The team at the company Masienda earned a 2023 James Beard award for their documentary series Masienda Presents. The series features home cooks, chefs and farmers.
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Apple says the autocorrect feature on the iPhone will soon be able to use AI to know when you don't mean to say "duck." General release for the autocorrect is set for September.
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The elephants take daily yoga classes. The older ones do yoga twice a day — just to stay limber. One elephant, Tess, is almost 40 and can do handstands.
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At the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York City, an exhibition titled "No Justice Without Love" features works by formerly incarcerated artists.
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An Oklahoma school board has approved what would be the first taxpayer-funded religious school. It's a virtual school and opponents say they'll take legal action against it.
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A new study about a medieval tome includes the comedy script of an unnamed traveling entertainer, known as a minstrel, and provides a direct glimpse into the oral tradition of English minstrel acts.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams about what's included in the law which gives people the right to sleep outdoors in public places, but not anyplace they like.
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Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, whose beguiling rendition of "The Girl From Ipanema" made her world famous, has died at 83. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 6, 2023.)
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Viviana López Green, senior director of the racial equity initiative at Unidos U.S., about the lack of Latino history in high school textbooks.
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A deep and persistent drought has parched much of Kansas, and wheat farmers there now expect the smallest harvest in at least 60 years.
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NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports the latest updates on Hollywood's labor negotiations led by writers and the strike authorization vote by SAG-AFTRA, the union representing screen actors.
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A high school graduation in Richmond abruptly turned to terror Tuesday following a shooting after the commencement ceremony.
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A Colombian town at the start of the Darien Gap, one of the most treacherous migrant routes in the world, has seen a drop in migrants after the U.S. recently implemented the new immigration rules.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Zach Helfand of The New Yorker about the planned merger of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf — after two years of animosity.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence in Iowa Wednesday will make his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination official. There are questions about how he'll go up against former President Donald Trump.
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