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The Affordable Care Act survived its second Supreme Court test in three years, raising odds for its survival but by no means ending the legal and…

Each of the 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series is accompanied with a caption. For this panel, he wrote in 1941: "In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry."

Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

Why Observing Prostate Cancers Is Gaining Ground On Surgery

An panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health suggests doctors should rethink their approach to treating prostate cancers. One of the recommendations is most low-risk prostate tumors shouldn't be labeled as cancer in the first place.

The winning IMPCT team poses with former President Bill Clinton and (at far right) Philip Hult, co-chairman, EF Education First. The team members (from left) are Andres Escobar, Juan Diego Prudot, Taylor Scobbie and An-Nung Chen

They Had A Million-Dollar Idea About Better Day Care In Urban Slums

The challenge to university students around the world: Come up with a way to provide quality education to slum kids under age 6. And the winner of the $1 million Hult Prize is ...

Morris Robinson in the Los Angeles Opera's 2009 production of <em>The Magic Flute.</em>

From Football To Opera: Singer Morris Robinson Takes Center Stage

Once Morris Robinson dreamed of fame on the football field. Now, he's moving audiences across the world with the power of his voice, and changing the face of opera.

In most states, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure have to receive dialysis as an emergency treatment in hospital emergency rooms. Some advocates say kidney transplants for undocumented immigrants would be a cheaper way to treat the problem.

Transplants A Cheaper, Better Option For Undocumented Immigrants With Kidney Failure

Across the country, there are about 6,500 undocumented immigrants with kidney failure, according to the National Institutes of Health. What kind of care they get depends on where they live.

Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh (left) and Neil Gorsuch attend the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House last year.

Ginsburg Passing The Liberal Torch: Takeaways From A Big Supreme Court Term

The new swing vote on the court is the conservative chief justice; Trump's appointees are going different directions; and Justice Ginsburg appears to be handing off the liberal torch to Justice Kagan.

Under one redistricting proposal, fast-growing parts of the Northland, like Staley Farms, could be in one district while older, less affluent neighborhoods would be in a different district. Some people support that change while others say it would be negative for the Northland.

Kansas City Council district changes could mean a louder voice for lower-income Northland residents

An advisory commission recommends a horizontal split that would divide the Northland into two council districts based on socioeconomic status. The split is designed to give voters in less affluent neighborhoods more political access and representation.

A group of people in Kansas City Chiefs shirts sit at a bar, with large television screens behind them.

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Missouri lawmakers try again to legalize sports betting

On the day the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Cincinnati Bengals to earn their latest Super Bowl trip, 1,550 people tried and failed 4,571 times to place a bet on the game. Across Missouri, more than 136,000 transactions were blocked on game day.

Rep. Mark Alford ready for big redistricting changes to his Kansas City-area district

The Cass County Republican represents a safe GOP seat in the Kansas City area and mid-Missouri. But that could change if the Missouri legislature decides to redraw the state's congressional districts.

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