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  • President Joe Biden will address a joint session of Congress for the first time on April 28. Biden is expected to speak at 9:00 p.m. ET.
  • President Biden is giving an address on plans to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that prompted America's involvement in its longest war. Watch his remarks live starting at 2:15 p.m.
  • Inspired by the funny, quirky side of children’s TV pioneer Fred Rogers, this imaginative series follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie. Donkey Hodie premieres May 3 at 10:00 a.m. on VPM.
  • Meet farmers taking what they grow to the next level by creating value-added products.At Wandering Cow Farm, Peggy Singlemann learns about raising sheep for wool. Keith Nevison visits Tonoloway Farm and tastes tree syrups including a unique black walnut variety.
  • Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Watch on VPM PBS starting April 5 at 8:00 p.m.
  • President Biden is presenting his next big legislative move: infrastructure. The "Build Back Better" plan is expected to include funding for physical infrastructure like roads and bridges as well as for clean energy and energy efficiency projects. Watch his remarks live.
  • President Biden is holding his first news conference at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 25 and is expected to field questions on a wide range of topics, from the coronavirus to the influx of migrants at the border and his upcoming infrastructure effort.
  • Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered journals and interviews with Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als and more.
  • When MIT Media Lab researcher and “poet of code” Joy Buolamwini discovers most facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces or women with accuracy, she joins the fight to expose the threats to civil liberties posed by an increasingly data-driven, automated world.
  • President Biden is giving the first prime-time address of his presidency to mark one year of the coronavirus pandemic, a day after Congress passed a massive relief package. More than 500,000 people have died from the virus in the U.S.