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With his latest album U, Baauer aims to inject good vibes into the world. It's a sunny collage of disco, house, breakbeats and more, influenced by the sounds of 2000s dance music.

Todd Blanche remained composed throughout the hours-long hearing, but faced several testy moments during questioning as he seeks to win the support of all Republican senators on the committee.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Todd Jordan, mayor of Tupelo, Miss., about how the massive winter storm has affected his city and region.

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Linda Bilmes, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and expert of budgeting and public finance, about why the war between the U.S. and Iran has become so expensive.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

Many people don't pay attention to bond markets, but they should — especially now. This is why they matter and why the drop in bond prices is signaling investor concerns about the U.S. economy.

Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to answer their questions about the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert talks with Jacob Weisberg, Chief Political Correspondent for the online magazine, Slate, about two political ads that are dry, side-by-side comparisons of the candidates' tax and spending plans. Weisberg says that this is a carry over from the Democratic convention, when Al Gore was seen to have succeeded by sticking with policy. Two other ads -- more elaborately produced with musical scores -- aim to leave the impression that their candidate is warm and inclusive while the other candidate's policies are exclusionary. (6:30) Slate magazine can be found on-line at http://slate.msn.com

Daisann (day-ZANN) McLane reports on last week's annual Carnival in Port Au Prince, Haiti. In 1990, the group Boukman Eksperyans (BOOK-mahn ex-pair-YANS) first brought overt politics into the music of the annual street party known as Carnival. Now politics are an expected part of music at Carnival. The most notable political song this year was the group Koudjae's (KOO-jai) dig at the democratically elected government. But the most appealing song was by a group of Haitian American teenagers calling themselves King Posse. (6:00) ((ST

Linda visited with people at the Inaugural Celebration today who had come to witness President Clinton's second swearing-in and Inaugural address. Many of the visitors to the nation's capital waited up to three hours in the cold, just for a glimpse of the President. She talked with a family from South Carolina, which was having an ongoing argument about which celebration would be better...the Inaugural, or the one in New Orleans preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl...and also found some surprise foreign visitors, including General Aleksandr Lebed of Russia. (6:00) ((ST