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Luis Fernando Vasquez has been a coffee farmer in the central valley of Costa Rica his entire life.

Coffee For A Cause: What Do Those Feel-Good Labels Deliver?

It doesn't take much effort to find bags of coffee with labels that promise social and environmental improvements. But each one of these certification programs promises something different for the farmer and the land — and every promise involves some compromises.

Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

A handful of public-radio music curators have made you an October mix that includes new music from John Mark Nelson, Kurt Vile, EL VY, Lizzo and more.

The Twitch streamer known as Jerma985 steps up to the plate at a <a href="https://youtu.be/iquAwcSJe7o">baseball game</a> he organized between a team of clowns and another team of magicians.

With outside the box productions, streamer Jerma985 pushes the boundaries of Twitch

The streamer Jerma985 is creating huge, surreal productions for hundreds of thousands of viewers on Twitch. After his latest big show, a baseball game between clowns and magicians, we ask how-and why?

The News Corp. building in New York City, home to Fox News.

Fox News' defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

Damaris Sanchez looks at the mosquitoes caught in a house at the village of Los Encuentros, Coatepeque, Guatemala, October 4, 2022.

For these virus-hunting scientists, the 'real gold' is what's in a mosquito's abdomen

In Guatemala's mosquito-plagued lowlands, researchers use a novel tool — they call it an "insectazooka" — to suck up mosquitoes. Then they peer at the blood meal, searching for unknown pathogens.

Screening mammograms, like this one in Chicago in 2012, are among a number of preventive health services the Affordable Care Act has required health plans to cover at no charge to patients. But that could change, if the Sept. 7 ruling by a federal district judge in Texas is upheld on appeal.

How a Texas court decision threatens Affordable Care Act protections

The ACA has required health insurers to provide many medical screenings and other preventive services with no out-of-pocket cost to health plan members. But a recent court decision could upend that.

Business professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Ethan Mollick used a photo of himself (left) in an artificial intelligence platform where he generated a deepfake video of himself (right).

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start

Powerful artificial intelligence tools that can create video, audio, text and pictures are raising fears the technology will supercharge disinformation and propaganda by bad actors.

John Cleese, pictured above in 1976 with Monty Python's Flying Circus (from left, Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones), says he worked hard to learn physical comedy by imitation â "It was not something I was naturally gifted at," he says.

Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else

The co-founder of the Monty Python troupe admits he wasn't "naturally gifted" at physical comedy, and learned a lot by imitation. His new memoir, So, Anyway..., covers his boyhood and early career.

"The most endangered historic places list looks like America," says Katherine Malone-France, the Chief Preservation Officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Above, artist L.V. Hull (1942-2008) stands on the steps of her home and studio in Kosciusko, Miss., which has been unoccupied since Hull died in 2008.

Here's the latest list of the '11 Most Endangered Historic Places' in the U.S.

"It's very hard to narrow the list," says the Chief Preservation Officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 2023 list includes a gas station, an artist studio and two Chinatowns.

Ivy Lee, founder and editor of the independent Chinese-language magazine <em>Sino Monthly</em>, stands behind her desk at the magazine's N.J. headquarters.

'Like milk': How one magazine became a mainstay of New Jersey's Chinese community

Sino Monthly, run by a local couple, stands out among New Jersey's Chinese-language news outlets, most of which are tied to institutions from the Chinese government to the Falun Gong.

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