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School spirit at Penn State was dealt another blow Saturday when it lost its last home game of the football season to Nebraska. The loss comes just days after the firing of the university's iconic head coach Joe Paterno and the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on 40 counts of abusing young boys. NPR's Jeff Brady reports on the game's aftermath.

Robert traveled to the 6th Congressional District in Southern Ohio ...site of a hotly contested race between an incumbent Freshman Republican, Frank Cremeans, and Ted Strickland, who held the seat from 1992 to 1994. The balance of the House of Representatives could be at stake in next Tuesday's election. This race is widely regarded as a bellwether race in a bellwether state for determining which party will control the next Congress.

Efforts to pass other federal voting rights legislation have stalled in the closely divided Senate, as Democrats try to counter voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states.

Tony Podesta, brother of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, blamed "right-wing media" for his decision to leave his namesake firm. The firm assisted Paul Manafort's work in Ukraine.

Kim Yong Nam, the president of the Supreme People's Assembly, could meet one-on-one with South Korean President Moon Jae-in amid a hiatus in hostilities between the bitter rivals.

Matthew Dear's "Deserter" sounds like a gem plucked from a compilation of early-'80s European synth-pop. His emotionless voice serves Dear's chilly new-wave perfectly, just as the song serves as an ideal introduction to his new album's icy pop excellence.

The NCAA basketball tournaments can be onslaught of unfamiliar names and terms enough to make any casual viewer nervous. We're here to help. (Except for NET. We can't explain NET.)

Republican lawmakers want equal party representation on the panel to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Even as it loses its chief executive, the CIA's recently retired third-ranking official is under investigation for possible improper relations with a defense contractor, says Newsweek magazine correspondent Michael Isikoff. Federal investigators are investigating CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo.

Ann Powers' favorite songs and albums of the year combined hooks, innovation, back story and individuality.