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Fresh Air's rock critic presents his playlist for 2016. It includes big pop stars, beloved cult stars and a couple of not-yet-stars.

12-13-16 5:45 PM newscast

12-14-16 5:45 PM newscast

An NPR investigation has documented dramatic spikes in complicated black lung, the most serious stage of the deadly coal miners' disease.

The Hendrix song "Voodoo Child" was playing when Mark Dodero, a former grad student at San Diego State, discovered a plant species. The plant is officially called: "Dudleya hendrixii."

Steve Inskeep talks to Zeke Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare, about the future of the Affordable Care Act under Donald Trump's administration. Emanuel met this week with Trump.

The nefarious Empire is building a giant weapon in the latest installment of the Star Wars saga. Critic David Edelstein says though Rogue One is part of a series, it also works as a stand-alone film.

As Google invests in a startup called Improbable, a digital simulation of real cities, economies and biological systems, commentator Andrei Codrescu thinks of Communism and that dream of a new world.

Hoffmann grew up in the Chelsea Hotel and appeared in Field of Dreams and other films as child. She says she initially saw acting as "a means to an end." Originally broadcast Oct. 10, 2016.

Andy Borowitz's job is satirizing the news, which he does for the New Yorker's Borowitz Report. So what did he think of a year full of fabrications and fake news?