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After rising for weeks, the Mississippi River reached its peak over the weekend in parts of southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa. It crested at midday Monday in Davenport and Bettendorf and across the river in Illinois at Rock Island and Moline.

J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot) and Alex Newell (Shucked) are the first nonbinary actors to be nominated for Tonys, and today's announcement also highlighted three plays which have won Pulitzers.

The U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills by June 1. Hollywood writers are striking against the major studios. The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Supreme Court ethics.

Members of the Writers Guild of America are asking for a larger piece of the streaming platforms' pie. The WGA said picketing would begin Tuesday afternoon.

The annual Met Gala fundraiser pays tribute to designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has a controversial legacy in the fashion industry.

An 89-year-old first-time cookbook author, Emily Meggett, celebrates the cuisine of South Carolina's Gullah Geechee community and its African and Southern traditions.

Police say 38-year-old Francisco Oropesa shot five people to death in a home in Cleveland, Texas, early Saturday and then fled the area. Investigators are still searching for the suspect.

A growing number of hospitals are shifting care into patients' homes. That means moving medications, machines and staffing with it, but hospitals are finding patients heal better, and it's cheaper.

Study after study shows women seen as overweight or obese often earn less at the workplace, an unfair bias that's been hard to reverse. However, men don't seem to face that penalty.

On this episode of River to River we listen back to a couple of favorite book interviews from 2022.