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Both Democrats and Republicans have introduced proposals that would impose a cap on out-of-pocket costs of prescription drugs for Medicare patients. But it's still unclear whether those moves will gain a foothold.

Medicare's Uncapped Drug Costs Take A Big Bite From Already Tight Budgets

Unlike many private health plans, Medicare has no cap on out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs in Part D. As the cost of specialty drugs rises, some Medicare patients owe thousands of dollars.

Farmhouse Tavern in Toronto has found a way to turn quiet Sundays, which often lead to either throwing away food or freezing it, into a way to sell out menu items.

Toronto Restaurant Fights Waste By Chopping Menu Prices Till Food Is Gone

Every Sunday, Farmhouse Tavern plans how to sell out of perishable food and open bottles of wine so it can shut up shop with an empty refrigerator for the next three days, when it is closed.

Chef Kathy Gunst’s chicken and couscous bowl with green cilantro-scallion sauce. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

3 Bowl Recipes That Celebrate Spring Ingredients

From a broiled miso-ginger salmon bowl to a chicken and couscous bowl with cilantro-scallion sauce, chef Kathy Gunst serves up recipes perfect for spring.

In <em>Purl</em>, a sentient ball of yarn finds itself out of place at the office. The short film is one of several created through a new Pixar program called SparkShorts.

Pixar's SparkShorts Set Out To Ignite More Diversity in Animation

The animation studio has launched a series of short films intended to increase leadership opportunities for women and people of color — populations historically underrepresented in the field.

Some of the "milks" on offer by Elmhurst Milked, which operated as a traditional dairy in New York for nearly 100 years. These days, Elmhurst has replaced cows with nuts, oats and rice.

A Century-Old Dairy Ditches Cows For High-Tech Plant Milk

American aren't drinking as much milk. One long-established dairy is spurring business by replacing cows with nuts and grains, and using new technology to make alternative "milk" sources.

This Thanksgiving season, thousands of cooks across the country will reach out to food help lines. One such service, the Butterball Turkey Talk Line, has 50 experts on call from early November through Christmas.

Confusion In The Kitchen? Thanksgiving Help Lines Are Just A Call Away

Expert-staffed hotlines by companies including Butterball, Ocean Spray and Betty Crocker help thousands of home cooks each holiday season.

Jun Bolisay, 62, a Miami resident for 27 years, begins to clean up his yard on Monday morning after Hurricane Irma passed through the area. The hurricane made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, lashing the state with 130 mph winds as it moved up Florida's west coast.

Irma Weakens To Tropical Depression As Storm Buffets Georgia

Irma leaves behind large swaths of damage in Florida and continues to dump heavy rain, but surge warnings have been discontinued.

Harvey Recovery Will Take Time, HUD Secretary Ben Carson Says

Rachel Martin talks to Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, about recovery efforts and his department's role in assisting Texas and Louisiana property owners affected by flooding.

Georgia Democratic nominee for governor Stacey Abrams takes the stage to declare victory Tuesday night. Abrams is the first black woman to win a major-party nomination for governor in U.S. history.

Primary Takeaways: Voters Send Parties Further Apart

Republicans and Democrats are heading in totally different directions, highlighted by Georgia's primaries for governor. And the progressive vs. establishment fight fizzled on the Democratic side.

In November 2019, PJ Hahn, former director of Coastal Zone Management for Plaquemines Parish, stood in the spot where Cat Island once was. "To be standing there in three, four feet of water where the land used to be so beautiful. I remember pulling up to this island, the minute we got close the birds would fly off the island."

'Where The Land Used To Be,' Photos Show Louisiana Coast 10 Years After BP Oil Spill

Photographer Tyrone Turner documented the life and changes on Cat Island in the southeastern coastal area of the state before it disappeared.

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