Musician Diana Gameros, in a scene from her video for "Bajo El Sol (De Tu Verdad)."

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Alt.Latino

Discover Latin Musicians From The 2016 Tiny Desk Contest

This week on Alt.Latino, hear an incredible range of Latin sounds from this year's entrants.
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Damien Jurado's new album, Visions Of Us On The Land, comes out March 18.

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First Listen

First Listen: Damien Jurado, 'Visions Of Us On The Land'

Jurado finishes a trilogy of albums with a sprawling, 17-song story arc that leaves loose ends while remaining anchored in gorgeous songwriting and lush, layered indie-folk arrangements.
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Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her late daughter, Brittany Maynard, while speaking to the media in September after the passage of California's End Of Life Option Act. Maynard was an advocate for the law.

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Shots - Health News

California To Permit Medically Assisted Suicide As Of June 9 KQED

Terminally ill Californians will legally be able to get medicine from doctors to end their own lives. The end of the state's special legislative session Thursday made it official.

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Composer Bear McCreary is known for scoring popular television shows like Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead. His first film score is for 10 Cloverfield Lane.

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Music News

From TV To 'Cloverfield,' Composer Plays With Surprise — And Luck

When a film starts, "you have anywhere from two to 10 seconds to get the audience's attention," score writer Bear McCreary says. He gained this and other advice from his mentor, whom he met by chance.
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Shots - Health News

Hospitals Adapt ERs To Meet Patient Demand For Routine Care WMFE

Many Floridians and other Americans turn to the ER for problems that aren't emergencies, a poll suggests, even though the experience can be unpleasant. Some ERs are striving to change their image.
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A Tokyo Electric Power Co. staffer measures the radiation level as others work on the construction of an ice wall at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on July 9, 2014.

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The Two-Way - News Blog

Water, Soil And Radiation: Why Fukushima Will Take Decades To Clean Up

Five years after meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, progress has been made, but there's still plenty to do.
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is proposing first privacy regulations for Internet service providers.

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FCC Proposal Would Limit What Internet Providers Can Do With Users' Data

On March 31, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on what could become first-ever privacy rules for Internet service providers, stemming from last year's net neutrality ruling.
This is one of the shipping containers at the church compound where the massacre allegedly occurred. There are conflicting accounts of which container the men and boys were forced into.

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Goats and Soda

South Sudan Soldiers Suffocated 60-Plus Men And Boys, Report Says

The massacre reportedly occurred at a church compound, where the victims were forced into a shipping container. Amnesty International is calling it a "war crime."
Justin Worst, Marlo Webber and Jes Waldrip show off an LED light implant. Grindhouse Wetware calls it the Northstar.

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All Tech Considered

'Body Hacking' Movement Rises Ahead Of Moral Answers

In what they say is a quest to create a better human, body hackers implant digital devices into their bodies. Despite ethical and moral concerns, they say they are welcoming an era of transhumanism.
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Sarah Paulson plays prosecutor Marcia Clark and Sterling K. Brown plays fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden in the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

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Television

Sarah Paulson Strives To 'Get It Right' As O.J. Simpson Prosecutor FA

The actress set out to portray Marcia Clark in a "truthful way" in FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson. "I read, watched and listened to any and everything I could get my hands on," Paulson says.
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President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walk from the Oval Office to a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday.

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The Two-Way - News Blog

U.S., Canada Announce Shared Goals For Fighting Climate Change

President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled goals for cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by more than 40 percent by 2025, among other ambitious targets.