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These albums might be strange bedfellows, but that's how we listen. This is the music that shook us up, sucked us in, commanded our respect and kept us dancing this year. Get in there.

The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format.

Artists like NBA YoungBoy, Rod Wave and a resurgent Kodak Black pulled in massive streaming numbers this year (and, at times, outran controversy) while barely registering on mainstream pop's radar.

President Biden vows to respond to deadly drone attack in Jordan. Israel accuses the main U.N. agency in Gaza of aiding Hamas. House Republicans seek to impeach the chief of Homeland Security

Biden defends how he handled classified docs after scathing special counsel report. Police in Brazil say a former president and his allies planned a coup. Ukraine's president fires his top general.

Republicans and Democrats shared the stage at this year's annual Fancy Farm political picnic in western Kentucky Saturday, with the open U.S. Senate seat top of mind and next year's gubernatorial primaries shaping up.

Performances continue and we hear from TOM RIIS who compiled and edited a book containing the complete score of In Dahomey. RIIS directs the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado and is the author of Just Before Jazz.PERFORMANCES CONTINUED.Conductor MAURICE PERESS. He specializes in reconstructing historic American concerts. Hes worked with Ellington and Bernstein, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Living With American Music: Dvorak to Duke Ellington.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . our encore presentation of our American popular song series continues, with the music of Will Marion Cook, the principal composer of the 1903 Broadway musical In Dahomey, the first Broadway show written and performed by African Americans. Join us for the next Fresh Air.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the US military's plans to evacuate American citizens from Zaire if that country's civil war reaches the capital, Kinshasa. About a hundred and fifty American troops are in Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Congo, just across the Zaire river from Kinshasa. Another two thousand are on the U-S-S Nassau, an ambphibious assault ship stationed off Zaire's coast. If an order to evacuate is given, the American forces are ready to move into Kinshasa with attack helicopters to evacuate the roughly five hundred U-S citizens there.

Militants kidnap an American and a Nepalese man in the same upscale Baghdad district from which two Americans and a Briton were seized last month. The men work for a Saudi firm that supplies U.S. forces. At least a dozen American civilians are being held or are missing in Iraq. Hear Washington Post reporter Karl Vick and NPR's Renee Montagne.

Most people have heard of top secret documents. After the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents from former President Donald Trump's residence, a less familiar security designation came to light.