Folk Musician Doc Watson Dies
Folk musician Doc Watson has died at the age of 89. Watson was considered one of America’s greatest musicians — as good a singer as he was a guitarist. Blind from the age of one, Watson taught himself to play primarily by listening to the records in his father’s collection and to the other musicians in his North Carolina mountain community. NPR’s Neda Ulaby has an appreciation.
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Chile turns right: Kast inaugurated as nation’s most conservative leader since Pinochet
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Iran’s soccer team cannot participate in the FIFA World Cup, Iranian minister says
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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school
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No Nobles Day: Britain’s Parliament boots its last hereditary Lords after 700 years
Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed aristocrats are 92 of the House of Lords' 800 members.
