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"We're going to have people with property out of their house and with nowhere to go," says Kimberly Dike, a Texas attorney who represents tenants. "It's horrible to think of, but that's going to happen when the moratorium ends and no other protections are put in place."

An eviction hold by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expires on Dec. 31. Will it get extended? And what help can Congress offer?

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Before President Donald Trump took office, there hadn't been a federal execution in 17 years. Now, the Trump administration is on track to complete the most federal executions in modern history.

We talked about it and answered your questions.

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"It felt to me like we had run out of symbolic ways to protest," says former ACT-UP activist David Robinson. "Doing die-ins, chalking outlines of bodies. But this felt like...the reality of our grief."

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Alaska's Arctic Refuge is one of the last great expanses of untouched land in the United States. Proponents of drilling for oil and gas say it would bring economic development to the region. But opponents say it could be devastating to an already-vulnerable region.

We head to Alaska to talk about it.

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Americans still traveled for Thanksgiving, despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warnings to stay home. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin puts forward a stimulus plan. The U.K. administers the first clinically-approved vaccine. Tens of thousands of farmers strike in India.

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Genealogy is reportedly one of our most popular hobbies, and at-home DNA tests are a trendy holiday gift. But what, exactly, is in the box?

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"When Selena [came] along, she represented this kind of transcendence without compromise," Maria Elena Garcia, creator and host of the "Anything for Selena" podcast says. "She celebrated an identity that at that time was very much derided, and so that was incredibly profound for a lot of people to experience...me included."

We talked about the Tejano music legend and the new Netflix series that tries to capture her life.

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"We just try and move with as much honesty as we know how, because being as human as we are, we don't always know the right moves," says Black Pumas' Eric Burton. "It seems that there's a little bit of grace for us in our honesty."

Black Pumas, Burton's band with guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada, is nominated for three Grammys in 2021.

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MTA Chairman and CEO Pat Foye describes the MTA's financial crisis as a "tsunami."

"The deficit we face over a period of years without federal aid is nearly 16 billion dollars."

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Congress finds a starting point on a COVID-19 relief plan. President Trump mulls another campaign in 2024. The U.K. approves a COVID-19 vaccine. And deforestation in the Amazon is at a 12-year high.

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