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Before we reveal this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner, judges Bob Boilen and Bobby Carter share their top picks.

On this week's show: Chris Rock's Top Five, mix tapes and loved music, and what's making us happy this week.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted unanimously Tuesday to promote Deputy General Counsel André Mayes to the district's top legal job.Mayes will…

The whopping 6 feet of snow was one of the top three heaviest snowfalls in recorded history for the Buffalo region.

The Berlin Phil's Simon Rattle says the clock is ticking and the Chicago Symphony's Riccardo Muti has the flu. All the classical music world's news, collected for your pleasure. Plus: Sotheby's lets others sell violins and a tenor gripes about models.

A string of sorrow this week after four artists' deaths, tempered by one very uplifting orchestra: catch up on all the week's news that you must know. A video game composer is up for a Grammy, Steinway may move out of its longtime home and a critic points out the inherent wackiness of opera.

The dinosaur named Llukalkan aliocranianus was a predator with a menacing appearance and the ability to strike fear in its prey. Paleontologists said it roamed the Earth nearly 80 million years ago.

Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, joined a Baltimore-area mosque for Iftar, the evening meal during Ramadan which breaks each day's fast. He was the guest of a Muslim Marine vet.

Here's a list of 10 albums that deserve more year-end love than they're generally getting, a counter to an age where music has taken on an introspective function.

A missile fired by an unmanned U.S. aircraft kills a key al Qaeda leader and five other suspected terrorists in Yemen. U.S. officials confirm the strike was a planned CIA attack. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR Music critics and contributors take us from Bad Bunny's dizzying opus "Safaera" to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's gloriously raunchy "WAP."

Services that split up payments into installments are increasingly popular, especially among young and low-to-middle income shoppers. But now the FICO credit scoring company will be tracking that debt.

A new study by federal officials finds that state, local and federal health spending has steadily increased. And, the nation's health spending as a share of the economy jumped in 2009 by 1.1 points to 17.3 percent.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court enters its final week of decisions with two politically charged issues unresolved, whether to rein in political…

Three Decades after the original Top Gun, Tom Cruise returns to lead a fresh squadron of Navy fighter pilots in Top Gun: Maverick.

President Bush arrives at the G-8 summit in Germany on Wednesday with a new plan on climate change as leaders of major industrialized countries gather for three days. But a bitter debate over missile defense looms over the talks.

Governor Roy Cooper announced Thursday that over $14 million has been donated to the state-sponsored North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund since Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina earlier this fall.

http://66.225.205.104/LM20101029.mp3The second in command at the State Highway Patrol has been named to the top job there. Governor Bev Perdue appointed…

http://66.225.205.104/LM20101029.mp3The second in command at the State Highway Patrol has been named to the top job there. Governor Bev Perdue appointed…

Also: Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter has a no violence plea; the U.N. says Iran begins suspending certain nuclear enrichment work; a European space probe will "awaken"; famed Italian conductor Claudio Abbado dies; and Denver and Seattle are going to the Super Bowl.