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To the Point

The divided state of America

Hosted by Warren Olney Jul. 03, 2017 National
As the US celebrates its 241st year of independence from England, it’s a country more divided than unified. We look at the consequences.

Photo: Onlookers watch as a 95-by-50-foot American flag is unfurled on the side of an apartment complex, a replica of the "The Great Flag" that was spun, woven, dyed, constructed and displayed on the same building by Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1914, in Manchester, New Hampshire, US, June 14, 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

 

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