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The $1.95 billion Operation Warp Speed contract excludes government rights to inventions or production know-how developed in the manufacture of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) is the first woman of color to win the Oscar for best director. Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand won Best Actor and Best Actress. Nomadland received the Best Picture prize.

The 95th Academy Awards air Sunday Night on ABC. Below is the full list of nominees, with winners marked in bold.

The rising R&B star performs three songs as part of Tiny Desk's celebration of Black History Month.

Author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

"I believe in making the radio sound better," says the R&B veteran. After years spent coaching younger singers, Wright is back with the new album Betty Wright: The Movie.

Former engineer Arturo Bejar says he repeatedly raised the alarm to company execs about Instagram's harm to teens and they failed to act. Senators vow to pass a social media law this year.

A concert of new classical music for piano: solos and duets! Featuring premieres of original works by the performers.

If you love classical piano music, you will love this concert!

Heather Niemi Savage and Paul Pulsipher are performing their own original solo works along with a duet by Christopher Siu and the feature piece, Variations of Transformation, that they co-composed during the summer of 2025.

Classical music is not just a thing of the past. Is still being written! Come be a part of it!

About Heather and Paul:
Heather Niemi Savage finds herself in liminal spaces, exploring the intersection of divergences. Deeply introspective, she is inspired by literature, faith, and the natural world and draws on her broad experience in classical, jazz, musical theater, sacred and world music. Her stylistically eclectic work invites performers and audiences alike to wonder and transcend the ordinary, providing emotional release and a transformed perspective. Originally from New England and currently based in North Carolina, her work has been performed throughout the United States by ensembles such as the Arkansas Philharmonic, South Bend Symphony, Argus String Quartet, North-South Consonance, Boston New Music Initiative, and members of the Raleigh Symphony. Her work has been presented at the International Festival of Music by Women, Impulse New Music Festival, national conference of the Society of Composers, Inc, UNK New Music Festival, and various All-State Festivals. Heather has placed in the top three in several national and international competitions, including the 2020 American Prize Composition Competition (pops/light music division), the 2020 Arcady Art Song Competition, the 2021 Cantus Ensemble Competition, and the Huntsville Master Chorale 2023 Composition Competition, and the Reno Pops Orchestra 2024 Composers Showcase. Heather graduated from Appalachian State University with a MM in music composition, where she was a Tui St. George Tucker Fellow, and is now an adjunct professor. As a pianist, Heather performs regularly with choral and chamber ensembles and in intimate solo concerts. Outside of music, Heather likes to read, spend time outdoors, and practice herbalism.

Paul Pulsipher has been playing piano since he was a small child. He was classically trained for 10 years in his youth, excelled in numerous solo/ensemble contests growing up and has been playing the organ in church congregations for the past 16 years across different parts of the United States and Canada. He has lengthy experience in composition and songwriting, with many instrumental and Contemporary Christian releases self-recorded and produced. He also loves to sing, is a classical composer and arranger, guitarist, and loves jamming on drums and other percussion when he gets the chance. Growing up, he was a two-time Colorado Bandmaster Association champion with his high school marching band in 2003 and 2004 as the Pit Section Leader and sang in several church and academic choirs. He played piano, sang some lead vocals and was a songwriter in the Southern Utah University Band, Alternate Currents, served as the SUU Commercial Music Club President, won the Game Changer award with his music business at the Miller Center for Entrepreneurship Business Breakthrough, and graduated from SUU with Honors, Summa Cum Laude, member Phi Kappa Phi. He currently lives in Nashville, TN where he runs a production company and recording studio. Part of Paul's creativity in music stems from spending thousands of hours coming up with what he thought were better melodies, harmonies and bass lines than he heard from songs he listened to on CDs and the radio through his childhood and writing them down when he had the chance. He has taken that ability and turned it into one of his self-produced albums, Classically Divergent, a title which nods to his being on the Autism Spectrum.

Nicki Nicole's Tiny Desk home concert is representative of her artistry writ large, as an artist born in 2000 but with a connection to sounds and styles beyond her years.

With the midterms looming and women — especially Democratic women — already fired up, Republicans are taking a risk in continuing to back Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

House managers called for impeachment and attorneys for President Trump declared the articles of impeachment "ridiculous."

Democratic voting legislation has virtually no path to becoming law, but Senate Republicans are fighting it as the GOP still struggles over how to move forward from the 2020 election.

Addressing the fallout of a leak of classified intelligence documents and drafting legislation to avoid a default on the nation's credit limit are just a few items on Congress' to-do list.

House Democrats plan a Friday vote on another massive relief bill that has more money for states, help for the jobless and virus-testing funds. Republicans immediately called it a partisan wish list.

The president abruptly ended spending talks Wednesday after congressional Democrats rejected his demand for a $5.7 billion border wall. A partial government shutdown stretched into its 19th day.

In the post-pandemic market for maximalist entertainment, America's "capital of entertainment" has found itself at the center of a cultural revival with A-list residencies at its core.

Phoebe Zerwick has written a new book about the case of Darryl Hunt, a Winston-Salem man who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. His freedom was celebrated — but he struggled almost as much with life outside prison as he did on the inside.

After 22 years away from the Metropolitan Opera, acclaimed soprano Kathleen Battle will return for a November concert of spirituals.

London-based pollster Martin Boon tells Robert Siegel that in Scotland's upcoming referendum, the poor regions of cities are leaning toward independence while the elite are in favor of maintaining ties to England.

Endangered Florida panthers are being crowded out of their habitat in Florida. Some suggest bringing the panthers to the Ozarks, where they once lived. But Arkansas wildlife officials aren't crazy about the idea, saying the panthers would be a threat.