Here & Now

10/17/2026

Chickpeas are wildly healthy, inexpensive and easy to work with. Try one of these recipes:
🫘 Hummus with roasted, spiced chickpeas
🥗 Greek salad
🍲 Chana masala

They can be nutty and buttery, crisp or crunchy. You can eat them whole, pureed, or chopped. Think hummus, falafel, salads, soups, stews, curries and more.

10/16/2026

It's been 50 years since "The Muppet Show" debuted with Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and other memorable Muppets.

Dave Goelz developed and performed Gonzo, the resident daredevil in the cast. Goelz usually played Gonzo as a zany, outrageous character. But the scene where Gonzo says he's leaving the show for Hollywood brought up some unexpected emotions, Goelz said.

"In the case of my characters," Goelz said, "my process was to find a flaw within myself and amplify it and narrow it down and use it in a character, and then try to make it lovable."

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10/12/2026

They can be nutty and buttery, crispy or crunchy. You can eat them whole, pureed, or chopped.

They can be nutty and buttery, crisp or crunchy. You can eat them whole, pureed, or chopped. Think hummus, falafel, salads, soups, stews, curries and more.

10/11/2026

Want to try your hand at an America's Test Kitchen recipe? Cookies are a good place to start:
🍪 Black and pink cookies
🍪 Salted malted chocolate chunk cookies
🍪 Triple citrus gingerbread cookies

The illustrated book works as well for novices as it does professionals, with explanations of why the recipes work, as well as tips and illustrated tutorials on techniques.

10/10/2026

The last “grandmother” tree is gone.

The 150-year-old cottonwood was uprooted Monday to make way for a new 30-foot border wall in Southern Arizona. Protesters had camped there for months to try to protect the trees.

Border agents dispersed a camp of protestors along the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday. The activists in Southern Arizona were protecting the last tree in a stand of towering cottonwood trees.

10/10/2026

Karl Deisseroth was asleep when the call came telling him he’d won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in neuroscience.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their work in optogenetics, a field of neuroscience that looks at the activity of individual neurons to link them to specific behaviors.

10/09/2026

The pros from America's Test Kitchen offer tips for making the most of these cookie recipes.

The illustrated book works as well for novices as it does professionals, with explanations of why the recipes work, as well as tips and illustrated tutorials on techniques.

10/08/2026

Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman helped investigate Watergate. Now, she’s pushing back on efforts to revisit the case against Richard Nixon, as well as comparisons to the investigations of President Trump.

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10/07/2026

Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, says AI companies face a problem that carmakers faced decades ago: No company wants to be the first to admit its products could be dangerous.

She says independent auditors with access to companies’ data could help change that — and argues that consistent rules across the AI industry are essential.

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10/06/2026

The last of four 150-year-old “grandmother” cottonwood trees was uprooted in Southern Arizona to make way for a new 30-foot border wall.

Federal agents arrested protesters who had camped at the site to protect the trees.

Border agents dispersed a camp of protestors along the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday. The activists in Southern Arizona were protecting the last tree in a stand of towering cottonwood trees.