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Discover a broad range of the year's best classical albums, from groundbreaking teenage percussionists and innovative opera singers to fierce orchestral composers and brainy pianists.

Six lions were found dead and dismembered in a suspected poisoning in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. The park is home to hundreds of bird species and nearly 100 types of mammals.

Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever and two artists — Alex Warren and BigXthaPlug — experience their first-ever top 10 singles.

Senate Republicans blocked a plan to move forward on legislation Friday to establish a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean insists he will not drop out of the Democratic presidential race if he loses Tuesday's primary in Wisconsin. But a top Dean campaign aide is planning to offer his help to frontrunner John Kerry, if Dean doesn't win in Wisconsin. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.

A commission on Abu Ghraib prison abuses, headed by former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, finds fault throughout the chain of military command and in Washington. Top leaders are criticized for failing to provide adequate resources to the prison. Hear Schlesinger and NPR's Robert Siegel.

Some top researchers now say that climate change has led to stronger hurricanes. Now, there's a push to expand the wind scale to include a Category 6 for winds as powerful as those seen last year.

Attacks among Democratic presidential campaigns are getting sharper. Amid simmering hostility, the candidates will be face-to-face tonight in Des Moines for the last debate before the Iowa caucuses.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his list of the 10 best albums of 2014 (and a few honorable mentions).

A new report by the consumer-interest nonprofit Public Citizen calls out major retailers for donating to trade groups and campaigns supporting harsher shoplifting penalties in at least 18 states.