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Truck drivers in the U.S. are in an odd position. On the one hand, they are in high demand. There a shortage with tens of thousands of drivers needed to haul all the goods needed across the country. On the other hand, many truckers fear self-driving vehicles could soon put them out of a job.Companies have got their eyes on the prize. Get rid of drivers, trucker Finn Murphy recently told economics correspondent Paul Solman.But with all the recent talk about truck drivers, few people really understand what it means to live on the road. Thursday on the PBS NewsHour, Solman catches up with Murphy again to talk about his book, The Long Haul: A Trucker Tales of Life on the Road. The memoir provides a glimpse into the 20 years Murphy has spent as a trucker, with all the joys, struggles and laughs. You can read an exce
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The clash between police and the patrons of a New York City gay bar in June 1969 marked a key moment in the modern-day LGBTQ rights movement. The uprising at the Stonewall Inn stretched over several days and became a defining moment in the push for equality.Police raids of gay bars were very common in those days, Martin Boyce told the PBS NewsHour. I was in a number of raids, Boyce said. We were all trained right away what to do in a raid. You knew exactly what to do. He said that in a raid, patrons would stay qui
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