U.S. Women Look To Defend Gold In Water Polo On Friday
The U.S. women's water polo team will be back in the pool on Friday, hungry for a second consecutive Olympic gold medal.The women made it to the gold medal match after a decisive victory Wednesday...
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View ArticleA Farewell From Rio, Where The 2016 Games Are Set To Wrap Up
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View ArticleAfter Second Gold, Boxer Claressa Shields Looks Ahead To What's Next
One of the last medals awarded at the Rio Olympics went to a 21-year-old middleweight boxer from Flint, Mich.: Claressa Shields.It was gold. With that Sunday victory, Shields became the first U.S....
View ArticleAfter Going For Gold, Athletes Can Feel The Post-Olympic Blues
The Rio Olympics are in the rear-view mirror. Thousands of athletes have returned home to resume their lives. But for many, this post-Olympic period can be a rough one, with depression and anxiety...
View ArticleImproved U.S.-Cuba Relations Are Creating A Surge Of Cuban Migrants
You might assume that with the thawing of relations between Cuba and the U.S., Cubans would see positive change at home, and less reason to attempt the perilous water crossing to Florida. You'd assume...
View ArticleMaking Art Off The Grid: A Month-Long Residency At A Remote National Park
Imagine: the chance to live on an uninhabited tropical island for a month, off the grid, creating art.No phone, no television, no Internet.Instead, spectacular night skies, crystalline turquoise waters...
View ArticleView From Nearly 99: Frances Kolarek Reflects On Politics And Change
A week away from turning 99 years old, Frances Kolarek has a long view of life and presidential elections.Born in 1917, three years before women won the right to vote, she cast her first presidential...
View ArticleWith Trump Tapping Into Economic Fears, Wisconsin Turns Red For First TIme...
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View ArticleDespite Economic Troubles, Residents Of Kansas Town Remain Proud
What becomes of a town when its heyday has passed? What convinces young people to stay when good jobs vanish? Those are questions many towns across America have been trying to answer for years. And...
View ArticlePig Farming In Iowa Means Dirt Under Your Fingernails And A Strong Sense Of...
You want to find pigs? Go to Iowa. It's the largest pork producer in the country. The ratio of pigs to people in Iowa is about 7 to 1. I've had a hankering to spend some time on a farm for my series...
View ArticleA Student's Perspective On Mississippi: Beautiful, Engulfing And Sometimes...
Every day on his way to class, Terrence Johnson walks by a bronze statue and thinks about history. The statue depicts James Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African-American to enroll at the...
View ArticleA Night At Red's Juke Joint In The Mississippi Delta Is A True Blues Experience
If you're in Clarksdale, Miss., home of the Delta blues, everybody says you have to go to Red's juke joint. The hole-in-the-wall club is the real deal. It's just a small room, a few tables and a fridge...
View ArticleHow To Make Boring Sell: In A Jiffy
We hear a lot about U.S. companies laying off workers and shipping jobs overseas. So, amid the global pressures to downsize, how do you hang onto your workforce? We went looking for answers in Chelsea,...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of The Mississippi Delta Chinese
Think of the Mississippi Delta. Maybe you imagine cotton fields, sharecroppers and blues music. It's been all that. But for more than a century, the Delta has also been a magnet for immigrants. I was...
View ArticleHamtramck, Michigan: An Evolving City Of Immigrants
Pick a street corner in downtown Hamtramck, Mich., and you'll be struck by the incredible mix of cultures crammed into this tiny, 2-square-mile city. A Catholic church across the street from a mosque....
View ArticleAmid Talk Of Tariffs, What Happens To Companies That Straddle The Border?
Think about the avocados you mash for your Super Bowl guacamole, or the fresh tomatoes you enjoy in the winter. There's a good chance they came from Mexico. Our southern neighbor is the United States'...
View ArticleWhen The Border Is Just Next Door, Crossing It Is A Fact Of (Daily) Life
Depending on where you sit, the U.S.-Mexico border is: a) a dangerous frontier that allows drug traffickers and illegal immigrants to cross freely into the U.S. or b) a familiar frontier that is...
View ArticlePHOTOS: The Creamy, Sculpted Dunes Of White Sands National Monument
Before we headed out on our latest road trip for the Our Land series, we put a call out on social media, asking for ideas of places we should go in Arizona and New Mexico. Shannon Miller's suggestion...
View ArticleIn Rural Alaska, A Young Doctor Walks To His Patient's Bedside
In rural Alaska, providing health care means overcoming a lot of hurdles. Fickle weather that can leave patients stranded, for one. Also: complicated geography. Many Alaskan villages have no roads...
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