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PBS NewsHour full episode May 5, 2015

Season 2015 Episode 1250

Tuesday on the NewsHour, the Islamic State claims responsibility for an attack in Texas, but did the militant group really direct the shooters? Also: Consumer worries drive menu makeovers at big food companies, how African-Americans see hospice care, bird flu threatens the U.S. poultry industry, tour guides bridge the Israeli-Palestinian divide and poet Elizabeth Alexander remembers her husband.

Aired: 05/04/15
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Extras
Iran’s new supreme leader vows continued retaliation across Gulf and oil routes
Synagogue attack and Old Dominion shooting renew security concerns in U.S.
Middle East analysts on what the Iran war has accomplished and how it might end
News Wrap: Senate votes down measure to reopen Department of Homeland Security
Lebanese Christian villages caught in Israel-Hezbollah war
Remembering neon artist and glass-bending master Wil Kirkman
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