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The history behind an enduring public health falsehood — that vaccines cause autism

For years, RFK Jr. has been an ardent vaccine skeptic who has also repeatedly claimed that vaccines cause autism. But that particular myth didn't start with him.
- Rund Abdelfatah
'Always smiling.' Wing Luke's influence on Seattle and Washington

Wing Luke would have turned 100 years old in 2025, something that the Wing Luke Museum is commemorating this year.
- Kyle Norris
Trump is asserting extraordinary power over independent agencies. Is the Fed next?

The rise and potential fall of independent agencies.
- Greg Rosalsky
'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.
- Maureen Corrigan
'Jesus Wept' author chronicles the debates roiling the Catholic church

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.
- Dave Davies
President McKinley implemented steep tariffs to protect industry. Did they work?

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?
- Wailin Wong
Remembering KYAC: the Seattle Black-owned radio station that felt like home

If you wanted to hear soul music in Seattle circa 1970, there was one local station that would never disappoint: KYAC. For Black History Month, producer Lauren Williams went back in time to 1970s Seattle to ask folks about what it was like to work at and listen to KYAC during its heyday.
- Libby Denkmann
First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.
- Neda Ulaby
A cave explorer's tragic death 100 years ago led to the creation of a national park

An explorer of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky who died 100 years ago is credited with the creation of the national park.
- Michael Collins
Squeeze into a photo booth for a Valentine's Day smooch

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.
- Chloe Veltman

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