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Also: FEMA starts giving financial aid to Hurricane Harvey victims; the U.S. urges Myanmar to protect fleeing Rohingya Muslims; and President Trump's commission on voting meets again today.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has postponed its latest public hearing because of Hurricane Ian. The session had been set for Wednesday afternoon.

Local organizations are behind food distributions in the East Side of Buffalo following the shooting at a Tops supermarket.

The pop artist's new album debuted on the Billboard charts about two months ago, but has returned due to an expanded "deluxe edition."

Motel 6 has settled a class-action lawsuit filed after it was found the hotel had given private guest information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The chain agreed to pay $7.6 million.

A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in the tiny rural community of Arkabutla, the local sheriff said.

Russian influence-mongers appear to have created a number of fake local news Twitter accounts — and spent years posting real headlines.

In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Holton explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers.Woody Holton joins Walter Edgar to talk about this “hidden history.”

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876–1958), a leader of the Charleston Renaissance, immortalized the beauty and history of the Carolina Lowcountry and helped propel the region into an important destination for cultural tourism.In the book Alice: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Charleston Renaissance Artist, Dwight McInvail and his co-authors draw on unpublished papers, letters, and interviews to create a personal account of the artist’s life and work. The book is enriched by over 200 illustrations of paintings, prints, sketches, and photographs, many shared for the first time.McInvaill and internationally renowned South Carolina Artist Jonathan Green join Walter Edgar in conversation about Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and her work.

Roth IRAs and Roth 401ks are retirement accounts that not only grow tax free but when it comes time for retirement, the withdrawals are also tax free. So having Roth assets gives you access to retirement money without capital gains or income tax and remember, too much taxable income in retirement can also impact your medicare premiums.All of this is why our next guest says that if you haven’t converted a traditional IRA to a Roth yet, the current bear market in stocks may be providing an opportunity to do so. Mike Switzer interviews Thomas Manly, a certified financial planner with Hobbs Group Advisors in Columbia, SC.