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Filmmaker Andrea Arnold On 'American Honey' And Preserving Mystery In Film

Arnold's latest film, which won the Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of a group of abandoned teenagers who travel together selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door.

Tony Johnson sits on his bed with his dog, Dash, in the one-room home he shares with his wife, Karen Johnson, in a care facility in Burlington, Wash. on April 13, 2022. Johnson was one of the first people to get COVID-19 in Washington state in April of 2020. His left leg had to be amputated due to lack of wound care after he developed blood clots in his feet while on a ventilator.

For two years, this Washington island has grappled with the long reach of COVID

The virus hit Whidbey Island early in 2020, and photojournalist Lynn Johnson was there. A million deaths later, we return to see how the pandemic has subtly but indelibly altered life there forever.

Panel Round Two

More questions for the panel ... A Norm'Easter, The Second Oldest Profession, Rum-Pee-Pum-Pum, and We Finally Learn Her Secret.

A car with Uber and Lyft stickers at Los Angeles International Airport. Uber dominates the fast-growing ride-hailing business. But Lyft is waging a spirited battle to keep up.<strong></strong>

In The Battle Between Lyft And Uber, The Focus Is On Drivers

Users say the driver-passenger relationship is different: Lyft is "your friend with a car"; Uber is "everyone's private driver." Still, competition is so great that Uber wooed rival drivers covertly.

Kevin McCarthy, then in the California Assembly, walks to the governor's office at the Capitol in Sacramento in 2006.

Kevin McCarthy Could Be The Next Speaker. Is He Still A 'Bakersfield Boy'?

Many of McCarthy's Bakersfield, Calif., constituents like him, but he's riled some Latinos over immigration and been criticized by conservatives for compromising.

A Departing Bank Regulator's Advice To Stave Off Another Financial Crisis

Departing Federal Reserve Board member Daniel Tarullo was a key architect of post-crisis financial reforms. He talks about how those reforms have worked and what could help in the future.

Felecia Hatcher (left) and Derick Pearson (right) are co-founders of Code Fever and Black Tech Week.

Black Tech Weekend Debuts In Miami To Connect Entrepreneurs Of Color With Capital, Resources

Felecia Hatcher and Derick Pearson started their nonprofit Code Fever Miami three years ago. The husband and wife duo wanted to use their background in...

White-footed mice are efficient transmitters of Lyme disease in the Northeast. They infect up to 95 percent of the ticks that feed on them. But it's people who create the conditions for Lyme outbreaks by building homes in the animals' habitat.

Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast

Lyme disease is spreading, and this summer is shaping up as a whopper. Why has the tick-borne illness gotten so bad? The answer traces back to something the colonists did more than 200 years ago.

Researchers Find Racial Wage Gap Has Grown

Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute and Adia Harvey Wingfield of Washington University in St. Louis discuss a new study finding a greater racial wage gap in 2015 than in 1979.

Rep. Harris: Tax Plan Is A Good Compromise Of House, Senate Measures

Republicans have released the entire text of their tax overhaul bill. David Greene talks to Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland about the 500-page bill that was released Friday night.

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