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  • PBS NewsHour announces weekend newscast

    NewsHour Weekend announced

    Starting Sept. 7, the PBS NewsHour is expanding its family, adding a "PBS NewsHour Weekend" newscast on Saturdays and Sundays.

The nation's health

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Saving Medicare?
This week on Need to Know, Anchor Ray Suarez talk with three experts about Medicare's costly future.
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Politics

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  Subversive learning?
Need to Know travels to Tucson, Arizona, where a years-long dispute over a Mexican-American studies program has tensions high.
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The Border Series

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Dying to get back
For those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly, more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history.
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web extra

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  Searching for answers
19-year-old Gladys Dominguez shares her search for information about her father who was lost crossing Arizona state's border desert.
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    • Need to Know aired on PBS from May 2010 to June 2013. For more in-depth analysis of the day's national and international news, please tune in to the PBS NewsHour Weekend newscast, premiering on Sept. 7, 2013.