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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, 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, November 9, 2019 2:00pm
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For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...
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Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm
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Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30pm
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A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de...
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Saturday, May 4, 2019 2:00pm
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For 15 weeks, from the start of their season through the 2016 Alabama state tournament, the wrestlers at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School endured...
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Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm
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For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor...
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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...