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One of the worst fears of solo radio reporters in the field is recording interviews and sounds for a story only to come back to the studio to discover that sound was not recorded. I'll spare you details about why and how this can happen (operator error to equipment failure). But this past week as some people lost their homes and lives to the wildfires, I lost the ability to let them tell their stories.

Lost Audio, Lost Homes, Lost Lives

Economic sanctions are an important—and controversial--foreign-policy tool for any U.S. administration. Currently, the U.S. has sanctions in place against a dozen nations. They range from "targeted sanctions" — aimed at the leaders of a regime — to blanket trade embargos against entire nations.

Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous ora

moves back and forth in time as it weaves the story of grief, loss and recovery. At the core of the film are three people: Steven (David Duchocney), his wife Audrey (Halle Berry) and his friend since childhood Jerry (Benicio Del Toro). Audrey has always resented her husband's friendship with Jerry, and she's never been able to understand it. Steven is a successful designer/architect and Jerry's a longtime addict. The distance, in terms of lifestyles, between the two men keeps growing, but Steven maintains the friendship, offering support and occasional food and money. Audrey considers Steven's time with Jerry as time he could better spend with her or their two kids.

The Southeastern part of the United States may look green, but it's dry — bone dry. The National Weather Service is calling the dry spell an "exceptional" drought. Cities are towns in the region are taking steps to deal with the conditions.

Writer-director Andrew Dominik begins his meditation on the outlaw on an interesting note. There's an initial sense of poetry as a narrator paints a portrait of James (played by an initially golden Brad Pitt) against a backdrop of beautiful shots of the old west. The images are soft and out of focus on the periphery of the frame as if to warn us that what we are about to see is not a clear-sighted recounting of the facts but rather something filtered through memory or time. In these initial moments, there's even a hint of the kind of poetry that graced Terence Malick's

In Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, a number of the most ardent anti-government news media have been silenced. A new television station promising fair and balanced news has been launched, but some are concerned that media freedom is at risk.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a securities fraud case. The justices are being asked whether firms that help a publicly traded company look falsely attractive to investors can be held liable for damages.

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