. >> we're all opposed to this because this is not about learning. this is not about education. >> we needed a more rigorous assessment to address whether or not we were providing more rigorous >> ifill: protests, apologies and expulsions after a video captures fraternity brothers chanting racist slurs at the university of oklahoma. we talk with university president david boren. >> we need to be educators and train students to think in new ways, to understand the feelings of others, to be sensitive to the feelings, and the rights of other people. >> woodruff: plus, >> it used to be boston strong but after this winter it's boston stubborn. >> woodruff: staying home or getting paid. the chilly effect of winter weather on wages for hourly workers. >> some employers simply said, "don't come in because we're closed. we can't-- we can't serve our customers. stay hom

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday. the boston bombing trial begins. opening arguments paint a case centering on the influence of a militant older brother. >> ifill: plus, we sit down with general john allen, the man the president has tapped to take down the islamic state. >> woodruff: and, the challenges of coming home. how female veterans struggle to find jobs and escape poverty after their time in the service has ended. >> that first two to three years after getting out was the worst. i was scared to tell people i had just gotten out of the military because i didn't know if that was the reason why they weren't hiring me because they thought i probably had ptsd or something. it was so hard. >> ifill: 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. >> at lincoln financial, we believe you're in charge. you're the chief life officer and this is your annual sharehold

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday: new questions over the value of biopsies to detect breast cancer. >> ifill: plus, why high wages and a low cost of living make the twin cities one of the best places for young people to succeed in the u.s. >> given the fact that minneapolis st. paul as an exceptional record not only on building income building wealth but sharing wealth and create creating opportunities for upward

gwen ifill is preparing for "washington week," which airs later this evening.a preview: >> ifill: challenges in israel and iran, money debates on capitol hill, and deep inside the 2016 campaign. bibi, budgets and big dollars. we take you behind the scenes, tonight on washington week, judy? >> woodruff: on pbs newshour weekend saturday, the story of an american army veteran who has joined a militia in iraq to fight isis and "defend christianity." >> brett says the international community, including christians in the united states, need to do much more to defend people he describes as "their brothers and sisters in christ," people now under attack here. >> what the message you are taking to the world? >> they need to open their ears. people are crying. they need to open their eyes. they need to help. we need funds, we need support. >> they don't just want to kick us out, they want to kill us and they are killing us. >> woodruff: that's tomorrow night on pbs newshour weekend. and we'll be back, right here, on monday. with a look at shaken baby syndrome, the traged

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this monday: as the deadline for a deal with iran looms, we talk with the chief of the united nations nuclear watchdog. >> ifill: plus... >> he said we have reason to believe that tristan died from shaken baby syndrome. >> ifill: when a family tragedy turns into a legal nightmare. doubts and scrutiny over a diagnosis that triggers charges of abuse and puts some caregivers behind bars.

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday: yemen unravels. rebels seize a key airport once used by american forces, and put out a bounty for the capture of the country's president. >> ifill: a day of decisions and arguments at the supreme court. justices revive a pregnancy discrimination claim against u.p.s., reject a re-districting plan in alabama, and question regulations to remove mercury from the air. >> woodruff: plus, disease resistant machines. how robots can advance the fight against ebola, one year after the deadly outbreak began. >> so it's exposing all of the surfaces in a hospital room, in an operating room to this intense v-non lamp. it will literally kill any virus or spore that we've ever seen. >> ifill: 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. at lincoln financial, we believe that you are the boss of your life. the chief l

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill also ahead this tuesday: john boehner backs down, as the house votes to end the political showdown and fund the department of homeland security >> woodruff: plus: >> the first few weeks i made some of my best friends, but two of us were sexually assaulted before classes had even started. >> woodruff: sexual violence on campus, a new documentary follows the stories of victims at universities and colleges across the u.s. >> lets face it. if they're happening at this rate over decades and decades university officials have to notice. the reason they haven't taken action is because they don't want anything to harm the reputation of their university. >> woodruff: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> it doesn't matter what kind of weather. it doesn't matter what time of day or night. when mother nature's done her worst, the only thing that matters to us, is keeping the lights on for you. we're the men and women of the international brotherhood of electrical worker

