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Pianist and composer David Benoit has produced an anniversary CD called 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas. He tells Ed Gordon about the project, which makes use of the fabulous music created for the beloved TV special.

Goldwax, a label which issued some of the greatest soul records ever made in Memphis, is almost completely unknown. Given the quality of what it released, it had very few hits, but its legend has lived on. Ed Ward reports on the label's impressive run from 1963 to '70.

Will Smith stormed on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock after he'd made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Smith later went on to win his first Oscar but he had overshadowed his own victory.

Fifteen states have enacted or are currently considering laws that would restrict medical treatments to more than 58,000 transgender youth.

Civil rights activists are rallying behind the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and preparing for the possibility of a rough confirmation process.

The Academic Film Archive is working with the Library of Congress to make a worldwide database of all the old educational movies it can find. And in St. Louis, in an effort to preserve these classic 16-mm movies, a group is holding monthly screenings of films like The Living Soil, which was produced by Shell Oil Company in the 1960s to extol the virtues of pesticides. Matt Sepic of member station KWMU reports.

Attorney General William Barr effectively clears the way to resume capital punishment in the federal prison system. The Justice Department says it wants to resume executions as early as December.

Carter was a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries.

William Barr's Justice Department lowered the prison sentence recommendation for Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Trump, in a move that's led to accusations of political interference.

William "Roddie" Bryan has said he was a witness. "I can tell you that if we believed he was a witness we wouldn't have arrested him," the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says.

William Evanina, who leads the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, also said Iran is trying to undermine the November election.

William Bryan told investigators that Travis McMichael uttered "f****** n*****" after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery on Feb. 23, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent said in court on Thursday.

President Trump and Attorney General William Barr opposed the legislation. The House was set to vote on it Wednesday night, but ultimately did not.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Howard Bryant talk about the U.S. Open, the NHL Playoffs and more.

Sales of puzzles are breaking records as people seek meditative ways to while away the hours at home. The pastime's not without haters, though: "even more than a chore they seem like a punishment."

The White House says it will appeal a federal court ruling ousting William Perry Pendley, who led the Bureau of Land Management for more than 400 days without Senate confirmation.

The diplomatic duel over Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange intensified with Britain and Ecuador battling over his future. Ecuador says it will give Assange asylum. For now, he's holed up in Ecuador's London embassy. Britain says it wants Assange extradited to Sweden, where he's wanted over a rape allegation.

Testing everyone for HIV and then giving them early treatment could theoretically eliminate the epidemic in South Africa. A mathematical model of this "test and treat" strategy suggest that it might be more expensive and take significantly longer than previously predicted.

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Millions of Texas residents have no water, or if they do, are required to boil it before using it. It comes after days of power outages and freezing weather across the state.