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On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder, Steve Inskeep has a remembrance from Lennon's appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971. The late Beatle was shot and killed outside his New York apartment on December 8, 1980.

Broadcast engineer and music fan Jeremy Ruck is one of the million Americans who've died from COVID-19. His sister Holly Ruck talks about him for our series, "Songs of Remembrance."

President Bush is expected to deliver two more speeches on Iraq before his holiday break. The White House is keenly aware that declining support for the war has undercut backing for the president in general -- prompting an aggressive campaign to sell the war.

In November 2004, Frank Warren invited strangers to write their secrets on postcards and mail them to his Maryland home. More than 10,000 have arrived; 300 of the most provocative are collected in PostSecret.

House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise Thursday to extend provisions of the USA Patriot Act. But Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a sponsor of the 2001 act, tells Steve Inskeep that he doesn't approve of the deal that was struck.

Officials say "signs of life" are detected at a village buried by a landslide in the Philippines as rescue workers use high-tech search equipment. Officials fear as many as 1,300 people are buried under the mud in the village of Guinsaugon.

The music of the movies is one of Andy Trudeau's specialties. His annual look at Oscar-nominated scores begins with Alberto Iglesias' The Constant Gardener and John Williams' Memoirs of a Geisha.

A new Palestinian Parliament is sworn in, with Hamas, the militant Islamist party, asked to form a new government. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for a continued truce and peace negotiations with Israel.

As a new Palestinian parliament is sworn in, Israel says it won't deal with a Hamas-led government. But officials also wonder how to rebuff Hamas without hurting Palestinians.

Mark Englehart plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.