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With Tea Party activists determined to defund Obamacare and halt the immigration bill, lawmakers’ August recess is anything but sleepy. Congressman Robert Pittenger found that out firsthand.

Critics are starting to ask what’s happening with the once highly respected actor. “The Lone Ranger” is one of the biggest box office bombs of the summer, and it’s earned Depp even more negative reviews.

Staff Sgt. Ed Drew brought his photography equipment from art school to Afghanistan, including equipment to make tintypes — a photographic technique from the Civil War.

Watsi — one of the fastest growing non-profits in web history — puts up pictures and profiles of people around the world who need money for medical care. It’s like Kickstarter for medical care.

It’s been a great summer for actor Ethan Hawke, with films including “Before Midnight” and “The Purge.” In an interview with Here & Now, he talks about those films, his life and future plans.

“Kids Jeopardy” contestant Thomas Hurley made it all the way to Final Jeopardy and even got the right answer. The only problem? He spelled it wrong. He told his local newspaper he was “cheated.”

A new in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique has huge cost-saving implications, but it also raises ethical questions because the process can screen the entire human genome.

The newspaper’s executive editor, Marty Baron, tells Here & Now that employees are optimistic about what Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos can bring to the Post.

To mark the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the son of the president of the temple — who was killed in the shooting — invited a Newtown father to speak.

former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine says she’s concerned that the intercepted messages between members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula could be a diversionary tactic.