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U.S. Demands Cambodia Repay Loan From Vietnam War Era

Cambodia owes more than $500 million for when the nation borrowed to help feed refugees impacted by the war. The U.S. helped create many of those refugees through its bombing of eastern Cambodia.

The Unconventional Poetry Of Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess, the African-American poet from Detroit, won this year's Pulitzer in poetry for a collection that shines a different light on minstrel shows.

Critics of President Trump's travel ban hold signs during a news conference with Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin on June 30 in Honolulu.

U.S. Challenges Hawaii Judge's Expansion of Relatives Exempt From Travel Ban

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to block the lower court's ruling on "close family," which also says arrangements with refugee resettlement agencies are a path into the country.

At the Girls Build summer camps in Oregon, Araceli Eide, Kandyce Brown and Aleeyah Coleman learn how to pour concrete, shingle sandbox roofs and use power tools, but instructors say the real skills these young girls gain are increased confidence and fearlessness.

At Summer Camp, Girls Build Sandboxes And Confidence In Their Own Abilities

In Portland, Ore., little girls are soldering copper, pouring concrete and running electrical wiring. At the Girls Build camp, local tradeswomen teach them the ins and outs of construction.

After Closing Liquor Stores, Nebraska Town Pushes For Renewal

It's been three months since state officials closed four liquor stores in Whiteclay, Neb. As the small town's primary source of income, that has affects both good and bad. The state-backed Whiteclay Task Force is plotting the town's future as dilapidated buildings are being razed and replaced with green space. Even the regulars who drank openly day and night and passed out on the sidewalks and in the alleys are gone.

Eleanor Roosevelt presides over the table at a dinner celebrating her husband's victory in the 1932 Democratic presidential primary. Author Laura Shapiro notes that later, as first lady, Roosevelt would seem "apathetic about what was on her plate" while in the White House.

'What She Ate' Reveals The Plates And Palates Of 6 Notable Women

Laura Shapiro has likened her method of biographical research to "standing in line at the supermarket and peering into the other carts." Critic Maureen Corrigan says her resulting book is fascinating.

Cynthia Nixon (left) and Laura Linney alternate playing the roles of Regina (left) and Birdie in <em>The Little Foxes</em>.

2 Stars Share The Stage, And The Roles, In 'Little Foxes'

"Great parts are meant to be played; they're not meant to be owned," says Laura Linney. So she and Cynthia Nixon have agreed to switch roles for each performance of Lillian Hellman's 1939 melodrama.

Bone broth has become so popular these days that the bones used to make it are getting harder — and more expensive — for broth retailers to source.

Broth-Loving Hipsters Are Pushing Up The Price Of Bones

With bone broth mania sweeping parts of the U.S. (we see you, LA), cheap bones are harder to come by. Some broth makers are moving away from the standard beef and chicken to new bones — like alpaca.

Mimosa cake is made of layers of sponge cake brushed with citrus liqueur and liberally spread with pastry cream, then topped with small cubes of even more sponge cake that are meant to mimic the small blooms of the mimosa flower. It's the taste of the Festa della Donna, an Italian holiday when women of all ages leave the menfolk behind to celebrate each other.

On Italy's Feminist Holiday, Women Have Their Cake And Eat It, Too

Leave it to the Italians to take a holiday steeped in women's rights and turn it into Festa Della Donna, when women leave menfolk behind to celebrate each other with flowers, wine and above all, cake.

Refugees Are Turned Back And A Rembrandt Goes Missing In Suspenseful 'Heretics'

Leonardo Padura's new novel opens in 1939, when a ship carrying Jewish refugees is turned away from Cuba. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Heretics "spans and defies literary categories."

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