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'Much more than a job': Food bank workers reflect on the joy they find in their work

By Jo Corona

Published November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM CST

Cyndi Kirkhart and Scott Thompson of the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia, talk about how they met and the rewards of feeding the hungry.

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Jo Corona

BBC apologizes for edit of Trump speech but says it won't provide legal compensation

Willem Marx

The BBC has apologized to President Trump for the way it edited his Jan. 6, 2021 speech but says it won't pay compensation. Trump has threatened a $1 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Morning news brief

Leila Fadel

White House dismisses release of new Epstein documents as a distraction, Border Patrol agents will be deployed to Charlotte, North Carolina, economists begin to calculate the cost of the shutdown.
Filmmaker Ken Burns examines the 'American Revolution' in new documentary series

Michel Martin

After chronicling the Civil War, jazz and baseball, filmmaker Ken Burns turns his attention to "The American Revolution." His new documentary series begins airing on PBS stations on Nov. 16.
Tallying up the cost of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

Scott Horsley

Economists are starting to put a price tag on the six-week government shutdown. But some of their calculations will be difficult to make because the shutdown temporarily limited government data.
Ecuador to vote on whether to allow foreign military bases back in the country

Carrie Kahn

Ecuadorians will vote Sunday on whether to reverse a constitutional ban and allow foreign military bases back in the country, as part of the fight against drug trafficking.