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Climate change prompted these scientists to reinvent chocolate

6:00am September 12, 2024

by Rob Schmitz

Climate change is driving more extreme weather events in the region where many cocoa beans are grown. A brother-sister team in Germany is working on a solution: making chocolate without cocoa beans.

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Francine weakens, but leaves 420,000 accounts without power and raises flood alarms

5:31am September 12, 2024

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as tropical storm Francine moved inland.

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She couldn't go to her daughter's graduation, so the hospital brought it to her

5:00am September 12, 2024

In 2014, Susan Kahn was in the hospital with terminal cancer, unable to attend her daughter's high school graduation. So the hospital staff brought the celebration to her.

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Protections for minority voters are at the center of a Florida redistricting case

5:00am September 12, 2024

Voting rights groups challenging the state congressional map want the Florida Supreme Court to reinstate a district that gave Black voters in one region the chance to elect their preferred candidate.

What does a busy president want to eat? This White House chef has the answer

5:00am September 12, 2024

You know that old line, "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are"? If that's true, then Cristeta Comerford knows the last five presidents of the United States better than almost anyone.

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Testimony begins in Tyre Nichols federal case involving 3 ex-Memphis officers

4:43am September 12, 2024

by Michel Martin

A Memphis jury heard opening statements in the federal trial of three former police officers -- charged with violating the civil rights of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, who died after a traffic stop.

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Cutting the ferry line in Washington state can lead to a fine and more

4:23am September 12, 2024

Line cutting can lead to a $145 fine. It's also a violation of ferry etiquette that can unleash road rage -- especially from locals toward visitors and transplants who aren't versed in ferry culture.

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Estonia joins 9 other nations in exposing Russia’s cyber tactics

4:15am September 12, 2024

by Jenna McLaughlin

Ten nations are exposing Russian hacking tactics against Ukraine and its allies. For Estonia, one of those nations, it's a major milestone.

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Hanif Abdurraqib wishes he could bottle the feeling he got while making a mix tape as a kid.

Hanif Abdurraqib is a 'genius.' His friends aren't impressed

3:00am September 12, 2024

Hanif Abdurraqib's writing has earned him a MacArthur "genius" grant. His most recent book, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, landed a spot on Barack Obama's summer reading list. But those accolades don't matter to him as much as being a good friend and neighbor. Abdurraqib talks to Rachel about a youth spent unhoused and incarcerated, and the zen of making mixtapes.

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He's in a New York prison. Yet courts let him stay on a U.S. House ballot — in Alaska

11:15pm September 11, 2024

A fringe candidate who's never been to Alaska and is currently in federal prison in New York is set to appear on the general election ballot for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, after a judge’s ruling.