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5 days ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Alejandra Márquez Janse |Ari Shapiro |Patrick Jarenwattananon
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is accelerating his pledge to donate most of what remains of his fortune to charity. Gates, who was once the world's richest man, announced Thursday that he will give around $200 billion over the next 20 years to his charity, the Gates Foundation. He also announced the foundation would close by 2045. "People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that 'he died rich' will not be one of them," Gates wrote in a blog post announcing the plans.
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1 week ago | 
ijpr.org | Avery Keatley |Scott Detrow |Patrick Jarenwattananon
PURCELLVILLE, Va. — Becky Harris was not a big whiskey drinker before she co-founded the Catoctin Creek Distilling Company. She was a chemical engineer specializing in industrial production. And she has learned to trust her palate. "You know, people have been making whiskey with almost nothing for hundreds of years," Harris said. "We kind of came in, came at it with that aspect."Becky Harris and her husband, Scott Harris, started their distillery 16 years ago.
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1 week ago | 
wesa.fm | Connor Donevan |Ailsa Chang |Patrick Jarenwattananon
The Trump administration has sent migrants it calls terrorists to an overseas prison for indefinite detention. To some, it echoes the U.S.'s detainment of "unlawful enemy combatants" after 9/11.
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1 week ago | 
ctpublic.org | Connor Donevan |Ailsa Chang |Patrick Jarenwattananon
SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories and resources. For updates, sign up for the SOMOS CONNECTICUT newsletter at ctpublic.org/newsletters.
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1 week ago | 
kpbs.org | Avery Keatley |Scott Detrow |Patrick Jarenwattananon
PURCELLVILLE, Va. — Becky Harris was not a big whiskey drinker before she co-founded the Catoctin Creek Distilling Company. She was a chemical engineer specializing in industrial production. And she has learned to trust her palate. "You know, people have been making whiskey with almost nothing for hundreds of years," Harris said. "We kind of came in, came at it with that aspect."Becky Harris and her husband, Scott Harris, started their distillery 16 years ago.
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1 week ago | 
ijpr.org | Avery Keatley |Scott Detrow |Patrick Jarenwattananon
PURCELLVILLE, Va. — Becky Harris was not a big whiskey drinker before she co-founded the Catoctin Creek Distilling Company. She was a chemical engineer specializing in industrial production. And she has learned to trust her palate. "You know, people have been making whiskey with almost nothing for hundreds of years," Harris said. "We kind of came in, came at it with that aspect."Becky Harris and her husband, Scott Harris, started their distillery 16 years ago.
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1 week ago | 
kpbs.org | Avery Keatley |Scott Detrow |Patrick Jarenwattananon
PURCELLVILLE, Va. — Becky Harris was not a big whiskey drinker before she co-founded the Catoctin Creek Distilling Company. She was a chemical engineer specializing in industrial production. And she has learned to trust her palate. "You know, people have been making whiskey with almost nothing for hundreds of years," Harris said. "We kind of came in, came at it with that aspect."Becky Harris and her husband, Scott Harris, started their distillery 16 years ago.
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1 week ago | 
npr.org | Juana Summers |Patrick Jarenwattananon |Lauren Hodges
Heritage Foundation president talks about Trump's 100 days Transcript Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5381119/nx-s1-5442572-1" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, in April 2023. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J.
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2 weeks ago | 
hawaiipublicradio.org | Kathryn Fink |Patrick Jarenwattananon |Juana Summers
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:Normally, we wouldn't be airing stories about any one football player being drafted by an NFL team, especially not someone picked on the third day in the fifth round of the draft. But a quarterback from the University of Colorado named Shedeur Sanders was expected to go in the first or second round after a record-setting college career. Instead, on Saturday, he was picked 144th overall by the Cleveland Browns.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctpublic.org | Courtney Dorning |Patrick Jarenwattananon |Mary Kelly |Kat Lonsdorf
SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories and resources. For updates, sign up for the SOMOS CONNECTICUT newsletter at ctpublic.org/newsletters.
