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  • "If Donald Trump had succeeded, he'd be bragging about it," says Raskin, a member of the Jan. 6 panel. He argues the former president must be held accountable based on the facts and what the laws say.
  • No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport's final weekend in consecutive years.
  • Liz Cheney's book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning slams Trump's efforts to stay in power after 2020 and the Republicans who enabled him. She tells NPR why voters should mobilize against him.
  • The prairie hamlet of Swett — population 2 plus a dog — comes with 6 acres, a house, three trailers, an old tire shop and a Volvo semi. If you don't have the money, no Swett.
  • Fewer Americans applied for unemployment insurance last week. But Friday's much-anticipated report on payroll growth and unemployment in January may not offer particularly good news, economists say.
  • The IOC says it will get closer to gender balance among Olympic athletes, boosting women to nearly 49 percent of the total at the Tokyo 2020 Games, from 45.6 percent in Rio.
  • Stand-up comic JIMMY TINGLE. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/1/90)Filmmaker PAUL MAZURSKY. Mazursky's movies include "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Enemies: A Love Story," "Down and Out In Beverly Hills" and "Scenes From a Mall." (REBROADCAST FROM 2/18/91)Author ROBB FORMAN DEW. In her novels--Dale Loves Sophie to Death (Harper Perennial) and Fortunate Lives (Harper Perennial) - DEW explored the ambiguities and intricacies of families. DEW made her non-fiction debut with a memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's called The Family Heart and it's just been published in paperback (Ballantine). (REBROADCAST FROM 5/12/94)Writer GARY PAULSEN. He is a prolific writer of children's books. He began writing over twenty years ago, when he was coming to terms with his alcoholism. In 1985, PAULSON won the Newberry Award for children's fiction with Dogsong. He reads from his memoir Eastern Sun, Western Moon. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/12/93)DOROTHY BEAM-Her son Joe Beam died of AIDS in 1989. He was a writer who was in the process of editing his second anthology of Black gay writing. Dorothy helped finish the work her son started, and it was published in 1992 as Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (Alyson Publications). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/
  • Over the weekend, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's odds went from 75/1 to 6/1, Ladbrokes reports. He is the second favorite, behind Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.
  • The end of Round 8 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest has finally arrived. We've read through more than 6,000 stories, and now our judge for this round, novelist Luis Alberto Urrea, has picked his favorite.
  • U.S. employers added 303,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.8%. Construction companies added 39,000 jobs, despite high interest rates.
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