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  • A file photo from 2008 shows a gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates received lethal injections of drugs. Eight people were executed in Texas in 2023. The state policies mention a "drug team," who are not employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
    Who performs a lethal injection in the U.S.? In some states, they're volunteers
    A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.
  • Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after the central bank's policy meeting at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1, 2023. The Fed kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but projected they would be able to lower them next year.
    The Fed is probably done raising interest rates and could cut them next year
    The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, amid signs of easing inflation. The central bank signaled that its benchmark borrowing rate may start to fall next year.
  • A bronze statue honoring hometown hero and hall-of-fame rodeo roper Ikua Purdy in Waimea, Hawaii. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land — stirring worries, speculation and a lot of questions among the locals.
    A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why
    A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.
  • NPR readers share the dishes they love most for the Lunar New Year.
    Food holds special meaning on the Lunar New Year. Readers share their favorite dishes
    Much like Thanksgiving, many dishes eaten during the Lunar New Year are special to the holiday. NPR readers shared their most cherished dishes.
  • An Iranian woman featured in the FRONTLINE documentary "Inside the Iranian Uprising." Taken in Iraq, 2023.
    FRONTLINE: Inside The Iranian Uprising
    Encore Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Inside the protests that have rocked Iran since the death of a young woman in police custody. With a trove of footage filmed by protestors, much of it previously unseen, the film sheds new light on a regime under unprecedented pressure.
  • The Smoking Gun Meat Raffle
    The Smoking Gun is bringing a slice of the Midwest to the Gaslamp Quarter with their first ever Meat Raffle! Popular in Minnesota and Wisconsin, a meat raffle is just what it sounds like: a chance for patrons at their favorite local watering hole to bring home some meaty prizes – sausages, steaks, you name it. On Saturday, April 29, from Noon to 3:00 p.m., gear up for barbecue and grilling season and enter for the chance to win hundreds of dollars' worth of individually wrapped, ready-to-cook-at-home steaks and meats. Winners will also be given the option to have their meat cooked at The Smoking Gun for an additional charge. Raffle tickets can be purchased on the day of the event either directly, or through specialty cocktail purchases. The top prize is flown-in A5 Japanese Wagyu Strip Loin – something that would cost hundreds of dollars at a steakhouse! We have never seen this done in San Diego, so you won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind event, and your chance at some delicious cuts.
  • Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. Las Vegas police said they have made an arrest, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, for the first time in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.
    Nevada grand jury indicts witness in killing of Tupac Shakur
    A Nevada grand jury indicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas, prosecutors announced in court Friday
  • Winner of the Most Beautiful Award at Comic-Con International's 2016 Masquerade, “Cleopatra,” (re-creation from the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor film), worn and made by Devon Jopling. Not all costuming is about superheroes.
    Comic-Con panel recommendations for Saturday
    Max Brooks, a samurai rabbit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Quick Draw, Cartoon Voices and more!
  • Generations of mothers are at the center of 'A Grandmother Begins The Story'
    Métis writer Michelle Porter has created beauty from the ugliness of colonization, loss, addiction, abandonment, and grief in her debut novel that finds motherhood at its heart.
  • The bitter cold gripping the U.S. is blamed for at least 40 deaths, 14 in Tennessee
    Temperatures plunged below zero in parts of Tennessee, creating the largest power demand ever for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The icy blast stretches from Oregon to the Northeast.
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