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  • Bari Weiss quit The New York Times to launch The Free Press. Now, she's joining CBS News as its top editor.
  • The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been caught up in the scandal surrounding former CIA Director David Petraeus. But the Pentagon chief cautioned today that Allen may not have done anything inappropriate.
  • Next week, Billboard's chart of the country's top 200 best-selling albums will for the first time include streams and downloads of singles, after decades of only counting whole album sales.
  • The justices ruled in 2014 that extreme juror bias could impede a fair trial and, if such a case arose, they would decide then if an exception was warranted. Now, that case has come.
  • The orchestra's top flutist, Elizabeth Rowe, says that she is paid substantially less than her closest counterpart — a man. Her suit may be the first filed under a new Massachusetts pay equity law.
  • A group of lawmakers and staff with the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures spent a year and a half studying the best school systems in the world. Here's what they learned.
  • The Iowa Democratic Party has released results from last night's caucuses showing Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders neck and neck at the top. But more results are still to come.
  • Facebook's celebrity executives — Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg — were not on Capitol Hill yesterday when Congress grilled the company's top lawyer about incendiary Russian ads on the platform. Instead, they were on an earnings call with investors announcing a 79 percent jump in profits, fueled by the company's dominance in online advertising. NPR's Aarti Shahani looks at how advertising is the key to Facebook's success and how that may change following the Russian debacle.
  • Yesterday was a horrible day for Houston Rockets fans. I know this because I am one, and my 15-year-old son is even more so, and he made his angst quite clear. It was an even worse day for Detroit Pistons fans, whose team ended this season with the worst record in the NBA. On the other hand, it was an outstanding evening for fans of the San Antonio Spurs, who tied with Houston for the second worst record. To be clear, none of these teams played last night. The only two teams on the court yesterday were Denver and the Los Angeles Lakers, who played game one of the Western Conference Finals. Tonight, Boston and Miami will play the first game for the East. Other than that, the off-season has begun.
  • You voted! We counted! Here are the results of our 2015 Listener Poll for the year's best albums.
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