Drone aircraft might be delivering Amazon orders to your door soon says Jeff Bezos. But first states and the federal government are wrestling with the implications of new, pilotless aircraft -- how they might affect civil liberties and how to keep them out of the way of manned aircraft in skies that are already crowded.
Marcus Mabry, editor at large for the New York Times on South Africa's future.
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Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
Shoei High School will be the first school in the Fukushima Prefecture to permanently close at the end of March 2014. The high school is around 13.67 miles outside of the nuclear plant.
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The United Nations and other aid organizations are calling on international donors to pony up $6.5 billion to help Syrians inside and outside the country -- their largest appeal yet in Syria's nearly three-year-old civil war.
» Continued ...In well-rehearsed public statements, politicians rarely stray from their talking points. But on social media, they tend to loosen up. They express personal tastes, share humorous quips, and occasionally make unfortunate gaffes.
So how well do you know politicos? Take PBS NewsHour's quiz and see if you can identify some of 2013's most memorable political tweets.
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The Defense Department announced Monday that it released two prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the government of Saudi Arabia -- part of its ongoing effort to process detainees and eventually close the U.S. facility in Cuba.
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Daily marijuana use has a measurable effect on the brain, a new study finds. Photo by Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT via Getty Images.
Teenagers who smoked marijuana daily for three years performed poorly on memory tasks and showed abnormal changes in brain structure, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.
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While, under certain circumstances, you can receive all of your suspended retirement benefits in one lump sum, it's not necessarily a good idea if you've got survivors to think about. Photo courtesy of Flickr user dumbeast.
A video still from Nelson Mandela's memorial service shows Thamsanqa Jantjie on the right.
The fake sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial was reportedly among a group that burned two men to death in 2003.
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Todd Salat was born an Iowa country boy, making his way to the mountains as often as possible. Once he came of age, it didn’t take him long to find his way to Alaska. Over the past 20-plus years, Salat has become one of the best photographers of the northern lights in Alaska, and the world.
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One out of four adults in California is a high school dropout. Class Dismissed takes an up-close look at the crisis through the lives of four young people from the Central Valley. The stories reveal what’s at stake for their future and ours.
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The National Football League, a billion-dollar commercial juggernaut, is under assault: thousands of former players have claimed the league tried to cover up how football inflicted long-term brain injuries on many players. What did the NFL know, and when did it know it? In a special two-hour investigation, FRONTLINE reveals the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries.
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Dec. 15, 2013
The U.S., along with the U.K., Germany, France, Russia, China and the European Union (known collectively as the P5+1), reached a historic agreement with Iran Nov. 23 aimed at preventing the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
