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Money to build the AcelorMittal Orbit Tower came from Britain's richest man, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. At 377 feet high, it's Britai's largest public work of art. The design of the tower has generated a lot of criticism.

More and more nonprofits are bringing Americans with opposing political views together for civil discussions on divisive issues. Critics question whether these encounters produce lasting results.

Summer is a popular season for blockbuster movies and for promotion of upcoming attractions. The sequel to the movie Top Gun won’t be out for nearly a…

Some Democratic Senate hopefuls have to be more measured than others in their responses to the recent Supreme Court decision.

Surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross CHRIS GIANNOU (YAW-new). For almost 15 years he has been a surgeon in war torn parts of the world in Burundi, Somalia, and in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. As such he has seen the devastation on human beings from landmines GIANNOU is currently leading the Red Cross's campaign for a ban on anti-personnel landmines worldwide, which kill or injure hundreds of civilians each week. (GIANNOU has been on the show a number of times. He wrote a memoir in 1994 about his work in the refugee camp, "Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut." (Published by Olive Branch

A visit to a classic, hole-in-the-wall blues bar in Clarksdale, Miss., where owner Red Paden enlightens us about the blues and the Delta.

An NPR investigation revealed how the emergency organization funneled its resources away from storm victims to create an "illusion of mass care." The Red Cross tells PBS NewsHour that's not true.

Decades of effort to raise awareness of breast cancer hasn't helped to reduce the death toll once it spreads. One woman living with metastatic breast cancer says it's way past time for a change.

Santa and Rudolph are likely to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction.

In the play, actual board members of The Actors' Group recall the dilemma of moving from their Chinatown location to a new home at the Dole Cannery Shops in Iwilei. It plays out against a backdrop of bribery scandals at Honolulu Hale.