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this tuesday: we talk with afghanistan's president ashraf ghani, as he appeals to president obama for additional u.s. troops, money%3 and assistance, to counter a continuing taliban threat. >> woodruff: plus... >> bam! this letter from the state of california saying you owe us $54,000. i was like "what?!" >> woodruff: the hidden costs of medicaid. why california waits to mail &q!ealth care bills for recipients until after they die. >> ifill: and... >> the changing light in san francisco is a sea light, an island light, and the light of fog blanketing the hills. >> ifill: a poet's ode to a san francisco that once was. activist, author and publisher lawrence ferlinghetti laments the city's latest boom. >> a new brand of dot com millionaires and general silicon valley money have moved into san francisco with bags full of cash and no manners. >> woodruff: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provi

i'm gwen ifill. judy woodruff is on assignment. also ahead this thursday: forced into a runoff, chicago mayor rahm emanuel defends his record against an underdog candidate with less fame, power and money. plus, an american dream in crisis. why the future is less bright for poor kids in small-town america, where wealth determines where you can go. >> america is silently but really importantly becoming increasingly segregated by how much you earn and how much education you have. >> ifill: and, entrepreneurs design high tech devices marketed to aging baby boomers, who want stay healthy and active. >> the stereotype that old people don't like the technology. i want to break that right now. i love these technological devices. i just need to see how they're going to serve me. >> ifill: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is about more than work. it is about growing a community. everyday across the countr

gwen ifill is away. also ahead this tuesday: uproar in indiana. governor pence now calls for changes in a law he just signed, one that critics charge discriminates by allowing businesses to deny service to homosexuals. then, a change at the top of africa's most populous nation. nigeria elects a new leader in that country's first democratic transfer of power. plus... >> step aside grande latte, there's

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday: new questions over the value of biopsies to detect breast cancer. >> ifill: plus, why high wages and a low cost of living make the twin cities one of the best places for young people to succeed in the u.s. >> given the fact that minneapolis st. paul as an exceptional record not only on building income building wealth but sharing wealth and create creating opportunities for upward mobility, we should pay more attentions to cities like it if we want to replicate that across the country. >> woodruff: and, the last crossing of the lusitania. a new book chronicles the passenger ship's final voyage through the perilous waters of world war one. >> there is so much fantastic archival material that it seemed to offer an opportunity for me to put on my alfred hitchcock hat and really make it a kind of exercise in nonfiction suspense >> ifill: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided

i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this thursday: an intervention in yemen. saudi arabia launches air strikes against rebels who've shaken the balance of power. >> woodruff: plus... >> if you have cash, you are king right now. >> woodruff: investors swoop into florida, eager to buy up foreclosed homes and make big returns. but is history fated to repeat itself only years after the great recession? >> we have large hedge funds in our area, buying up mass amounts of houses, renting them out, and then they take 'em in big pools and they sell 'em up to the new york stock exchange. >> ifill: and... >> basketball, sports is the hook, but once you get them hooked: family. love. friendship. >> ifill: using basketball to get kids to read. a novel in verse that won this year's highest honor in young adult literature. >> he was active. there was action. that's what i like. i like to inspire and show children that poetry is cool. >> woodruff: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> maj

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this monday: prospects for peace in syria, as president assad rejects a call for talks to end the war torn nation's bloody conflict. >> ifill: plus... >> you don't really get to live a good life on the income of a home care worker. >> ifill: ...the workers struggling to keep home health care affordable for elderly americans. >> someone has to pay for it. and what happens when they can't afford it. i think that's our worry is when clients can't afford home care any more. >> ifill: 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. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this tuesday: making contact sports safer. technology alerts trainers and teammates when players take heavy blows. >> we can actually identify nine locations around the head and identify the force of impact from those nine locations. it does not indicate anything about your level of injury. it indicates your level of impact. >> woodruff: plus, fighting cancer with the immune system.

