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A trip to Iceland wouldn't be complete without a dip in the Blue Lagoon, a man-made geothermal pool on Reykjanes peninsula.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Soak Up This Weekend

1:36pm April 23, 2016

The premise of #NPRreads is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading and each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

Beets for sale at a Farmer's Market in Washington, D.C. A new investigation found that many Tampa Bay restaurants claiming to serve locally-sourced food are not truthful about where their ingredients come from.

#NPRreads: 3 Great Reads To Contemplate This Weekend

8:47am April 16, 2016

Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

Merle Haggard performs during Stagecoach, California's Country Music Festival, April 24, 2015, in Indio, Calif.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Go Beyond Headlines This Weekend

6:57pm April 09, 2016

Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Spring Into This Weekend

8:27am April 02, 2016

#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and The Two-Way. Correspondents, editors and producers share the pieces that have kept them reading. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, speaks during an interview at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., in January.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Crack Open This Weekend

2:13pm March 26, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Read about the gender biases of your cell phone assistant, the ways politicians supported the Malheur militants, and how Europe's jihadists are different from their predecessors.

A statue of Juan Ponce de León in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Arts

#NPRreads: 3 Stories That Will Pass Into Legend

9:20am March 19, 2016

The deep history and literary roots of cowboy poetry. The messiness of family mythologies. And the visions — or delusions — for sale when athletes join forces with multi-level marketers.

#NPRreads: Three Stories To Bounce Around This Weekend

7:00am March 12, 2016

What do Allen Iverson, Tuscan wine and income inequality in Boston have in common? They're all on the #NPRreads list this weekend!

View of the Dead Sea from the fortress of Masada, Israel.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To March Right On Into This Weekend

10:27am March 05, 2016

A history of transphobia in Hollywood, an eye-opening look at the way the Dead Sea is dying, and an examination of evictions in America's poor communities.

Dale Earnhardt Sr., shown celebrating in the victory lane after winning the International Race of Champions in 1995 in Daytona Beach, Fla., died on Feb. 18, 2001 from injuries in a last-lap crash at the Daytona 500. In one of this week's #NPRreads, a spor

#NPRreads: 3 Stories Worth Leaping Into

2:46pm February 27, 2016

Watching, weeping and writing as Dale Earnhardt Sr. died. Thinking about why we teach our girls to be scared. And spending some time with a prophet of extreme frugality.

Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXV — the New York Giants against the Buffalo Bills — at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991. The Giants won 20-19.

#NPRreads: 4 Winning Stories To Tackle This Weekend

7:18am February 06, 2016

Whitney Houston's Super Bowl masterpiece, a man of many identities, the future of military food — and from The Guardian's archives, an extraordinary, gut-wrenching chronicle of the Delhi gang rape.