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Thanksgiving Holiday Travelers Likely To Face Travel Challenges

5:59am November 21, 2017

by David Schaper

A record number of Americans will be jamming airports, train stations and highways. Those hitting the road will find gas prices 40 cents a gallon higher on average than they were a year ago.

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Restoring Power To Puerto Rico Remains A Herculean Task

5:58am November 21, 2017

by Greg Allen

Efforts to restore the power grid have suffered setbacks in recent days. It's one reason more than 150,000 Puerto Ricans have left the island for Florida and other states since Hurricane Maria.

A Guatemalan immigrant carves the Thanksgiving turkey in November 2016 in Stamford, Conn.

Americans Say To Pass The Turkey, Not The Politics, At Thanksgiving This Year

5:16am November 21, 2017

by Jessica Taylor

According to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 58 percent of Americans celebrating the holiday dread having to talk politics around the dinner table this holiday, an uptick from one year ago.

Nick Vargas talks with Dr. Kathryn Hall at The Source, an LGBT center in Visalia, Calif. Hall says that time and time again, her patients tell her they're afraid to come out to their other doctors.

'Here It Goes': Coming Out To Your Doctor In Rural America

5:06am November 21, 2017

by Ezra David Romero

For LGBTQ Americans in rural areas, finding a sympathetic physician can be difficult. And that challenge makes getting appropriate health care even harder.

A family evacuated their apartment complex in west Houston, where high water coming from the Addicks Reservoir flooded the area after Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 30th.

Scientists Glimpse Houston's Flooded Future In Updated Rainfall Data

12:25am November 21, 2017

by Christopher Joyce

Hurricane Harvey's deluge left some homeowners and politicians wondering whether the whole system for predicting floods is any good. Scientists are hoping better data can lead to better flood maps.

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Parishioners pray together May 18 at the Notre Dame D'Haiti Catholic Church in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. The prayer service touched on the church's concern about the outcome of the decision on extending the Temporary Protected Status for 50,

U.S. Cancels Program For Recent Haitian Immigrants; They Must Leave By 2019

9:43pm November 20, 2017

by Leila Fadel

The Department of Homeland Security announced that Haitians living in the United States since a catastrophic 2010 earthquake will have to return to their home.

By 1495, Christopher Columbus was in trouble. The riches he had imagined finding in Asia were not materializing in the New World, and the costs of his voyages were mounting. Sending indigenous people back to Europe as slaves became his solution.

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An American Secret: The Untold Story Of Native American Enslavement

9:18pm November 20, 2017

From the time of Columbus until the 1900s, as many as five million Native Americans were enslaved. This week, we explore that history, and the psychological reasons it stayed hidden in plain sight.

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Charlie Rose Is Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Eight Women

7:28pm November 20, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

The star of the highly regarded PBS talk show Charlie Rose and co-host of CBS This Morning issued a statement apologizing for his actions.

The Trump administration is filing a lawsuit to block AT&T's purchase of a Time Warner, an $85 billion deal. Time Warner is the parent company of CNN, a frequent target of President Trump's ire at the media.

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Justice Department Sues To Block AT&T's Merger With Time Warner

6:21pm November 20, 2017

by Alina Selyukh

DOJ's case against the merger argues that the companies would control so much of both what people watch and how they watch it, that it could mean higher prices for both consumers and competitors.

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Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama Touched by an Angel, has died at age 86.

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Della Reese, 'Touched By An Angel' Star And Singer, Dies At 86

6:16pm November 20, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

When she was cast as an angel boss on the long-running CBS spiritual drama, Reese had been famous for decades as a gospel-influenced R&B performer, TV guest star and talk show fixture.