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Our love of fashion is weighing heavily on the planet. Americans each throw away an average of 70 pounds of clothing a year. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There’s a global movement to change this. To embrace reuse and repair our clothes. Can a person, store, or event make a dent in this global issue? Sofia Fernandez spoke with practitioners of the movement to find out.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival celebrated in China and many Asian countries.

When a movement is really important it gets its own hashtag...and here's Jack Reid on #FreeBritneySpears!

Tomorrow is International Coffee Day! Drink up! Hao Xu spoke with coffee shop owners in South LA. 

A group of dedicated musicians based at USC donate their time to try to bring some joy to cancer patients at Keck hospital. They call themselves the Medicinal Music makers. Their goal is to use music as a tool for healing and bring some happiness to the patients and caregivers in the cancer ward. Gabriella Castania produced this report.

USC requires most students, faculty, and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but an email sent earlier this week adds a new requirement. Students, faculty and staff will also need to get the flu vaccine before November 1st. Wilko Martínez-Cachero asks students how they feel about this.

As California lifts its rental moratorium, many households are at risk of facing eviction. With hundreds of thousands of families applying for rental assistance, California is spending nearly $1.2 billion dollars in efforts to prevent evictions. Jose Romo has more. 

For decades Los Angeles hasn’t built enough homes to meet its growing housing demands. This has created fast-rising rents and home prices and put homeownership out of reach for thousands of Angelenos. Some families have responded by leaving Southern California altogether. Earlier this month Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two reforms targeting California housing, senate bills nine and 10, into law — reporter Perry Budd delves more into this issue.

What team bounced back from 2 losses to start the season, and is currently on an undefeated streak? USC women's soccer! Taylor Mills has more.

On Thursday night, the School of Dramatic Arts, or SDA, will hold its first-ever in-person performance since the COVID-19 outbreak. Sarah DeLappe’s (de-lap) The Wolves, a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist, follows a competitive women’s high school soccer team, navigating the transition from adolescence to womanhood. Madeline Horowitz spoke with the director, Sabra (sah-bra) Williams and actors Tali Green and Daisy Tichenor (tich-ner).