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It's not often that you hear of a record company being destroyed by success, but that was the fate of one of America's most prominent soul labels, Vee-Jay Records. They recorded John Lee Hooker, the Four Seasons and Betty Everett, but the music has been unavailable for decades. A new box set ends the wait.

The president's record on keeping his campaign promises over the last four years: 47 percent, according to the watchdog PolitiFact. A boon to Obama's promise-keeping came from the passage of big-name programs like the economic stimulus package and the education program Race to the Top.

A note written by a 13-year-old Boy Scout 40 years ago was recently found on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with the former Boy Scout Tim Taylor, who is now a superior court judge in San Diego.

After winning her second gold medal, swimmer Kaylee McKeown invited Emily Seebohm to share the top step of the podium. "It was quite emotional. She had some tears in her eyes, so did I," McKeown says.

Four of the top 10 companies were American, a slight improvement from the rankings compiled in 2008.

The U.S. government has been criticized for many aspects of its handling of the Iraq war. But Douglas Feith, an architect of the war, says one of his biggest regrets is not convincing top Pentagon officials to pay more attention to law and order immediately after the fall of Baghdad in 2003.

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at the Tops supermarket in 2022.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened the Poker Creek Port of Entry Sunday. It’s the agency’s farthest-north border-crossing that connects the Taylor Highway in the eastern Interior to the Top of the world Highway in the Yukon, which leads to Dawson City.

Hundreds of dogs competed for the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this week. Penny the Doberman pinscher was named best in show.

The Interior Gas Utility has received its first LNG from a new North Slope haul, but the utility's top executive says it'll be awhile before the haul is in full swing. The first iteration of a new hand count audit found the Fairbanks North Star Borough's voting machine tabulators were 100% accurate. A massive airlift is underway in Western Alaska as Alaska National Guard planes and helicopters transport people from villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.