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National

R&B singer Sam Moore dies at age 89

6:31pm January 11, 2025

by Scott Detrow

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For NPR producer Melissa Gray, nothing says summer more than a cold glass of limeade.

What's Your Favorite Taste Of Summer?

by NPR Staff

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Bon Appetit editor Adam Rapoport compiled recipes from all over the world for The Grilling Book. Pictured here are Chicken Yakitori.

Gathering Around The 'Global Grill'

by NPR Staff

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Cassia Mendes, who has worked as a housekeeper for more than 20 years, cleans a house in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 19, 2012. Brazil enacted on April 2 a constitutional amendment to grant domestic workers health insurance and other benefits.

World News

'We Are Not Valued': Brazil's Domestic Workers Seek Rights

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

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Mynor Sanchez, a resident of Moore, Okla., lives a few blocks away and three houses down from major destruction. He is volunteering Friday in the neighborhood with his church, Templo El Alabanza, trying to do any tasks with which residents need help.

National

'Part Of The Community': Latinos Rebuild After Okla. Tornado

by Hansi Lo Wang

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Actress Marla Gibbs (as maid Florence Johnston) and actor Sherman Hemsley (as her boss, George Jefferson), appear in an episode of The Jeffersons.

National

History Makes Hiring Household Help A Complex Choice

by Karen Grigsby Bates

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Arts

The Movie Gillian Anderson Has 'Seen A Million Times'

by Lily Percy

Actor Gillian Anderson could watch the animated movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa a million times. "I cannot stop laughing when I see this film," she says.

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Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai attends the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People on March 3, 2012, in Beijing, China.

Books

From A 'Death' To A Crisis, Tracing China's Bo Xilai Scandal

by NPR Staff

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Books
Arts

Three-Minute Fiction Readings: 'Compromise' And 'The F'

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National

America's Vets: Returning Home To A Broken System

by NPR Staff

The Department of Veterans Affairs is being criticized for the shortfall in care for almost a million veterans who can't get timely compensation and have been waiting hundreds of days for help, often to no avail. But the agency says it's making progress.

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