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María Chavalan is from a persecuted ethnic group in Guatemala. She fled to the U-S in 2015. Now, ICE is pressuring her to buy a ticket back to Guatemala,…

Maxwell Kirsner built sets for big events. Then he, his fiancée and their coworkers were laid off. Kirsner says he's optimistic the city will make it back, but he's worried how long that will take.

Sharbat Gula arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation effort, Italy's government said Thursday. Premier Mario Draghi's office said Italy organized her evacuation after she asked for help.

In 1997, Los Angeles became one of the first U.S. cities to pass a living wage law. It raised pay and benefits for those who work for the city or for businesses that contract with the city. Some workers have seen a rise in their living standards.

Elijah McCoy, the revolutionary Black inventor who was born 178 years ago today, came up with an idea for an automatic lubricator that kept engines oiled while they ran.

Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, her weight and even her fans. But when she sang, nothing else mattered. Biographer Nadine Cohodas talks about Washington's life and music.

After decades conducting symphony orchestras and composing classical music, Andre Previn records a solo jazz album. The musical polymath has written scores for hit musicals like Gigi and Kiss Me Kate.

The architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White built some of this country's greatest buildings, from the original Penn Station in New York to Washington's National Museum of American History.

The defendants allegedly carried out a plot to steal $250 million from a nutrition program meant to serve needy children in Minnesota. Officials called it a "brazen scheme of staggering proportions."

In his book, I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert takes on everything from old people and endangered animals to National Public Radio. Not a big fan of books, Colbert says he is a big fan of sales.