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Is Wall Street Still "Untouchable"?

In "The Untouchables," which re-airs tonight on FRONTLINE, correspondent Martin Smith examines why not one major Wall Street executive has been prosecuted for fraud tied to the sale of bad mortgages.

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The Gun Lobby's Concealed Weapon

Pro-gun moderates are quietly using background checks to expand gun rights.

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Interactive: Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health

So much of what we call “digital television,” YouTube, Netflix or Hulu, is just small television, distributed over the internet. …

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Reflections On "Never Forget To Lie"

For many viewers, filmmaker Marian Marzynski's Never Forget To Lie has evoked strong emotions about family, faith, survival and love.

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Eric Holder Backtracks Remarks on "Too Big To Jail"

The attorney general on Wednesday sought to walk back earlier comments that some financial institutions may be too large to prosecute.

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Maja Hrabowska: "My Life In Hiding"

Maja Hrabowska is a member of the generation of children that survived the Holocaust. "The past is always with me," she writes. "It has long, cold fingers, and catches me unprepared, at night mostly, when I wake up in sweat."

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A New Link Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide

A new study finds that military members with a history of brain injuries, some of which may have been sustained earlier in life, run a higher suicide risk.

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Vermont to Legalize Assisted Suicide

A bill approved by the state legislature makes Vermont just the third state in the nation to legalize physician-assisted suicide - and the first to do it through a legislative vote.

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The Last Witnesses of the Holocaust — Live Chat Transcript

Join a live chat with filmmaker Marian Marzynski and historian Peter Black, of the United States Holocaust Museum. You can leave a question now.

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Watch More Holocaust Child Survivor Stories

As many as 1.5 million children were killed in the Holocaust. But some managed to survive, at times because they hid with their families, because relatives sacrificed themselves to protect them, or because they pretended not to be Jewish.

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Returning to the Haunted Ground of the Warsaw Ghetto

Before World War II, Poland's capital was home to the country's largest Jewish community. More than 350,000 Jews lived in the city. No more than 20,000 of them survived the Holocaust.

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Why the Military Has a Sexual Assault Problem

The military's campaign to prevent sexual assault centers on telling servicemen not to have sex with women when they're drunk.

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How Do You Know Which Financial Adviser to Trust?

The Labor Department is looking to raise standards among financial advisers, but opposition from industry groups, lawmakers and even some consumer advocates threatens to sink the proposal.

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Spirit Lake's Top Federal Official Retires Amid Leadership Shakeup

Spirit Lake's leadership has been beset by allegations that it ignored or enabled problems of child abuse on the reservation. The BIA has known about the problems at Spirit Lake for at least two years, but took no action until a whistleblower went public with concerns.

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Four Obama Policies That Help Keep Guantanamo Open

Obama blames Congress for keeping Guantanamo open, but he's also helped to preserve a situation that he described on Tuesday as "not sustainable."

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NFL Helmet Manufacturer Warned On Concussion Risk

Despite the warning, Riddell promoted its Revolution helmet -- used by players from youth leagues up to the NFL -- as providing better protection against concussions.

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Is "Top Secret America" Making Us Safer? Live Chat Wed. 2 pm ET

Join us for a live chat about "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings" with Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, FRONTLINE producer Mike Wiser and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen.

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The Boston Bombers: Who Knew What When

The FBI and the CIA had been tipped off about one of the bombers two years ago. Could the attacks have been prevented?

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How Retirement Fees Cost You

Most Americans are unaware of the fees they are paying for their 401(k)'s, but over a lifetime, such charges can cost an ordinary American more than $109,000. Here's how.

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In Brawl For Seau Brain, a Proxy War Over Concussion Science

The NFL's intervention in the fate of Junior Seau's brain — the most prized specimen yet in the race to document the relationship between football and brain damage — was part of an aggressive strategy to dictate who leads the science of concussions.

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"Top Secret America" After the Boston Bombings

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Americans are asking why the country's intelligence agencies failed to prevent the devastating attack.

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Four New Awards for FRONTLINE Films & Digital Productions

FRONTLINE investigations into campaign finance, the Afghan drug trade, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and the AIDS epidemic among African Americans have won awards this week.

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Are You Losing the Retirement Gamble? Live Chat Transcript

Join a live chat about "The Retirement Gamble" on 4/24 at 2 p.m. ET with producer Marcela Gaviria, correspondent, Martin Smith, 401(k) expert, Robert Hiltonsmith and Money magazine editor-at-large, Penelope Wang.

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What to Ask About Your Retirement

We asked three experts what the important questions are.

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"The Retirement Gamble" Facing Us All

Retirement is big business in America, but is the system costing workers and retirees more than what they're getting in return, asks FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith.

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Why Is It So Hard to Try A Rape Case in Pakistan?

In Pakistan, just talking about rape and sexual violence is a cultural taboo. But bringing a case through the Pakistani courts and discerning truth from fiction is dangerous, complicated and, and as filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann learned, fraught with challenges.

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