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The goal is to reduce food waste in landfills by 75%. But the measure is proving to be a challenge for both households and businesses.

Salem Hospital in Oregon has been crowded for weeks. Patients are doubled up in rooms. Nurses experience panic over the workload and sadness over the unvaccinated. Then they get back to work.

Havana-born writer Achy Obejas returns to her native city with a novel called Ruins. It's a bittersweet portrait of Cuban life in the mid-1990s.

Scientists are beginning to come up with answers to the question of how long antibodies from an infection can protect you — and what they'll protect you from.

The three white men sentenced to life in prison for murdering Ahmaud Arbery are now standing trial on federal hate crime charges. At issue is whether the men targeted Arbery because he was Black.

Robert Siegel talks with artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley about their collaborative piece, Stability And Other Tenuous Positions.

Many Olympic athletes competing in Beijing face tracks and terrain they've never competed on before because of COVID-19 limitations. They are scrambling to learn the turf during test runs.

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.

The Smithsonian Institution has returned more than 200 sacred artifacts to the Yurok Indian tribe in Northern California in one the largest repatriations of Native American artifacts in U.S. history. "Words can't explain how we feel," says Thomas O'Rourke, chairman of the Yurok tribe. "Today, when I thought about it, I cried."

William Faulkner spent two years as the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, where many of his lectures and readings were recorded. Stephen Railton, an English professor at UVA, has digitized those recordings and made them available online.