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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Joan Suits and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Created as alternatives to the hitmaking monoliths of commercial radio, AAA stations have pushed artists like Lorde into the mainstream. Now, they're facing pressure to pick tomorrow's hits.

House and Senate lawmakers formally kicked off negotiations over funding the Department of Homeland Security, facing a Feb. 15 deadline for a spending bill Trump will sign to avoid another shutdown.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from U.S. diplomat James Jeffrey as Congress considers new sanctions against Turkey. But the top Senate Republican warns against action against an ally.

The practice dates back to the 1920s, when a new cohort of students — many of them Jewish and/or immigrants — were vying for space at American universities.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Republican Mark Walker of North Carolina about what's in the tax legislation from Senate Republicans and how the party plans to get it passed by the end of the year.

Despite Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's publicized shot with an Iranian-made vaccine, few citizens have been able to get inoculated in the country hardest hit by the coronavirus in the Middle East.

In a civil suit filed this week, the Justice Department accuses a New York medical analytics company of helping a Medicare Advantage plan cheat taxpayers out of millions of dollars.

College football fans have just one last chance to complain about the Bowl Championship Series after this weekend. Since it was started in 1998, the complicated ranking system has determined which two teams will play for the national championship. The BCS has rankled fans and media alike every single year since then. But the era, if not the angst, is over; the BCS is gone after this season, and will be replaced by a four team playoff. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis is happy to see it go and gives Robert Siegel a primer of which teams are likely in or out of the BCS Championship Game this year.

Sea-level rise is so acute in South Florida that local governments are eyeing hundreds of millions in spending to mitigate floodwaters. But wealthy foreign investors don't seem fazed.