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PBS News Hour

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Season 2012 Episode 530 | 54m 44s

Tonight on the program, we examine the second day of protests in Afghanistan in the aftermath of Quran burnings in a U.S. base in Kabul. Also: the GOP campaign going into the Arizona debate, two western journalists killed in Syria, Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal talks the Stolen Valor case taken on by the Supreme Court, and the future Smithsonian Museum of African-American History.

Aired: 02/21/12 | Expires: 03/23/12
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