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Phan Cong Quang makes fish sauce in his home in Nam O fishing village on March 4.

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Climate change and overfishing threaten Vietnam's tradition of making fish sauce

Climate change and overfishing are making it harder to catch the anchovies essential to the condiment that underlies so much of Vietnam and southeast Asia's food.

March 27, 2025
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Grace Wertanen, the "seedling intern" at Growing Hope Urban Farm in Ypsilanti, Mich. carries a tray of soil blocked plants

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  • Gardening

What's soil blocking? This seeding method helps gardeners use less plastic and peat

Soil blocking is an environmentally friendly method to prep seedlings. The technique has captured the attention of serious gardeners who'd like to make their growing more sustainable.

March 26, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. In 2015, Italy's highest court acquitted her of murder.

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  • Author Interviews

Why Amanda Knox returns to Italy — and how she talks with her daughter about injustice

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her exoneration, she reached out to the man who prosecuted her case. Knox's new memoir is Free.

March 26, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Daniel Craig at the world premiere of the <em>Casino Royale</em> in 2006 in London. Craig was the last actor to portray the famous spy.

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  • Arts & Life

Mission accepted: Amazon's 'James Bond' series has found its new producers

Producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman have accepted the call to lead the new Bond franchise.

March 26, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Katherine Maher of NPR, at left, and Paula Kerger of PBS are scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the federal funding their organizations receive.

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  • Media

Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat

A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters.

March 26, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Photograph of Joan Didion in the Vogue Art Department, c. 1958

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  • Arts & Life

A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne

The New York Public Library's Joan Didion archive opens March 26. Here's what you'll find inside.

March 26, 2025
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  • Adriana Gallardo and
  • Ana Perez
The Kennedy Center in Washington DC laid off its social impact team on Tuesday — the latest in a wave of dramatic changes at the national performing arts institution.

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  • Performing Arts

Kennedy Center lays off Social Impact employees

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has dissolved its Social Impact division, which partnered with local organizations to bring in diverse artists and audiences.

March 26, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Ike Barinholtz and Seth Rogen in<em> The Studio.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'The Studio' explains how good artists make bad movies

In The Studio, Seth Rogen plays an insecure studio executive who loves movies – but gets in the way of the people who make them. The new Apple TV+ series is about the systems that become far more destructive than any one well-meaning person can easily fix.

March 26, 2025
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  • Linda Holmes
The 118th body of Congress was elected in 2022 and served from 2023 until 2025.

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  • Politics

'Mad House' exposes Congressional dysfunction, from petty feuds to physical threats

The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the Great Depression. Journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater examine the chaos in a new book.

March 26, 2025
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  • Dave Davies
Eleanor Heginbotham (middle) with two of the people — Rachel Goslins (left) and Soumayah Zein (right) — who helped her on New Year's Eve 2022.

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  • Arts & Life

When Eleanor Heginbotham's car broke down on New Year's Eve, a group of strangers jumped in

Eleanor Heginbotham was at the post office on New Year's Eve 2022 when her car wouldn't start. For 40 minutes, a group of strangers came to her aid, including someone who would later become a friend.

March 25, 2025
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  • Laura Kwerel
Hamdan Ballal, an Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of <em>No Other Land</em>, is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on Tuesday, a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers.

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  • Middle East

Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director beaten by Israeli settlers, is now released

Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for No Other Land about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by Israeli security forces, his lawyer tells NPR.

March 25, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a researcher says.

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  • History

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

March 25, 2025
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  • James Doubek
Flannery O'Connor's childhood home in Savannah, located at 207 E. Charlton St.

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  • History

See inside the childhood home of Flannery O'Connor, born 100 years ago in Savannah

A pioneer of Southern Gothic literature, Flannery O'Connor spent her first 13 years of life in her hometown of Savannah.

March 25, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne

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  • Book News & Features

New books this week: Yoko, Elphaba, Amanda Knox and lost connections

This week's new releases include a memoir from Amanda Knox reflecting on her murder case and exoneration, a biography of Yoko Ono, new fiction from Column McCann, and the latest Wicked book Elphie.

March 25, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer
Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary <em>No Other Land,</em> is detained by the Israeli military from his home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday.

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  • Middle East

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by army

Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

March 24, 2025
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