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Liane Hansen speaks to Diane Roberts and poet E. Ethelbert Miller about race and identity in America today. The question: Which is more fundamental, more essential — gender or race? Do you throw your support to the white woman or the black man? Whose "turn" is it?

State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages for denying a claim on a house destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The judge in the case ruled earlier that the company had failed to prove that damage to the house in question was caused by water and not wind. Wind damage is covered under a regular homeowners' insurance policy, but damage from water is not.

Trevor Paglen discusses military black ops patches, which he's collected in a a new art and history book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished above 14,000 Thursday for the first time, adding 82 points to close at 14,000.41. The market has been spiraling upward in recent weeks, as many U.S. companies thrive on a booming world economy.

The Senate confirmed ex-Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital, after President Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr.

As the Jan. 6 hearings have played out, there has been only some, if any, movement in people's views of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but independents' views have changed since a December poll.

The whopping 6 feet of snow was one of the top three heaviest snowfalls in recorded history for the Buffalo region.

Hear the singer discuss her new album, Master of My Make Believe, and describe her attempts to "broaden the lane" of what constitutes pop music.

Presidential candidates are weighing in on how to address the subprime mortgage crisis. Hillary Clinton is calling for a freeze on adjustable mortgage rates. Barack Obama wants to eliminate predatory lending. And Mitt Romney wants the FHA to help more homeowners. But that's just one of the economic issues addressed by the candidates.

The teams the experts most expected to advance survive three rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. It's rare for four No. 1 seeds to be alive so deep into the tournament. But Florida, Kansas, Ohio State and North Carolina play on.