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While the Peoria Riverfront Museum was finally able to reopen July 1 under Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan, its "high touch" exhibits remain closed, and school field trips have been canceled.

No 'Hands-On,' No Field Trips: Riverfront Museum Adapting To COVID-19 Realities

This is the second of two stories exploring how the Peoria Riverfront Museum has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. This story was produced in...

The Global Leaders Who Have Been Effective During The Coronavirus

While many world leaders have seen their popularity increase during the pandemic, only a few seem to have captured the national mood in a way that has helped them lead their citizens.

President Trump delivers remarks at the beginning of a 2017 meeting with his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. Andrea Bernstein's new book, <em>American Oligarchs,</em> argues that both the Trump and Kushner families have benefited from the intersection of money and politics.

'American Oligarchs' Reveals How Trump, Kushner Families Learned To Work The System

Author Andrea Bernstein says Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have benefited from family connections — and the influence of money in politics.

Getting Real About Race: A Discussion In Cleveland

Julia Shearson of CAIR, former Ohio state senator Nina Turner, Akron Honey Company CEO Wesley Bright, and Brad Whitehead of the Fund for Our Economic Future discuss race relations in Cleveland, Ohio.

New documentary highlights the struggles of teenage farm workers in California

Fruits of Labor is a new documentary from director Emily Cohen Ibañez. It follows a teenage farm worker Ashley Pavon as she navigates working long hours and tries to graduate from high school.

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny and Woody Norman as Jesse in <em>C'mon C'mon. </em>

Mike Mills' 'C'mon C'mon' feels like a shared memory

Mills, who also wrote and directed Beginners and 20th Century Women, says his films all ask, "What are you going to remember? Who are you going to remember it with or what are you forgetting?"

An Afghan woman waits in the makeshift clinic organized by World Vision at a settlement near Herat, Afghanistan.

Parents selling children shows desperation in Afghanistan

Many of Afghanistan's growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions as their nation spirals into a deeper poverty.

Left-handed, Elizabeth Cotten turned the guitar so the bass strings were at the bottom, therefore "backwards." She used her thumb to play the melody and her fingers for the low notes.

How Elizabeth Cotten's music fueled the folk revival

Although inducted into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, her contributions haven't always been properly acknowledged.

Automation has become a hot-button issue at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The shipping industry is pushing for more automation of the work loading and unloading ships. But dockworkers warn robots will only kill American jobs.

Before the holiday season, workers at America's busiest ports are fighting the robots

As the shipping industry pushes for more automation at West Coast ports, the powerful union representing dockworkers is fighting back, saying robots will only kill good American jobs.

This map from the nonprofit March of Dimes shows maternity care deserts across the U.S. in 2020.

Millions of Americans are losing access to maternal care. Here's what can be done

A report from the nonprofit March of Dimes finds that 36% of counties in the U.S. are "maternity care deserts," meaning they have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no obstetric providers.

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