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A worker at the Wupperthal Original Rooibos Co-operative's processing facility carries a bag of freshly harvested rooibos to the processing area. The country's rooibos tea exports have skyrocketed from barely 500 tons in 1996 to nearly 9,000 tons today — enough to fill 3.6 billion teabags. But Indigenous farmers were long cut out of the revenues, until a ground-breaking agreement was forged.

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How these Indigenous farmers finally got paid for their world-famous rooibos tea

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown trendy — 9,000 tons exported a year — they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

May 30, 2023
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  • Tommy Trenchard
A megaphone facing the Chinese mainland marks the tourist location of the Beishan Broadcasting Wall, which Taiwan used for broadcasting propaganda to mainland China, is seen on April 8, in Kinmen, Taiwan.

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  • Asia

How Taiwan used women's voices to send secret messages into China and woo defectors

Decades ago, Taiwan set up propaganda broadcast stations on islands right off the coast of mainland China. One of its key tools: women's voices.

May 29, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light in Chassell, Mich., dates to 1919. Interested? The federal government is now taking applications to transfer the property to a new owner who promises to maintain the historic structure.

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  • National

Look out, it's lighthouse season. The government is offering 10 fixer-uppers

As part of an annual effort, the General Services Administration is offloading six lighthouses this year to eligible groups that promise to maintain them. The rest will be auctioned off to the public.

May 28, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hilton Anatole on July 11, 2021 in Dallas, Texas.

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  • National

Republican-led Texas House impeaches state Attorney General Ken Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been impeached by fellow Republicans in a historic vote in the Texas House. He will immediately and temporarily be suspended from his duties.

May 27, 2023
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán | The Texas Newsroom
Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton reads a statement at his office in Austin, Texas, Friday, May 26, 2023. An investigating committee says the Texas House of Representatives will vote Saturday on whether to impeach.

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  • National

The Texas AG may be impeached by members of his own party. Here are the allegations

Saturday, the Texas House will vote on whether to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton who investigators say allegedly abused his office to help a campaign donor by committing bribery and more.

May 27, 2023
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán | The Texas Newsroom and
  • Acacia Squires
Seen in happier days: Trump helped DeSantis win a tough GOP primary for governor in 2018 and was still an ally when the two appeared together in 2019 in Sunrise, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trailing Trump, DeSantis still bears burdens that have brought down past front-runners

Being clearly the party's Plan B right now has a downside for DeSantis because it makes him Target A for Trump and for all the other candidates.

May 27, 2023
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  • Ron Elving
Yazmin Lopez, here at home in Madison, Wis., first learned about credit scores from a personal finance book she picked up at Goodwill a few years after coming to the U.S. as a teenager.

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  • Business

Welcome to America! Now learn to be in debt

The U.S. economy counts on you to borrow money and stay in debt for a credit score. But what if you were taught to never owe anybody anything?

May 24, 2023
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  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Tirzah Christopher
A patch on a pair of Levi 513 jeans. An immigrant tailor Jacob Davis teamed up with dry goods merchant Levi Strauss to patent the first rivet blue jeans in 1873.

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  • Arts & Life

Durable and enduring, blue jeans turn 150

It's hard to imagine a piece of clothing that's more wrapped up in American history and mythology than blue jeans. They were invented 150 years ago.

May 23, 2023
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  • Jessica Green
The Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona

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  • Environment

Colorado River states announce breakthrough water sharing deal

A new breakthrough deal for sharing the over-promised Colorado River has been reached by the seven states that share it.

May 22, 2023
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  • Kirk Siegler
This choir from South Africa spent two years singing in Britain, and even performed for Queen Victoria in 1891. But their journey did not end well.

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  • Global Health

A South African choir sang for Queen Victoria. They had great highs — and awful lows

The singers traveled to England for a tour to raise money to build a technical college. Their story is receiving renewed attention because of a new dance performance based on the concert tour.

May 21, 2023
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  • Penny Dale
Former President Donald Trump greets supporters at a campaign rally on April 27, 2023 in Manchester, N.H.

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  • Politics

Ghost of William Jennings Bryan haunts Trump's next run for the White House

Comparisons between the two began cropping up early in 2016, right about the time former President Trump's candidacy was bringing the word "populist" back into the daily political conversation.

May 20, 2023
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  • Ron Elving
Experts say the model will be a valuable tool for future Titanic research and deep-sea exploration in general.

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  • History

A remarkable new view of the Titanic shipwreck is here, thanks to deep-sea mappers

The Titanic wreck is hard to reach and harder to capture, with most images showing just a section at a time. The first full-sized digital scan offers what experts call a game-changing view.

May 20, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Martin Luther King Jr. never said he thought Malcolm X "has done himself and our people a great disservice," a biographer says. The two civil rights leaders with opposing views on nonviolence met only once, in March of 1964.

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  • Race

New biography of Martin Luther King Jr. undercuts a widely cited quote about Malcolm X

A critical quote about Malcolm X that has been attributed to King has been taught for decades. But King didn't say the words that appeared in an article by Alex Haley, says biographer Jonathan Eig.

May 16, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a Forever stamp honoring Standing Bear, the Ponca chief who championed 14th Amendment rights.

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  • National

Chief Standing Bear, Native American civil rights icon, is honored on a postal stamp

A U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp now celebrates the Ponca chief, whose lawsuit led to a 1879 ruling that determined Native Americans were people with inherent rights under the law.

May 13, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
When she first arrived in the U.S. decades ago, Queen Titile Keskessa didn't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was. Today, she is inspired by his legacy and the work of other African American civil rights icons.

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  • Race

Reporter's notebook: The South is home to a growing Black immigrant population

What's it like to be a Black immigrant or refugee in America? We had a hundred or so conversations with people in Tennessee — one of the Blackest states in the country — to find out.

May 12, 2023
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  • Leah Donnella
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