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A new book, The Sinatra Treasures, celebrates the life of the legendary crooner with never-before-seen photographs, music and pull-out mementos from the Sinatra Family archives. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Frank Sinatra, Jr. about his father.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday laid out a $49.6 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for significant new spending for early childhood education and efforts to combat homelessness among other areas.

Watershed, a new novel by Percival Everett, takes the reader to the sparsely populated Native American territory of the West. It is there that a young scientist has gone to map the land for water, but in the process he happens upon a local murder. Alan Cheuse has this review. (Stations: Watershed is published by Graywolf Press.)

The Chicago Board of Education needs a new slate of members when they all resigned after political squabbles about a budget shortfall. It's a huge shock for the country's fourth-largest district.

If the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion remains unchanged, what are the nationwide implications? We hear how things might change in Mississippi and California.

A Senate proposal to repeal Obamacare includes $45 billion to treat opioid addiction. But it wouldn't make up for deep cuts to Medicaid in that same bill that has funded much of that treatment.

Voters in Virginia have elected Youngkin as the next governor after years of Democratic control, according to the AP. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe conceded Wednesday morning.

President-elect Biden has reportedly choosen his secretary of state. President Trump has still not conceded the election. Plus, the U.S. recorded a million new COVID-19 cases in just six days.

The GOP is still favored to control the House. Donald Trump hasn't been the boon Democrats need. But some longtime GOP incumbents could go down, as Democrats stand to pick up a dozen or more seats.

Illinois State University plans up to 20,000 rapid coronavirus tests per week with the help of a new lab.Federal approval for the lab has yet to come. The…