Giving voice to all communities
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It has been 10 years since a bomb exploded just feet from Rebekah Gregory and her son Noah as they attended the Boston Marathon as spectators. Gregory's body shielded the 5-year-old, but she was seriously injured, eventually losing her left leg. For our series Note to Self, Gregory shares a letter with her younger self about what happened that day, her determination and mission to help others.
A few days after a federal judge in Texas moved to suspend the abortion drug mifepristone, the Supreme Court intervened to temporarily preserve FDA approval and consumer access to it. Nancy Cordes reports.
Beginning her new job as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, she talks about the increased political and logistical challenges of feeding the world's neediest, and the most important advice her late husband gave her.
In Rome this month, Cindy McCain started her new job as executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, an organization working in 123 countries with the ambitious goal of ending world hunger. She talks with correspondent Seth Doane about the increased political and logistical challenges of feeding the world's neediest, a task made more critical by the pandemic and war in Ukraine; and about the advice she continues to carry with her from her husband, the late Sen. John McCain.
Her bestselling novel, about a woman whose husband vanishes, is now a TV series starring Jennifer Garner that explores how little we may know about the people we love.
Laura Dave's bestselling novel, "The Last Thing He Told Me," about a woman whose husband vanishes, explores how little we may know about the people we love. It has now become a TV series starring four-time Emmy nominee Jennifer Garner. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti talks with Garner about her special attraction to the role; and with Dave about how Bruce Springsteen's music was an inspiration to her writing.
British fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, who popularized the miniskirt, died Thursday, April 13 at age 93. Jane Pauley reports on how Quant's skirts moved fashion forward during the "Swinging '60s" - a small idea that had a deep impact on popular culture.
"Love Again" was made for the upcoming movie of the same name starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heughan, and is just one of five Dion tracks that will be featured in the film.
In almost half of all opposite-sex marriages, women now earn as much or more than their husbands, a threefold rise since the 1970s.
When Kris Tompkins gave up her job as CEO of the Patagonia clothing company 30 years ago, she never imagined her life would become the subject of a film by Oscar-winning documentarians. But thanks to historic land donations by her and her husband, North Face founder Doug Tompkins, now she is. Ben Tracy reports.
