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Different types of potatoes seed are seen displayed in "Parque de la Papa" or Potato Park, in Pisac, Peru. One hundred and fifty type of tubers from the Sacred Valley highlands are native to Peru.

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  • Latin America

If You Love Potatoes, Tomatoes Or Chocolate Thank Indigenous Latin American Cultures

These delicious treats were cultivated and enjoyed by native people for hundreds if not thousands of years. But with the arrival of the Spanish in Latin America, they were shared around the globe.

September 21, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Uncollected or duplicate photographs found in boxes and drawers in backrooms of Kabul's photo studios.

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  • Photography

These Unclaimed Afghan Studio Portraits Bear Witness To Decades Of History

In the back rooms of Kabul's photo shops, thousands of photos dating as far back as 40-plus years sit unclaimed. It remains to be seen if these photo studios can survive a new period of Taliban rule.

September 21, 2021
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  • Lynzy Billing
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  • Obituaries

Remembering The Man Who Made Tech For Everyone

Sir Clive Sinclair, a computing pioneer and an inventor that spent a lifetime making technology accessible for everyone, has died at age 81.

September 21, 2021
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By:
  • Mano Sundaresan and
  • Gabe O'Connor
Georgian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili plays at the International Chess Congress in London on Dec. 30, 1964. She is suing Netflix for defamation and invasion of privacy over its series <em>The Queen's Gambit.</em>

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  • Law

A Chess Trailblazer Is Suing Netflix Over Her Portrayal In 'The Queen's Gambit'

Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show's final episode that falsely says she hadn't played against male opponents.

September 18, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Anderson and Karen Lawson at their StoryCorps recording in Atlanta in 2015.

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  • Games

Their Dad Transformed Video Games In The 1970s — And Passed On His Pioneering Spirit

The late Jerry Lawson helped invent the first video game console with interchangeable games. His children say he brought the fun and games home and showed them they could create their own path.

September 17, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Smith and
  • Emma Bowman
The chile en nogada — a stuffed poblano pepper covered in a walnut sauce — has become a classic Mexican dish. The version plated here comes from Ricardo Muñoz Zurita's Azul Condesa restaurant in Mexico City.

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  • Food

For 200 Years, Chiles En Nogada Has Been An Iconic, And Patriotic, Mexican Meal

In celebration of Mexico's Independence Day, many people will eat the green, white and red dish of stuffed peppers in walnut sauce. Noted chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich is among them.

September 16, 2021
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  • Gus Contreras,
  • Amy Isackson,
  • and 1 more
Sir Walter Raleigh, an English adventurer, writer and explorer of the Americas, founded a colony in North Carolina in 1587 that later disappeared. Archaeologists hope to uncover new clues about what happened.

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  • History

Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony Vanished Over 400 Years Ago. Scientists Are Still Looking

Archaeologists hope a new search will unearth clues about what happened to 117 men, women and children who vanished from a North Carolina settlement.

September 16, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Cover of <em>In the Country of Others </em>and author Leila Slimani.

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  • Race

Walking Through "The Country Of Others"

In her new novel, In the Country of Others, Leila Slimani explores what it means to be an outsider. Her characters fight to establish their own identities while their country, Morocco, does the same.

September 15, 2021
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  • Leah Donnella
The late U.S. Army Gen. Richard E. Cavazos was the first Hispanic American promoted to the rank of four-star general.

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  • Politics

Fort Hood Should Be Renamed After The 1st Hispanic 4-Star General, Lawmakers Say

The federal government is continuing to decide how it will rename bases across the U.S. named after Confederate service members, a mandate included in the defense bill approved by Congress in January.

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
The cover of Bethany C. Morrow's new book, <em>So Many Beginnings.</em>

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  • Race

Little Women Remixed, But Not Reimagined

When Bethany Morrow was asked to write a new take on the beloved classic, she agreed on one condition: The new March family would look nothing like the old.

September 12, 2021
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates
Members of the Berlin city fire department attend a ceremony Saturday near the Breitscheidplatz memorial to commemorate fellow firefighters and other victims killed in the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.

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  • World

On The 20th Anniversary, U.S. Allies Honor The Lives Lost On 9/11

World leaders are expressing their sympathies for the victims of the 9/11 attacks. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the terrorists had failed to "shake our belief in freedom and democracy."

September 11, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
<strong>Left:</strong> Upper West Side; <strong>Right:</strong> Harlem. Summer 2002

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  • National

The Summer After 9/11, A Photographer Documents A City's Healing

Photographer Lucas Foglia was 19 during the summer of 2002 when he made portraits NYC residents.

September 11, 2021
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By:
  • Lucas Foglia and
  • Michele Abercrombie
Two men identified by authorities as hijackers Mohamed Atta (right) and Abdulaziz Alomari (center) pass through airport security on Sept. 11, 2001, at Portland International Jetport in Maine in an image from airport surveillance tape released on Sept. 19, 2001.

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  • National

It Was Shoes On, No Boarding Pass Or ID. But Airport Security Forever Changed On 9/11

No boarding pass or ID was needed to go to the gate, and 4-inch-blade knives were allowed aboard planes. Now we take off shoes, can't have liquids over 3.4 oz and go through high-tech body scanners.

September 10, 2021
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By:
  • David Schaper
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in the 2014 TV show 24: Live Another Day.

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  • Television

From TV News Tickers to Homeland: The Ways TV Was Affected By 9/11

There is a long list of ways America was transformed by the terrorist attacks. But the question of how TV itself was changed — particularly in ways still relevant today — is more complicated.

September 10, 2021
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
William Redmond III, a visitor from Atlanta, takes a photo of the historic plaque marking Bruce's Beach in April in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

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  • Race

A Beachfront Property Taken From A Black Family A Century Ago May Soon Be Returned

The California Legislature approved a bill that would let county officials give Bruce's Beach back to the family that owned it nearly a century ago. It now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.

September 10, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
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