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PBS NewsHour full episode, May 8, 2020

Friday on the NewsHour, as U.S. unemployment rises to its highest level since the Great Depression, more states let businesses reopen. Plus: How the government can address the economic crisis, COVID-19 in the American West, Pulitzer honors for local news, the analysis of Mark Shields and David Brooks, remembering victims of the pandemic, the 75th anniversary of VE-Day and flowers for the sick.

WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS
Can states reopen their economies safely?

Why U.S. economic crisis is even worse than it appears

News Wrap: Suspects in Ahmaud Arbery killing appear in court

The western U.S. counties COVID-19 has barely reached

2 Pulitzer winners on the changing landscape of local news

Shields and Brooks on DOJ politics, Trump’s economic hopes

Remembering Americans lost to the coronavirus pandemic

What these World War II veterans remember most about VE-Day

How this Calif. artist is sharing ‘Flowers for Sick People’

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