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A new bill from a top Democrat seeks to close a loophole that federal judges have used to collect pension benefits despite facing credible accusations of wrongdoing by employees.

NPR's Libby Lewis reports on police accountability and whether efforts to protect police officers from investigations immediately after an incident are necessary or not.

The United Nations has long been in the spotlight over allegations of child rape and other sexual abuses by its peacekeepers, especially by those based in Congo and the Central African Republic.

We hear a montage of reports from eyewitnesses to the shuttle Columbia disaster.

We hear a montage of reports from eyewitnesses to the Columbia disaster. (This is a repeat from earlier in the show.)

By all accounts, math is no longer an important criteria for college sports. At least not when it comes to college athletic conferences. As you may know with recent announcements, the Big 10 is about to house 16 teams. The Pac 12 is down to 10, where it used to be. The Big 12 will soon be 12 again, but it’s been 10 for a long time. Fortunately, the SEC and ACC have avoided numbers altogether, which makes their expansion and contraction much cleaners, even as they stretch the boundaries of geography.

Georgia looms large in politics — both in the ongoing Jan. 6 committee's work, and in upcoming elections.

One of the first acts of the 104th Congress was to require members to comply with the federal workplace laws from which Congress has traditionally exempted itself. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that a new report says that means more than 40 percent of Congressional staffers should be getting overtime.

A Swiss banker has pleaded not guilty to charges he helped thousands of Americans evade paying their taxes. Raoul Weil was one of the top managers at UBS, a Swiss bank that helped nearly 20,000 Americans hide their assets in secret accounts.