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Mike White is the Hollywood screenwriter behind hit films including The School of Rock, The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck. Now he has directed Year of the Dog, a "not very funny" comedy about a woman grieving for her lost pet; it stars Peter Sarsgaard and Saturday Night Live veteran Molly Shannon.

The Canadian and United States hockey teams are heading home from the Turin Olympics after tough matches against rivals in Europe. Canada was beaten 2-0 by Russia in the quarterfinals and the Americans lost 4-3 to Finland.

In the second of a two-part story, NPR's John Ydstie continues his report on U.S. soldiers wounded in the war in Iraq. Ydstie focuses on how soldiers who have lost limbs are being fitted with high-tech artificial limbs and learning how to use them.

The focus of environmentalists now turns to getting a single-use plastic ban on the 2022 ballot.

As states begin to require people to requalify for the free health insurance, many who are eligible are losing coverage because of administrative snafus.

All 90 million Medicaid beneficiaries will have their eligibility checked, and many will no longer have health insurance — as pandemic-era rules that automatically renewed their coverage expire.

The Labor Department is expected to report the U.S. lost millions of jobs last month due to the coronavirus. Unemployment likely jumped to its highest level since the Great Depression.

The filmmaker was known for his hit '80s movies The Lost Boys and St. Elmo's Fire as well as his work on the Batman movie franchise.

"We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life," the pope said.

Linda Belcher reclaimed the seat she lost to Dan Johnson in 2016 amid a wave of pro-Trump voter sentiment in Kentucky. Johnson killed himself in December amid allegations of sexual assault.