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Transportation consultant Bruce Schaller's latest study of the impact of ride-hailing services shows that they transported 2.61 billion passengers last year — a 37 percent jump in just one year.

The ongoing crisis is underscored by the enormous number of people who have been forced to flee their homes. While nearly 150,000 have sought refuge in other countries, far more have been uprooted but remain in Syria.

Some companies give away money as a reward for reading the fine print in online user agreements. Others impose biblical punishments for not reading it.

President Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

Illinois' pension gap is estimated at $83 billion — and it costs $12.6 million more every day the state does nothing to address the crisis. The state can't readily come up with the money, and while politicians say they want to help, they're unlikely to act during an election year.

Allen says he's not sure how he got into this or what he'll do. His half-hour series is set for Amazon's streaming video service.

The top stories this afternoon from KERA News: Thunderstorms blasted through North Texas today with high winds, hail and heavy rain. Four people were…

The top local stories this evening from KERA News:Dallas police gathered in front of their headquarters Friday morning to remember the officers who died…

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency votes to ask the U.N. Security Council to consider action against Iran for its efforts to pursue a nuclear program. But at the behest of China and Russia, action will be delayed at least a month.

Noah talks to architect Cesar Pelli about the world's tallest buildings. Pelli designed what is currently the world's tallest: the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Those will soon be dwarfed by a tower in Shanghai, China. And Donald Trump has plans for a still-taller skyscraper in lower Manhattan. Pelli's own design for a 2,000-foot tall building in Chicago has remained un-built since it was unveiled in 1989. Pelli says there are a lot of hurdles for skyscrapers to overcome before completion. He says with extremely tall buildings, the architect must view the process as adding a story at the BOTTOM, not the top -- to account for all the services, wires, elevators, and so forth that go into making a building work.