On the PBS NewsHour Tonight

On Friday's NewsHour: the major developments of the day, plus context and analysis. Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan has your preview.

On Friday's NewsHour:

The deadline to reach an alternative to mandatory budget cuts has come without a deal -- we'll look at the immediate impacts and those to come

Unrest still seethes in Egypt, putting the economy there in peril

A new documentary looks at "food insecurity" here in the U.S.

Plus, Mark Shields and David Brooks

While the above promo is written for the radio in the morning, it is a tentative snapshot of what we're covering on the show. With the ebb and flow of news headlines, chances are segments will be added, scrapped or moved to another night.

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