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The first Israeli TV show to prominently feature Arabs, Arab Work is drawing extremely high ratings. Frequently likened to The Cosby Show, the sitcom addresses contentious issues in a comic way, drawing thousands of fans, as well as critics.

Paris Fashion week is under way — but does it matter to people's everyday lives? Aaron Wong says yes. He is a Yale doctoral candidate and taught a seminar in fashion critical theory.

The Cannes Film Festival is known for its highbrow fare, but every once in a while a crowd-pleaser sneaks into the mix. Caramel, a new film from Lebanon, was one such delight at the last festival.

During the first week of the Sundance Film Festival, buyers compete for films in earnest. Competition for films is expected to be tougher this year because the screenwriters' strike means supply is limited. But the highest bidder might not be the best distributor for an independent film.

Federal agents raided several Southern California museums and art galleries, looking for smuggled and looted antiquities. We look at what spurred the investigation.

Hamburg-born Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous. She took some of the earliest photographs of the group and was engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bassist, before he died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.

As the presidential campaigns shift their focus to South Carolina primary, the Palmetto State will be the focus of nationwide attention. Chad Prosser, director of the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, explains some his state's lesser-known treasures.

Writer Kate Spicer talks about her "descent into starvation" while filming Super Skinny Me, a documentary in which two journalists attempt to drop from a size eight to a size zero in just six weeks.

Malan Breton lasted two episodes in the third season of the hit reality series Project Runway. This week, Breton showed his stuff at Fashion Week in New York City's Bryant Park.

A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., features photos and portraits of hip hop performers and a wall of graffiti. The show likens rap and hip hop to self portraiture. Most of the lyrics, after all, are boasts about the emcee's prowess and badness.

New Jersey's governor is calling for a return to "normal" as the state's COVID cases start to fall. As of the second week of March, students and school staff will no longer be required to wear masks.

In Ottawa, hundreds of large trucks and other vehicles have blocked streets in central districts of the Canadian city. The protest of vaccine rules is in its second week with no sign of a resolution.

Spotify has doubled down on their stance to keep Joe Rogan's podcast on their platform, even after video evidence emerged of Rogan using racist language on his show over the years.

Whether NATO should expand to include countries once under Soviet influence — including Ukraine — is a question that has dogged U.S. and Russian officials for 30 years.

Frontier Airlines and Spirit — the nation's two largest low-cost carriers — are set to merge to create the fifth-largest airline in the country, in a deal valued at more then $6.5 billion.

"If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2," Biden said, without offering specifics.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Writers Guild of America are back at the bargaining table. Producer Jim Kennedy offers his take on the figures.

If a political candidate makes a gaffe and comedy writers aren't around to make fun of it, does it make a sound? Bill Sheft, a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman, talks about the impact of the lack of late-night laughs, and how we are affected by the absence of political humor.

The Zagat duo, Tim and Nina, put out the latest version of their Zagat Airline Survey today. Small airports and young airlines came out on top. This doesn't provide much hope for those flying out of New York, Los Angeles, Miami or Philadelphia. We'll talk with Nina Zagat about the survey results and which airlines are likely to make your travel experience this holiday a painful one.

There Will Be Blood, a new film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, is a morality play set in the early days of California's oil boom. It involves the unholy trinity of oil, money and religion.

In 1960, Bob Newhart stood before one of the first live nightclub audiences he'd ever faced. That performance resulted in the beloved comedy album, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," which the Library of Congress selected for its National Recording Registry.

The program's Magazine Mavens — Angela Burt-Murray of Essence, Anita Malik of EastWest and Cynthia Good of Pink — take listeners inside their magazine stories. They discuss healthcare, an interview with televangelist Juanita Bynum and a chat with Tyra Banks.

U.S. snowboarder Stacy Gaskill is racing in her first Olympics, but this isn't her family's first time at the Games. Her mom, Martha Gaskill, won a bronze medal as a Paralympian at the Calgary Games.

The Biden administration recently canceled a proposed mine. While environmentalists celebrated, it shows how hard it is to build a domestic supply of the minerals needed to switch to a green economy.

"We have to show that we are not afraid," Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough says. The FBI is probing the threats as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes.