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A farmer picks coca leaves in a field in Colombia.

Colombia Tries To Get Farmers Out Of The Cocaine Biz. How's That Going?

If farmers uproot coca plants, whose leaves are used to make cocaine, the government has promised money, seeds and technology to help raise everything from peppercorns to pigs.

The house that played the home, at least from the outside, of the Brady family from the sitcom The Brady Bunch is currently for sale in the Los Angeles neighborhood Studio City.

'Brady Bunch' House Is Ready For A New Story

Does this house look familiar? It appeared during the beginning and ending credits of The Brady Bunch and is now for sale.

The Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss. is currently the state's only abortion clinic. The clinic has sued the state in response to a new law restricting abortion access.

Mississippi Governor Signs Nation's Toughest Abortion Ban Into Law

The state's only clinic that does abortions has filed a lawsuit in response to the new law, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies event in May. On Tuesday, the departments of Justice and Education announced that they have retracted documents that advised schools on how they could legally consider race in admissions and other decisions.

Trump Administration Rescinds Obama-Era Guidance Encouraging Affirmative Action

The departments of Justice and Education have retracted letters and memos suggesting ways schools and colleges can consider race to encourage diversity.

Farmer Terry Davidson walks through his soy fields in Harvard, Ill. Soybean prices have fallen this summer — a process that started even before the U.S. and China hit each other with tariffs in early July.

Agriculture Department Will Pay $4.7 Billion To Farmers Hit In Trade War

Most of the money — more than $3.6 billion — will go to soybean farmers. Last year, China bought nearly a third of all soybeans grown in the U.S.

Facebook's unmanned plane takes off in Arizona on June 28 for its first full-scale test flight. The solar-powered plane is designed to deliver wireless Internet to the ground as it flies over.

WATCH: Facebook Tests Internet-Beaming Plane

The social media company's high-altitude, unmanned, solar-powered drone is designed to provide wireless Internet coverage to the ground below.

A Village Voice newspaper stand lays on the ground next to garbage in New York City's East Village on Tuesday. The Village Voice, one of the oldest and best-known alternative weeklies in the U.S., announced that it will no longer publish a print edition.

New Yorkers Mourn End Of An Era As 'Village Voice' Ceases Print Edition

On Tuesday, the famed alt weekly announced it would be ending its free weekly print edition. The publication was purchased by Peter Barbey in 2015.

Demonstrators in favor of and against abortion rights made their beliefs known during a January 2018 protest in Washington, D.C.

Where U.S. Battles Over Abortion Will Play Out In 2019

Expect more aggressive regulatory action from the Trump administration while skirmishes continue in Congress and statehouses across the U.S. Many of these policies will ultimately land in court.

Where U.S. Battles Over Abortion Will Play Out In 2019

Expect more aggressive regulatory action from the Trump administration while skirmishes continue in Congress and statehouses across the U.S. Many of these policies will ultimately land in court.

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Airs Tuesdays, April 24-May 15, 2018 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

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