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15 hours ago | hppr.org | Manoush Zomorodi |Rachel White |Sanaz Meshkinpour

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode "How taking a second look can change your everything"At an early age, Tavares Strachan noticed there was a lot missing from his family's encyclopedia. Today, the artist searches for lost stories to include in his own Encyclopedia of Invisibility. About Tavares Strachan Tavares Strachan is a conceptual artist from the Bahamas.

2 days ago | hppr.org | Bonnie Petrie

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has reported no new confirmed measles cases in the last week and has reduced the number of counties still in an active measles outbreak to two. A county is no longer considered to be in an active outbreak when it has gone 42 days without a new measles case. That's two full incubation periods. DSHS started reporting outbreak counties in its update on April 11, when there were 10 Texas counties with active outbreaks.

2 days ago | hppr.org | AJ Dome

She's not a circus performer, but Tessa Ward says she's constantly walking a tightrope. It's a metaphor for her financial situation, which requires tough decisions daily. "I've had to decide which bills get paid and which don't," she says. "I know exactly which ones have the lowest late fees. I've had to skip meals so that my children could eat."Ward and her family are just one example of thousands of households across the state living paycheck to paycheck in what's referred to as an ALICE home.

4 days ago | hppr.org | Katy McAfee |Stephanie Federico

Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale in Texas of most products containing THC, the compound in cannabis that gets people high. In announcing the veto just before a midnight deadline, the governor said he would call a special session July 21 to debate the legislation further. Senate Bill 3 would have unraveled Texas' $8 billion hemp industry and cost an estimated 50,000 people their jobs.

1 week ago | hppr.org | Lionel Ramos

Lawmakers filed 3,273 bills this session, 499 of which would eventually become law for a 15 percent success rate. Big picture, it's a relatively normal outcome in terms of the ratio of measures filed to those passed. However, the details of the bills that Gov. Kevin Stitt ensured were signed into law, the ones he vetoed, and the ones the legislature overrode his authority on help paint a picture of what Oklahomans can expect in updates to state law.