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The last Nobel Prize in Literature winner was Kazuo Ishiguro, who took the honor in 2017. The Swedish Academy will award two literary prizes in 2019, the Nobel Foundation says.

Nobel Foundation Confirms It Will Award 2 Literature Prizes In 2019, With Changes

A year after the Swedish Academy faced a crisis, the body "no longer includes any members who are subject to conflict of interest or criminal investigations," the Nobel Foundation says.

The Seattle Police Department will return to their East Precinct building "in the near future," Mayor Jenny Durkan says. Here, a sign on a street barricade lists protesters' demands in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, where two shootings took place over the weekend.

Seattle Police Will Return To Precinct In Protest Zone, Mayor Says

"It's time for people to go home," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says, after a weekend in which three people were shot in the zone known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Trump are currently set to debate three times.

Coronavirus Concerns Shift Presidential Debate From Michigan To Florida

The University of Michigan says coronavirus concerns make debate logistics too difficult for the school to pull off.

Workers with Davey Resource Group asess the damage to the trees in a neighborhood Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Boulder Creek, Calif.

Weather, Reinforcements Helping In California Wildfire Fight

Firefighters hard-pressed by some of the largest wildfires in California history scrambled Wednesday to take advantage of cooler weather and an influx of aid as they carved and burned containment lines around the flames to prevent more land from burning.

Processing Social Distancing With Haiku

Practicing social distancing to slow the spread of the coronavirus has quickly changed the way we live. As a way to process that change, Life Kit asked folks to write and share haikus.

Troops set up concertina wire as a Customs and Border Protection agent stands guard on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, on Thanksgiving Day.

Some National Guardsmen Don't Get Veterans' Benefits, Congress Is Trying To Change That

Not everyone in a military uniform will be considered a veteran when they leave the service, including some National Guard troops who have served along the border.

Brad Pitt talked about his plan to build homes in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, in 2007. Years after the Hurricane Katrina tore through the community, some residents said in a lawsuit that their homes are falling apart.

Brad Pitt's Foundation Sued For Crumbling Homes After Hurricane Katrina

Houses were made with inferior materials and poor construction, lawyers say. "I made a promise to the folks of the Lower Ninth to help them rebuild – it is a promise I intend to keep," the actor says.

My dream Zoom house in Truckee, California.

Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas

One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.

Niticia Mpanga, a registered respiratory therapist, checks on an ICU patient at Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas. The mortality rates from COVID-19 in ICUs have been decreasing worldwide, doctors say, at least partly because of recent advances in treatment.

Advances In ICU Care Are Saving More Patients Who Have COVID-19

One thing that has improved a lot over the course of the pandemic is treatment of seriously ill COVID-19 patients in intensive care units. Here's one man's success story.

'I Like To Watch' Is A Passionate, Brilliant Defense Of TV

The collection of 32 mostly previously published essays by New Yorker TV Critic Emily Nussbaum includes a new consideration of the question "What should we do with the art of terrible men?"

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