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NPR's Music Desk share their favorites from 2023 Tiny Desk Concerts.

Fox News stars, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, privately derided then-President Donald Trump's assertion he'd been cheated of victory in 2020, even as the network amplified such claims.

Here’s to a new way of looking at brunch as a way of celebrating the new season, with three new spring-focused recipes for any lazy weekend morning.

A few of these global soups have unusual ingredients: A chicken that hasn't yet sung, waterleaf with dew drops, a zebu organ. Don't worry, we've got subs. And prep time for some is as short as 1 hour.

In a straight party line vote the Senate Banking Committee today approved a measure to indefinitely extend the Whitewater committee. NPR'S Jon Greenberg reports Democrats argued that the further into this election year the committee hearings go, the greater the appearance of political motives. In vain, Democrats also appealed to Republicans' sense of history and fairness by pointing out that when Republicans asked for an early end date on the Iran/Contra investigation, Democrats agreed. Today, though, Republicans said too many questions remain and too many witnesses are unavailable until the conclusion of the McDougal-Tucker trial by the Independent Counsel.

In the second report on the current Supreme Court, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on a number of decisions the Supreme Court reached this term. The justices were divided along ideological lines, with the conservative block dominating for most of the decisions. Many of the rulings though, concerned limiting federal power, striking down more federal laws than upheld. The decisions upheld tended to be earlier liberal Supreme Court rulings, such as when they reaffirmed Miranda.

- Daniel talks with clinical psychologist Dr.Sherry Turkle about how the Internet has transformed the way people define themselves. Because people are able to take on code names and virtual personas on-line, they are able to take on roles they may have never explored before. Although some people may argue that this is unhealthy, Dr.Turkle insists that it can actually be therapeutic. Her new book on the subject is called "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet" (Simon & Schuster).

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green (fred-REE-kah MATH-yooz GREEN) works at home, but she misses the office -- the daily flow of human interaction among colleagues. So she has joined an on-line group where they regularly enjoy jokes, recipes, memories, and dreams: the skin contact of cyberspace. It isn't like sharing stories with a buddy over the coffeemaker, she says, But it's not like sitting in rush hour traffic, either.

, best known for their kitchen appliances and outdoor gas grills. The company seems to be on the road to recovery thanks to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, a flamboyant chief executive known for rescuing ailing corporations. Sunbeam plans to cut its workforce in half, from twelve down to six thousand, and drop most of its ancillary product line.

Linda speaks with White House Correspondent Mara Liasson about the coming year for the White House...she says the President will not be seeking to pass huge legislative packages (like health care..) as he did in his first administration--and he faces many investigations into everything from Whitewater to campaign finance--but one new tool he will have in his second term will be the line item veto.