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Saturday, May 14, 2016 11:00am
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As a county sheriff and creator of Utah’s first SWAT team, William “Dub” Lawrence was once an unlikely critic of law enforcement. That SWAT team, howe...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017 2:00pm
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The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut...
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Saturday, April 8, 2017 2:00pm
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This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless ene...
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Saturday, May 13, 2017 2:00pm
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Alex Sutton, a veteran of three combat tours in Iraq, has been done with war for nearly a decade. But his fight is far from over. Dealing with&nbsp...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017 2:00pm
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The documentary Real Boy tells the story of transgender teen Bennett Wallace, the struggle by his mother to accept his tr...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 1:30pm
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The 2017 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series, spotlighting the works of stylish, idiosyncratic director David Lynch, wraps up...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm
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While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...
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Thursday, April 22, 2021 8:00pm
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The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...