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Janelle Jones is the first Black woman to serve as chief economist at the Labor Department. She says helping marginalized groups boosts the entire economy.

Also: Smoke from western wildfires blows across the U.S.; Education Secretary DeVos will speak on enforcing Title IX sexual assault protections; and here's what happens to cars after a hurricane.

Also: An aid group says thousands of Myanmar Rohingya Muslims were murdered in a month; Roy Moore won't concede the Alabama senate election he lost; and awards for the funniest wildlife photos return.

Also: A U.S. Marine helicopter in Japan loses its windshield over a school, injuring a boy; the lead singer of the Smithereens dies; and odd headlines from 2017 include "covfefe".

Critic David Bianculli says that being a TV critic right now is kind of like being a sports writer — in a league where 10 new teams spring up every week.

Record prices are being paid for landscape paintings of the American West. Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center went to the Couer d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., and found serious buyers bidding into the hundreds of thousands or more, to own a Frederick Remington or a Charlie Russell or a Frank McCarthy.

Last May, Michael Brelo was found not guilty of two counts of voluntary manslaughter — in part, because it was too hard to determine which shots had killed the pair.

More than 130 million metric tons of single-use plastics were thrown out in 2019, according to a new report that puts Exxon Mobil atop a list of the companies that produce it.

Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site that pairs indie-minded entrepreneurs with online investors, funded more than 18,000 projects in 2012, according to its end-of-year analysis. The site says more than 2.2 million people pledged nearly $320 million, with 17 projects raising more than $1 million.

The Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its summer series of made-for-TV hearings Thursday night. Here's a look back at all the bombshell details and the major revelations it's shared so far.