内容摘要：Yousef Odeh, 27, connects a wire to a battery to light up his house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Yousef Odeh, 27, connects a wire to a battery to light up his house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas atBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Deep inside the dumpsters of

, Elías Fernández, 27, sifts through for a living. A construction worker who lost his job in November and now sleeps with his children on the floor of a friend’s apartment, Fernández – often accompanied by his teenage daughters, Morena and Valentina, and his wide-eyed toddler son Juan — is a full-time scavenger.The Fernández family is part of a vast underground economy that has swelled asplows ahead with Argentina’s most intense austerity scheme in recent history.

Although the nation’s official statistics agency reported Monday, many Argentines have yet to feel the promised benefits of the economic reforms.

Like legions of other families, Fernández and his children beg for food and spend their days collecting scraps of cardboard, pieces of metal or strands of wire — hauling them on a rented cart to sell to a local recycler.

Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on a pile of cardboard in their father’s cart that he rents for collecting recyclables to sell, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)BROWN: It was an opportunity to work with (“This Is Us” creator, showrunner) Dan (Fogelman) again. I read the pilot. I loved the pilot. I love that the character was very different than Randall or anything that I had done and that people had seen me do before. There was an invitation to be an executive producer on the show as well. It’s also my first time being No. 1 on the call sheet, and I’m 48 years old. People wanted to put me No. 1 on the call sheet, and I was superstitious about it, and I was like, ″You know what? Just make me No. 2,” and they’re like, “Are you serious?” I was like, “Yeah, totally cool. It’s fine.” I’d say “I think I’ve been successful at not being No. 1.” It felt like this was the right time and the right fit.

BROWN: A lot of folks have come up to Ryan, and I like, “You guys need a show.” Our dynamic is pretty special and fun and playful and crazy. It was like, “OK, if our friends are thoroughly entertained by us, then maybe a larger public will be entertained by us as well.” And it proved to be so. We got nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to do more. Then, Chris (Sullivan) and I were having brunch, and he brought up the idea of doing a rewatch podcast. I was like, “Bro, I would be down.” We asked Mandy to join us. For the three of us, it’s really an excuse to get together and enjoy each other’s company.I do. When you book a job through an audition, you’re like, “I know I deserve to be here.” A perfect example was “The People v. O.J. Simpson (:American Crime Story).” I was looking around (at John Travolta, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, David Schwimmer and Cuba Gooding Jr.) I was like, “One of these things is not like the other. Like, all you people are famous. I’m just me.” But I had auditioned for it and knew the role. Now, it’s like I have to make sure I prove to people that, I deserve the offer that I got.

NEW YORK (AP) — Many of Tina Knowles’ fondest childhood memories are of sitting under a pecan tree as her mother recited the history of their family, stretching back generations. Now, the mother of Beyoncé and Solangewith “Matriarch: A Memoir,” out this week.