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2nd Annual Jacksonville's Longest Table Is Tonight

If you work downtown you may notice quite a few people headed toward the Jax Chamber building next to the Main Street Bridge this evening.They’ll be…

The Miraculous Love Kids music school founder Lanny Cordola (top left) stands with Madina Mohammadi (top center), Mursal (top right) and other students outside their rehearsal space in Kabul. Their favorite song is "Fragile" by Sting. "What we're trying to do with music is not singing and dancing and fancy stuff," Cordola says. "You know, these are songs of compassion and hope and healing."

An American Rock Musician Teaches Guitar To Kabul's Street Kids

Lanny Cordola has played guitar with Guns N' Roses and the Beach Boys. Now he devotes himself to teaching music to Afghan street children, most of them girls. He also helps pay for their schooling.

Mary McLeod Bethune's Legacy Backed To Replace Confederate Florida Statue In Washington

A statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune is getting support in both chambers of the Legislature as a replacement for a Confederate…

Yaritza Martinez holds her son, Yariel, during a visit to Children's National Health System in Washington D.C. She was infected with the Zika virus while pregnant, but Yariel seems to be doing fine.

A Baby Exposed To Zika Virus Is Doing Well, One Year Later

Yaritza Martinez was infected with the Zika virus when she was 12 weeks pregnant. Doctors in Washington, D.C., are studying her son and other children to see if the virus has affected their health.

Tippi Hedren, with her daughter Melanie Griffith and granddaughter Dakota Johnson at a 2015 event.

3 Generations Of Actresses Reflect On Hollywood, Harassment — And Hitchcock

Actress Tippi Hedren talks with her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson, about how being a woman in Hollywood has — and hasn't — changed over the years.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — and its controversial center for innovation — is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and has its headquarters outside D.C., in Woodlawn, Md.

Canadians Root For An Underdog Health Policy Idea From The U.S.

A center created by the Affordable Care Act to foster innovations in health care is at risk in Donald Trump's U.S. But some Canadian health analysts see it as a model for curbing health care's cost.

The Big Idea Behind Big Data

As we find our way in a world shaped by Big Data, it's not the reams of information we gather but the networks they illuminate that's the newest addition to science's index of things, says Adam Frank.

First Coast Adds More Than 15,000 Jobs In One Year Period While Statewide Unemployment Drops

The Jacksonville area added 15,600 new private-sector jobs in the last year, according to Gov. Rick Scott’s office.Jacksonville’s unemployment rate also…

11/17/17: Florida Blue Bans Oxycontin, Irma Recovery, Political Commentator Van Jones

This week we’re discussing fighting the opioid crisis at Florida’s pharmacies along with paying claims and paying for cleaning up two months after…

Ingrained Prejudices Collide With Wartime Trauma In 'Mudbound'

Dee Rees' sweeping epic follows two families in the Mississippi Delta during the 1940s. Reviewer Justin Chang says Mudbound is "easily one of the year's most ambitious American movies."

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