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NPR's Elissa Nadworny plays the puzzle with WMEH listener Chee Sing Lee and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

rajeshwari, 44, grades the chile's she has picked in the fields. Her sharp eyes spot the pale white pods from the sea of red. "We sort and grade these chillies by hand," she says. "The ones with the rich red color are the best, but even though the paler ones are of poorer quality, we can still sell these at the market."

Why nearly every farmer who grows these chile peppers is a woman

Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."

On Monday, the U.S. Customs portal began accepting refund requests from businesses that paid President Trump's tariffs before the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional.

Businesses race to apply for tariff refunds

Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, businesses that paid those levies began requesting refunds Monday.

She no longer remembers it's her birthday. He got her a present anyway

A special day can be tinged with sorrow when your partner has dementia. But then he found the perfect gift.

Principal Condra Allred visits a third grade class at Cleveland Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in April. Soon, Allred expects to hear for certain if her school will close.

School choice is booming in Iowa. Are students better off?

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

FILE - This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1.

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.

A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point flies over an overturned vessel offshore Saipan, Saturday, April 18, 2026, while searching for a missing vessel, the Mariana, that experienced an engine failure April 15.

US Coast Guard spots overturned vessel near Saipan during search for missing ship

The Mariana is a 145-foot dry cargo vessel registered in the U.S. It suffered engine failure Wednesday as a massive typhoon bore down on Saipan and nearby islands.

Police officers are seen at the site where a gunman killed at least six people in the streets before being shot dead by police, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 18, 2026.

A mass shooting in Ukraine's capital leaves 6 dead before police shot and killed the gunman

A gunman has killed six people and injured at least 14 in a mass shooting in Ukraine's capital before he was shot and killed by police.

Various species of sharks — some of which are endangered, while others are listed as vulnerable — are hauled on shore at dawn at the Tanjung Luar port on June 9, 2025, in East Lombok, Indonesia. Tanjung Luar is one of the largest shark markets in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, from where shark fins are exported to other Asian markets — primarily Hong Kong and China — and their bones are used in cosmetic products also sold to China.

Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis

A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.

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