Springfield Ballet announces its new season; The Gillioz hosts The Rising Revisited, a reimagining of Bruce Springsteen's post-9/11 album; the Film Foundry hosts a filmmakers showcase; a new book explores the history of the Springfield Art Museum; and we pay tribute to the great Dolly Parton.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with the Womack Sisters about their debut self-titled album and their chance to bring something new to their family musical legacy.
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At this year's Fringe festival, the audience is hot and cold on a new performance space — in a saunaEvery August, millions gather in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Fringe, the world's largest performing arts festival. This year's festival features a sauna.
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Warming ocean waters are teeing up a particularly strong El Niño weather pattern.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to actor O'Shea Jackson, Jr., about starring in the new comedy "Idiots," which follows two incompetent men as they transport a problematic teenager to a rehab center.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and KNOW listener Karen Hillerman of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
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The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
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Tariffs continue to rile all kinds of American businesses more than a year after Trump unveiled his first set of tariffs — including a comic book store owner in Ohio.
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Dolly Parton's songs traveled far beyond Nashville. Across Africa, musicians embraced her stories of hardship, heartbreak and humble beginnings — and made them their own.
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Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
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Medicare launched a pilot program that could streamline the process to get GLP-1s, with some seniors paying just $50 a month. But many people with the most serious illnesses won't get that discount.
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His family in Afghanistan had received threats from the Taliban because of the work performed by his brothers in support of the U.S. military.
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In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.