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South Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk accepts the award for Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series for <em>Squid Game</em> onstage during the 74th Emmy Awards.

Primetime Emmys 2022: The full list of winners and nominees

Among the shows with the most nominations this year are Squid Game, Better Call Saul and Succession.

Jen Coghlan outside the home where she grew up in Perry, Iowa. Her father, Henry Ruhl, plans to leave the house to her, but Coghlan expects she'll have to sell it after he dies to settle a $226,611 from Medicaid for the care of her mother, who died in 2022. Coghlan says the family didn't realize that her mother was on Medicaid.

Depending on where they lived, demands for repayment can drain the assets that a patient on Medicaid leaves behind after they die. Iowa aggressively collects "clawback" funds.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., returns to his office following another disappointing day for the House majority leader. McCarthy has so far failed to become speaker after six rounds of votes.

These 21 House members didn't vote for Kevin McCarthy. Here's what they want

McCarthy is still short of the votes he needs to be speaker, and it's because of a staunch, anti-establishment, intransigent far-right group that wants government to do a lot less.

President Trump meets with congressional leaders in the Oval Office at the White House on Sept. 6. The deadline to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling is coming up on Dec. 8.

Week Ahead: The Stakes Are About To Get Really High For Republicans

Shutdown and debt ceiling deadlines are fast approaching four days before the Alabama Senate election, and Republicans are trying to pass a tax plan by Christmas.

President Biden speaks during a White House news conference Thursday.

A Biden-backed shakeup of Democrats' presidential calendar is OK'd by a party panel

South Carolina will be the first primary in the nation in 2024, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada, then Georgia and Michigan.

Authors Jason Reynolds, left, and Ibram X. Kendi spoke to students at a high school in Washington D.C. about their new book, <em>Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You.</em>

A History Book That Isn't: Finding A Way To Teach Racism To A New Generation

Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi team up to investigate the history of racist ideas through a narrative that's aimed at young adult readers. It's called: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, right, huddles with Preston Padden, president of network distribution for Fox, during a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in May 1995. A generation later, Padden says Murdoch is unfit to hold the licenses for local television stations due to Fox News.

A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations

Preston Padden helped Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox broadcast network in the 1990s. Now he argues Murdoch has proved unfit to hold the license for a Philadelphia station.

Kayce Atencio, who had a heart attack when he was 19, was unable to rent an apartment for years because of bad credit attributed in part to thousands of dollars of medical debt. "It always felt like I just couldn't get a leg up," says Atencio, one of millions of Americans whose access to housing is threatened by medical debt.

Medical debt nearly pushed this family into homelessness. Millions more are at risk

Saddled with debt from health care, many Americans are forced into painful tradeoffs. And some are losing their homes.

Kim Petras, the 30-year-old German-born pop singer, is currently in the process of figuring out where she wants to be in the pop music echelon.

The misplaced promise of Kim Petras

With her debut album, 'Feed the Beast,' the rising pop star is still in the process of figuring out where she wants to be in the pop music echelon.

Corporate Dirty Tricks And Romance In 'Duplicity'

Corporate dirty tricks aren't just for the news headlines anymore. Now, they provide the backdrop for a new film — part romance, part spy thriller. In the movie Duplicity, which opened Friday, former spies Julia Roberts and Clive Owen go undercover with a pair of conglomerates to steal the plans for a multimillion dollar product. Writer-director Tony Gilroy talks to Jacki Lyden about his densely plotted romantic thriller.

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