• Tune into these artists for the soundtrack of 2017

    Tune into these artists for the soundtrack of 2017

    Dec 29, 2017 11:20 PM EDT

    ... boisterous music. And I love Kesha. Jeffrey Brown: All right, Mikael, I think you have got a couple of big names for us, too, to start. Mikael Wood: Sure, one of the biggest, who is Taylor Swift, of course. The year started off a little rocky for her. She put ...

  • WATCH: Senate expected to continue debate of House tax bill

    WATCH: Senate expected to continue debate of House tax bill

    Nov 30, 2017 03:37 PM EDT

    ... start debating the bill. Wednesday’s vote potentially could pave the way for the Senate to pass the package later this week. The Senate could start voting on amendments Thursday evening. Opposition to the tax “trigger” could doom a delicately negotiated proposal aimed at mollifying deficit hawks who worry that ...

  • In poet John Keats’ letters, a man full of life just before he died

    In poet John Keats’ letters, a man full of life just before he died

    Nov 20, 2017 11:18 PM EDT

    ... to listen to the symphony of the Autumn world. Anne McCarthy, Penn State University - "This living hand, now warm and capable" The Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have predicted John Keats’ death almost two years before it happened. The two poets met then on Hampstead Heath, in the ...

  • GOP tax bill would be broadest tax code rewrite in 30 years

    GOP tax bill would be broadest tax code rewrite in 30 years

    Nov 03, 2017 12:34 PM EDT

    ... today's seven personal income tax brackets into just four: 12 percent, 25 percent, 35 percent and 39.6 percent. —The 25 percent rate would start at $45,000 for individuals and $90,000 for married couples. —The 35 percent rate would apply to family income exceeding $260,000 and ...

  • Senate votes to debate GOP health care bill

    Senate votes to debate GOP health care bill

    Jul 25, 2017 07:28 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — With Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie, the Senate voted by a hair Tuesday to start debating Republican legislation to tear down much of the Obama health care law. The vote gives President Donald Trump and GOP leaders a crucial initial victory but launches a weeklong ...

  • Deep in coal country, West Virginia patients speak out about GOP health bill

    Deep in coal country, West Virginia patients speak out about GOP health bill

    Jul 11, 2017 11:23 PM EDT

    ... country better. But if we ain't got that medical, we won't have nothing. And that's how people in Mingo County live. JERINEL TAYLOR, Patient, Williamson Health & Wellness Center: My name is Jerinel Taylor. I'm 58 years old. I have diabetes. You have to have the medication ...

  • Senate GOP leaders hope for health care vote next week

    Senate GOP leaders hope for health care vote next week

    Jul 11, 2017 12:01 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are hoping to stage a climactic vote on their health care bill next week, though internal rifts over divisive issues like coverage requirements and Medicaid cuts leave the timing and even the measure's fate in question. "We need to start voting" on the GOP bill scuttling ...

  • A public housing project where healthy living is the foundation

    A public housing project where healthy living is the foundation

    Jul 07, 2017 11:37 PM EDT

    In downtown Denver, a recently built public housing project is designed to foster healthy living, with access to nutritious food, access to doctors and ease of exercise. Jeffrey Brown reports.

  • Writing a bill in private by either party is not unusual

    Writing a bill in private by either party is not unusual

    Jun 20, 2017 10:57 AM EDT

    WASHINGTON — The Republican effort to secretly craft a health care bill and whisk it through the Senate is drawing fire from members of both parties. But it's not uncommon for either party to draft bills or resolve stubborn final hurdles behind closed doors, foregoing the step-by-step, civics-book version of how Congress works.

  • 19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading

    19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading

    May 26, 2017 09:00 PM EDT

    It’s almost summer -- a time to catch up on missed readings, turn back to old favorites, and discover new ones. For the best summer reads, we turned two authors who own independent bookstores: Louise Erdrich, who owns Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, and Emma Straub, who co-owns Books are Magic in Brooklyn.