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Global Cities Get Help Preparing for Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather
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Understanding Angelina Jolie's Decision to Undergo Preventative Double Masectomy
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HatCam Goes Running: PBS NewsHour Team Takes 4th of 17 in Charity Race
Watch Video Social media editor Colleen Shalby sported NewsHour's infamous HatCam Wednesday as she ran ACLI Capitol Challenge. Video edited by Meena Ganesan Members of Congress, journalists, judges and agency staffers ran on common ground...
Study Pinpoints Link Between Fitness and Cancer in Men
Photo courtesy: Flickr user Josiah Mackenzie There's new evidence out today that being fit reduces your risk for getting cancer. The study, released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, looked at the link between fitness...
How Cities Are Preparing for the Next Big Disaster
Homes in the Rockaways, N.Y., were severely damaged during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Photo by Spencer Platt/ Getty Images. Last fall Hurricane Sandy crippled sections of the East Coast of North America. It left New York City and cities in...
Photographer Jon Lowenstein Explores 'Chicago's Bloody Year'
Photo by Jon Lowenstein/NOOR Image Collective. For the past 10 years photographer Jon Lowenstein has turned his lens to the slow-moving forces shaping daily life for the people of Chicago's South Side, chronicling the demolition of some of the...