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Narcotraffickers embrace Catholic, folk saints to aid criminal pursuits

Narcotraffickers embrace Catholic, folk saints to aid criminal pursuits

USA Today — Experts say cartels echo others such as Italian mafiosi who test religious boundaries by looking to Catholic saints to justify illicit activities.
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The penny, America's oldest and most iconic coin in circulation, dies at 232

The penny, America's oldest and most iconic coin in circulation, dies at 232

USA Today — The U.S. Mint officially stamped the last penny coin in November 2025 after a 232-year-run. But the iconic coin will be remembered by tycoons and panhandlers alike as a sign of American humility and grit.
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How segments of Christianity overlap with the manosphere and what it means for women

How segments of Christianity overlap with the manosphere and what it means for women

USA Today — The rise of the manosphere, with its call for a return to traditional gender roles, reflects a backlash to power-shifting cultural changes. Now it's converging with segments of conservative evangelical Christianity.
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Political protest is deeply embedded in Day of the Dead, a crossover U.S. tradition

Political protest is deeply embedded in Day of the Dead, a crossover U.S. tradition

USA Today — While Day of the Dead is often thought of primarily as a way for families to honor lost loved ones, it has also provided a vehicle for social protest from issues ranging from the Vietnam War to the U.S.-Mexico border crisis.
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Texas boy is the world's youngest mariachi. For his dad, it's a return to Mexican family roots

Texas boy is the world's youngest mariachi. For his dad, it's a return to Mexican family roots

USA Today — Mateo Lopez, 7, was named the world's youngest mariachi by Guinness World Records. Some see a future star. For Mateo's father, it's more complicated.
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Arab Americans, deemed 'white' in government records, suffer an unseen COVID-19 crisis

Arab Americans, deemed 'white' in government records, suffer an unseen COVID-19 crisis

USA Today — As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across America, the nation's 3.7 million Arab Americans had few ways to determine the disease's effects on a community at high risk for the disease. Considered at the time to be "White" by the federal government, their data was instead absorbed into the mainstream. “We are told we are white when in reality, we are deprived of proper and accurate statistical data,” said Hasibe Rashid, of New York City’s planning department. “We are expected to conform to something we do not agree with, and worse yet, something society does not see us as."
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Mezcal goes mainstream

Mezcal goes mainstream

The Dallas Morning News — As the craft-cocktail renaissance spread across America in the early 2000s, new and foreign spirits, liqueurs and mixers rose to meet the demand. Among them were mezcal and other agave-based spirits highlighting the diversity of Mexican distillates beyond tequila, but the ensuing boom in popularity has threatened agave supplies and put the livelihoods of its largely small-batch producers at risk.
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When cucumbers fly: Hendrick's Gin's most unusual form of air transport comes to Texas

When cucumbers fly: Hendrick's Gin's most unusual form of air transport comes to Texas

barmoire.com — Much is inherently ridiculous about the notion of a flying cucumber, and yet such concerns did little to deter Hendrick's, the decidedly unusual Scotland-based gin, from conceiving just such a thin...
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Zach's Journey: A story of boyhood, bravery and blindness | eBook

Zach's Journey: A story of boyhood, bravery and blindness | eBook

www.barnesandnoble.com — Rapidly and surely, Zach Thibodeaux is going blind — the result of a condition called cone-rod dystrophy, a degenerative disease that is destroying the cells of his retina and for which there is no cure. At the age of 8, he’s coping with questions that are hard to imagine: How do you prepare for a life of blindness? What would you want to see? What would you do?
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A life-altering event prompted a mild-mannered man to become a superhero

A life-altering event prompted a mild-mannered man to become a superhero

Seattle Times — In suburban Seattle, a life-changing event prompted a mild-mannered man to become a superhero. While heroes are more sought after than ever, Mark Wyzenbeek isn't looking to save the world. But he just might be saving himself.
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