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Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, right, huddles with Preston Padden, president of network distribution for Fox, during a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in May 1995. A generation later, Padden says Murdoch is unfit to hold the licenses for local television stations due to Fox News.

A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations

Preston Padden helped Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox broadcast network in the 1990s. Now he argues Murdoch has proved unfit to hold the license for a Philadelphia station.

Kayce Atencio, who had a heart attack when he was 19, was unable to rent an apartment for years because of bad credit attributed in part to thousands of dollars of medical debt. "It always felt like I just couldn't get a leg up," says Atencio, one of millions of Americans whose access to housing is threatened by medical debt.

Medical debt nearly pushed this family into homelessness. Millions more are at risk

Saddled with debt from health care, many Americans are forced into painful tradeoffs. And some are losing their homes.

Kim Petras, the 30-year-old German-born pop singer, is currently in the process of figuring out where she wants to be in the pop music echelon.

The misplaced promise of Kim Petras

With her debut album, 'Feed the Beast,' the rising pop star is still in the process of figuring out where she wants to be in the pop music echelon.

Corporate Dirty Tricks And Romance In 'Duplicity'

Corporate dirty tricks aren't just for the news headlines anymore. Now, they provide the backdrop for a new film — part romance, part spy thriller. In the movie Duplicity, which opened Friday, former spies Julia Roberts and Clive Owen go undercover with a pair of conglomerates to steal the plans for a multimillion dollar product. Writer-director Tony Gilroy talks to Jacki Lyden about his densely plotted romantic thriller.

Jesse Watters debuts as host of Fox News' 8 p.m. weekday show on Monday. He considers himself a "political humorist," offering a sharp contrast with predecessors Tucker Carlson and Bill O'Reilly.

Fox's newest star Jesse Watters boasts a wink, a smirk, and a trail of outrage

Jesse Watters, who has worked, smirked, and opined for Fox his entire professional career, takes the reins on Monday of Fox News' 8 p.m. weekday show, permanently replacing fired star Tucker Carlson.

Players on both teams celebrated on the field after the HBCU Swingman Classic concluded.

At the HBCU Swingman Classic, pro baseball confronts its decline in Black players

Jackie Robinson's sport is at a low point in professional Black American representation. An exhibition game spearheaded by Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. and others aims to help change that.

Theoretical physicist and YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder, shown in a photo taken in December at the University of Oxford in England, turned to YouTube "to keep my sanity" during the dark days of the pandemic.

She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity

This theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video several times a month, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.

Incident In Charlottesville Will Make Us Stronger, Gov. McAuliffe Says

David Greene talks to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe about the protests in Charlottesville. Some say the police didn't do enough to prevent the attack by a white nationalist that left one person dead.

A clerk hands a ballot to a voter on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022, in Lewiston, Maine. The state is one of 50 American voting jurisdictions to have moved to a ranked choice voting system, and more places may follow next year.

Ranked choice is 'the hot reform' in democracy. Here's what you should know about it

Roughly 50 American voting jurisdictions have now moved to a ranked choice voting system, and it's shaping up to be one of the political subplots of 2024.

When PTO stands for 'pretend time off': Doctors struggle to take real breaks

What's a typical vacation activity for doctors? Work. A new study finds that most physicians do work on a typical day off. In this essay, a family doctor considers why that is and why it matters.

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