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A dog statue in downtown Columubs has been equipped with a face mask.

WOSU is providing updates about the coronavirus and COVID-19 in Ohio. Find the most recent news and information below.Gov. Mike DeWine's daily cororavirus…

Karen Williams (left) holds hands with her daughter, Lena Powell, while walking through St. Michael's Lutheran Churchyard in Philadelphia. Williams, who is disabled, bought a life insurance policy to pay for her funeral, but it caused her to lose access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit checks that she relies on to pay bills.

These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

Radio Special | Unsettled: Immigration In Ohio

Immigrants in search of the American dream come in many forms, but the goal is often the same: more opportunity, more security, more stability. Here’s how one man in the U.S. on a work permit from Mexico puts it:

Robert Lee Johnson in his old neighborhood in Compton. Johnson remembers moving in one day in 1961. "I see moving vans, trucks and everything all down the street," he says. Johnson was 5 years old at the time, so he says he thought "it was moving day for everybody." And he noticed that all the other families moving in were were Black, too.

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Owning a home is a part of the American dream. It's also the key to building intergenerational wealth. But Black Americans continue to face discrimination in housing, including through higher costs.

'Fresh Air' Commemorates The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11's Moon Landing

We listen to archival interviews with Michael Collins, of Apollo 11; Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield; and Chuck Yeager, who first broke the sound barrier.

Exclusive First Read: 'Gone Girl' By Gillian Flynn

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.

Ohio State student Connor Brown, right, and family move into the campus dorms in August.

Coronavirus In Ohio: July 5-August 23

WOSU is providing updates about the coronavirus and COVID-19 in Ohio. Find the most recent news and information below.Ohio by the numbers, according to…

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