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Wine has its sommeliers and coffee its graders — people who taste and compare these products systematically. But until now, cacao has lacked such a process, and implementing it appears to be good for chocolate lovers and farmers alike.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with the debut novelist Portia Elan. Her book Homebound travels through centuries and through the imagination.

One of the Tiny Desk Contest judges introduces us to finalists Les Greene and the Swayzees, a group based in Miami, Fla.

Families in Norfolk, Va., await the return of roughly 15,000 sailors and Marines as the USS Ford continues a deployment that started more than 10 months ago.

The vast majority of Americans — 8 in 10 — say there should be age caps for members of Congress, as well as term limits, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

What were the year's highlights from this year's Met Gala, and how did fashion's biggest night come to be cosponsored by Jeff Bezos?

Editor of the editorial page at the Des Moines Register, DENNIS RYERSON. RYERSON and the staff are putting out the paper during the floods, without running water or electricty; they work in daylight with pencils and typewriters. RYERSON was in the unique position to report on the near fistfight between the Des Moines mayor and its city council over the right time to turn on the city's water supply.

In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead.

Jewel's new single is called "Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love."

Olivia Rodrigo's third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, doesn't come out until June. But it's already off to a tremendous start on this week's Billboard charts.

The Trump administration is in a new full-court press to message optimism on the unpopular war in Iran.

Blue Film is clearly designed to be unsettling. Its performances are haunting.