Today on the show, we'll start with a look at President Obama's review of U.S. deportation practices. Then, Hollywood Reporter music editor Shirley Halperin wraps up the SXSW festival for us. Plus, filmmakers of 'Better Living Through Chemistry' talk about the film, CVS us under fire for missing painkiller prescriptions, Sierra Madre's giant wisteria trees and much more.
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• 10:56
President Obama says he is ordering a review of deportations. The move was announced in a meeting at the White House Thursday with leaders of the Hispanic Caucus.
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• 4:16
To reflect on that all has happened this week in Austin, we turn to one of our favorite music critics Shirley Halperin from the Hollywood reporter.
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• 14:56
It's the end of another week and time for the Friday Flashback, Take Two's look at the week in news. This morning we're joined in-studio by Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey, and we welcome back Jamelle Bouie of The Daily Beast.
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• 6:13
Earlier this week came the news that CVS could face as much as $29 million dollars in fines for allegedly losing track of prescription painkillers at four California stores.
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• 9:01
The new film "Better Living Through Chemistry" shows just how easy and dangerous it can be for a pharmacist to slip into his own supply.
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• 3:14
A new study commissioned by the Justice Department looks at the operations and economics of commercial sex in eight different cities, including San Diego.
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• 5:25
Rape is one of the most widely known risks for women migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. and yet justice for those crimes is almost always elusive.
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• 4:15
Planted in 1894, the flowering vine has grown to the size of an acre and is considered by Guinness to be the world's largest blooming plant.
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• 4:32
A team of USC researchers seeks to make the college application process easier for teenagers to learn by making a game out of it.
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• 5:32
The annual Taco Madness tournament opened yesterday, and here to break it down for us is our own taco bracketologist, Meghan McCarty.
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• 7:36
In his latest film, Elijah Wood plays a famous concert pianist named Tom Selznick who retires after botching a notoriously difficult piece of music known as La Cinquette, written by his mentor a piano legend named Patrick Godureaux.
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• 15:18
Researchers in London and Switzerland have been examining what makes a song an earworm and what types of situations trigger them. They came up with some strategies for getting rid of earworms based on thousands of survey responses.