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  • NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMC listener Jeremiah Hyslip of New York City along with Weekend Edition Puzzle Master Will Shortz.
  • President Biden is delivering his State of the Union address on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET. The speech is expected to highlight the strength of the economy and past legislative wins.
  • GMAC is the most recent beneficiary of a government bailout. As the financing arm of General Motors, it supplies funding for auto dealers to buy inventory and credit for consumers to buy cars. It is also a major player in the home mortgage market.
  • Frederick Moorefield Jr., a deputy chief information officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, allegedly used an encrypted messaging app to discuss dogfighting with people across the U.S.
  • Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service reported.
  • In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.
  • Sad news from the sports world: UNC coach Dean Smith passed away Saturday night. Mike Pesca of Slate.com's The Gist podcast tells NPR's Rachel Martin what kind of coach Smith was.
  • Flooding from a sprinkler line break closed a building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tuesday, leading faculty and administrators to relocate some final exams. // Legendary Alaska adventurer Dick Griffith passed away earlier this month at the age of 98. // The federal government’s official name for North America’s tallest peak is Mount McKinley, but Alaska’s senior senator argues it shouldn’t be. // A program that helps boaters use buoys to track weather conditions wrapped another successful season this fall. // Last week, some music apps gave users their top songs, artists and genres of the year, so what were some Alaska lawmakers listening to this year?
  • The State Department will not release 37 pages of Clinton emails because they are top secret. The latest turn in the controversy of her private email server comes days before the Iowa caucuses.
  • At many newspapers, the top priority these days is how best to prop up revenues. But the family that owns The Anniston Star in Alabama is quietly planning to devote the paper's profits to training new generations of reporters.
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