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Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Gina Chavez watched their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discussed what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a wave of record requests to eight federal agencies, including any communications by Rudy Giuliani and Ivanka Trump.

Thomas Wheeler led the Justice Department's civil rights unit through a period of transition. He told lawyers he never intended to stay in the job permanently.

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys and four associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Taurasi leaves her basketball career as the most decorated woman to ever play, with three WNBA titles, three NCAA titles and six Olympic gold medals to her name.

The federal judge, once denied a Supreme Court confirmation hearing by Republicans, faced lawmakers Monday for his nomination to lead the Justice Department.

The decision covers eight neutral-site championships in sports ranging from women's soccer to swimming and diving and from football to golf and baseball.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

Dig below the strata of pop songs so ubiquitous you can't stand to hear them anymore, and you'll find plenty of riches in the Top 40, from country crossover to innovative R&B and classic pop.

Among its questions, the committee is probing any conversations Kevin McCarthy had with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack.