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Diagnosed with cancer five years ago, Monica Reed of Knoxville, Tennessee, was left with nearly $10,000 in medical bills she couldn’t pay. She has sacrificed, including cutting back on food. “You just do without some things to pay other things,” she says. (Jamar Coach for KHN and NPR)

In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation

Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.

TOPSHOT - South Korean demonstrators hold banners during a rally to mark International Women's Day as part of the country's #MeToo movement in Seoul on March 8, 2018. - The #MeToo movement has gradually gained ground in South Korea, which remains socially conservative and patriarchal in many respects despite its economic and technological advances. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Where the #MeToo movement stands, 5 years after Weinstein allegations came to light

#MeToo helped launch a wider examination of society's treatment of women in everyday life, at the workplace, and in Hollywood. But there remain institutional problems resistant to change.

OAKLAND, MARYLAND - AUGUST 23: Turbines from the Roth Rock wind farm spin on the spine of Backbone Mountain on August 23, 2022 near Oakland, Maryland. The 50,000 kilowatt Roth Rock project has 20 Nordex N90/2500 turbines and has been operating since 2011. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

An influential energy group sees reason for climate optimism

For the first time, the International Energy Agency projects that demand for fossil fuels will soon peak. It's nowhere close to the speed the world needs to stop climate change - but it's a big step.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 27: Dusty Baker Jr. #12 of the Houston Astros during a press conference ahead of Game One of the World Series between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies at Minute Maid Park on October 27, 2022 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)

The World Series begins with upstart Philly taking on Houston, the tainted juggernaut

It's the fourth World Series for the Houston Astros since 2017. They're tangling with the Philadelphia Phillies who made an unlikely playoff run to reach their first Series since 2009.

404277 01: Volunteer inmates wear orange prison uniforms during an overnight stay at the new Cass County Law Enforcement Center April 19, 2002 in Plattsmouth, NE. Civilians were to invited stay in the prison in order to work out potential bugs and test procedures. (Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images)

A reporter's memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons

Keri Blakinger, a reporter with The Marshall Project, received word this week that the Florida state prison system placed her book, Corrections in Ink, on a temporary ban.

FILE - Coast Guard boats patrol in front of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla on July 1, 2021. Residents of the Miami Beach building on the same street where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people were forced to evacuate on Thursday evening, Oct. 27, 2022, after officials determined the structure was unsafe and gave orders to leave. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

A Miami building is evacuated near the site of the deadly Surfside condo collapse

Residents of the 14-story building were forced to evacuate Thursday evening after officials determined the structure was unsafe and gave orders to leave.

Tucker Bubacz, 17-year-old senior, gets into the cab of a semi truck during the start of Eric Young’s CDL class for students at Williamsport High School in Hagerstown, Md. on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. The class teaches high school students how to become professional truck drivers after graduating. (Amanda Berg for NPR)

The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers

The trucking industry projects it will need to hire over a million drivers over the next decade. One idea that's gained some traction: Bring in younger drivers, starting in high school.

Sam Dunklau / WITF The Pennsylvania Capitol building in Aug. 2022.

Bill to simplify medical insurance in Pennsylvania heads to Governor’s desk

The measure aims to help doctors get insurance approval to treat patients.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady walks with Gisele Bundchen on the field after the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in Tampa, Fla. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano)

Quarterback Tom Brady and model Gisele Bundchen announce their divorce after 13 years

Brady and Bundchen posted statements on Instagram Friday, with each saying they had "amicably" reached the decision, months after Brady's decision to unretire. They have two children together.

In this photo provided by Cal State LA, Maurice Hastings smiles at a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court where a judge dismissed his conviction for murder after new DNA evidence exonerated him, Oct. 20, 2022, in Los Angeles. (J. Emilio Flores/Cal State LA via AP)

DNA evidence has freed a California man imprisoned for more than 38 years

Maurice Hastings spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 murder and two attempted murders. He was released after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to another person, the L.A. County DA said.

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