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The president-elect promised a news conference on how he'd try to avoid potential conflicts of interest with his businesses (and more) as president. He canceled. Here's what we'd like answered.

The Great Galveston Storm of 1900 destroyed two-thirds of the Texas city and heavily damaged surviving structures. It remains the most deadly natural disaster and worst hurricane in U.S. history.

Astro Bot, Balatro, and Metaphor: ReFantazio claimed the most trophies at The Game Awards in a night dominated by sweeps, surprising reveals and fourth-wall breaks.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dan Reed, director of the documentary "Stopping the Steal," which covers Republican officials in Arizona and Georgia who wanted Donald Trump to win the 2020 election.

Liane Hansen speaks with zoologist Desmond Morris about his ew 6-part mini-series, "The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human pecies." The series is currently being aired Sunday nights on cable TV's "The earning Channel" throughout the month of January. A companion book also has een written to accompany the series. (Crown Publishers, Inc.) In both, Morris elves into the biology and evolution of human behavior.

Whit Stillman is the writer, director and producer of the film The Last Days of Disco which portrayed the disco scene in New York in late 1970's to the early 1980's. Stillman also wrote and directed the films Metropolitan and Barcelona. His new book is a novel which follows the action of his disco film, The Last Days of Disco with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). (REBROADCAST from 6

This interview was recorded before his Seinfeld fame. Comedian, a new documentary following Seinfeld on a recent stand up tour, is showing in theaters now. The hit TV show, Seinfeldwhich catapulted the comedian to fame, won 6 Emmy Awards before ending its run in 1999. Seinfeld is also author of the bestselling book SeinLanguageand a new children book, Halloween. (REBROADCAST FROM 9/2/87)

Grace Spruch has a thousand stories about the squirrels she's been inviting into her fifth floor Greenwich Village apartment. She shares some of those stories -- and squirrel time -- with NPR's Margot Adler. (6:00) Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels, by Grace Marmor Spruch, is published by Johnson Books. ISBN # 1555662579.

Robert talks with Tom Segev, author of One Palestine, Complete, about his book, which explores the history of Palestine under British rule from 1917 to 1948. He argues, through the examination of archival materials, that the British were not pro-Arab as popularly believed, but favored the Zionists. (6:00)One Palestine, Complete, by Tom Segev is published by Henry Holt, November 2000.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.”