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. judy woodruff is away. also ahead: the supreme court case that could wipe out insurance subsidies for more than eight million americans. >> if you can imagine someone paying $100 a month and all of a sudden it's $415 a month which would be the average impact then you can imagine some people are going to stop paying. >> ifill: and, if it's monday, it's amy walter and nia malika- henderson on the week ahead in politics. those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour.

gwen ifill recently recorded this interview. it's the latest from our "newshour bookshelf." >> ifill: you may recognize scott simon from his public voice, as host of npr's weekend edition saturday. but it is his private voice that brought him a different kind of attention, as he chronicled his mother's final days in an unusually public way, on twitter. his series of 140-character observances about the remarkable life and poignant death of patricia lyons simon newman captured the imagination, and led him to the book "unforgettable: a son, a mother and the lessons of a lifetime." scott joins me now. i want to ask you first to tell me about your mom, but first one good way to do it is to read one of the tweets that you wrote which actually first caught my eye when you were keeping her, keeping vigil with her in the hospital. >> in the intensive care unit. i got one of those orange camp maps at a sporting good store and laid that down next to the bed so that i could stay there obviously. i think this is the tweet you mean. "my mother

gwen ifill is away. also ahead this monday: nigeria on edge.frica's largest economy awaits final results in a presidential election still too close to call. plus, testing for implicit bias and prejudice. a science laboratory studies human instinct to uncover the subtlety of racism. >> sreenivasan: in this test, i had under a second to decide whether or not to shoot the person that flashed on screen- based on just one thing- whether

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. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill.lso ahead this tuesday: we talk with afghanistan's president ashraf ghani, as he appeals to president obama for additional u.s. troops, money%3 and assistance, to counter a continuing taliban threat. >> woodruff: plus... >> bam! this letter from the state of california saying you owe us $54,000. i was like "what?!" >> woodruff: the hidden costs of medicaid. why california waits to mail &q!ealth care bills

good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday: yemen unravels. rebels seize a key airport once used by american forces, and put out a bounty for the capture of the country's president. >> ifill: a day of decisions and arguments at the supreme court. justices revive a pregnancy discrimination claim against u.p.s., reject a re-districting plan in alabama, and question regulations to remove mercury from the air. >> woodruff: plus, disease resistant machines.

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this thursday. money, misconduct and mistrust. the damning details of a report on the racial bias of the ferguson police department. >> woodruff: plus, locks changed, keys surrendered. floridians who face foreclosure lose the place they call home. >> the mortgage just started going up. and, my 401k, my bank account my car that, the only car that i bought myself, a 2003 monte carlo, brand new, i had to get rid of that to pay for the mortgage. >> ifill: and, a disappearing circus act. the ringling brothers move to retire elephants from performances under the big tent. those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is about more than work. it is about growing a community. everyday across the country, the men and women of the i.b.e.w. are committed to doing the job right, doing the job safe, and doing the job on time. because while we might wire your street, we're also your friends and neighbors. i.b.e.w. the power professionals in your neighb

gwen ifill is preparing for "washington week," which airs later this evening.a preview: >> ifill: we go inside capitol hill, to capture harry reid's surprise retirement. we survey the continuing fallout from america's longest war, as new president ashraf ghani comes to washington, and former captive bowe bergdahl is accused of desertion. and we take stock of ted cruz, the only official candidate for president. that's tonight on washington week. judy? >> woodruff: on pbs newshour weekend saturday, a report on patients facing life or death decisions, and the doctors who are required to talk to them about it. >> it is about grandma controlling the plug. grandma or her designee controls the plug, and that's the system we're going to have. >> the doctor is at the forefront of the new national movement to make talking about death public policy. he chaired the expert medical panel that helped lead to new massachusetts regulations, the first in the nation which took effect in december, mandating that health facilities from hospitals to assisted living communities tell

gwen ifill is preparing for "washington week," which airs later this evening.s a preview: >> ifill: tonight we look at three things we didn't see coming, the latest revelations about the secret service the uproar over hillary clinton's secret emails and yoga routines and the back story on the letter 47 republican senators sent to iran. there's more to know, and we'll have it for you, later tonight, on washington week. judy? >> woodruff: on pbs newshour weekend saturday, an update on a story that looks at what happens to the online accounts that make up your digital estate after you're gone. and we'll be back, right here, on monday. the latest from israel, ahead of elections with prime minister netanyahu on the line. that's the newshour for tonight i'm judy woodruff, have a great weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, dem