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President Obama might have had the top tweet this year, but a lot of other notable things were said and discussed on Twitter in 2012. Host Michel Martin gets a breakdown of the year's top tweets from Keli Goff of The Root and blogger Viviana Hurtado of The Wise Latina Club.

Two of the top three deadliest fires in U.S. history were in Minnesota. In response to the fires, the Minnesota forestry service was established in the early 1900s, creating the system of fire towers.

Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was sailing through until Christine Blasey Ford came forward with a sexual assault allegation. Get caught up on what led to Thursday's hearing.

The Sears Crosstown building has cast its long, art deco shadow over Midtown since 1927. Will developers find the money to transform the massive, vacant structure into a new "vertical urban village"?

There will be a renewed focus on a surging Ben Carson, while Jeb Bush needs a strong performance during the debate — which is focused on the economy — to assuage nervous donors.

Steve Inskeep talks to economist and syndicated columnist Peter Morici and Jared Bernstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about record middle-class incomes.

Following the latest Coronavirus Task Force briefing, NPR correspondents detail the White House plan to categorize counties based on their coronavirus risk and the congressional rescue bill.

After a summer that included two strong debate performances, the Massachusetts senator has seen a rise in fundraising, polls and crowds. But can she win it all?

President Biden's virtual climate summit this week reflected a key theme of his first hundred days in the White House: reassuring American allies they can once again count on the U.S.

Fierce competition to get children into the top schools has spawned an aggressive parenting culture named for a traditional-medicine treatment in which chicken blood is injected to stimulate energy.