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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks hockey with Ben Gotz from the Las Vegas Review Journal after the Vegas Golden Knights win their first NHL Championship.

Oklahoma's highest court rejected a reparations lawsuit brought by Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle, who lived through the racist attack over 100 years ago.

Belgian politician Ben Weyts was on a mission to promote cycling. He biked to a news conference where he announced an investment in bike lanes. A half hour later, his bike was gone.

A new opera with libretto by Ben Katchor. Katchor is the creator of the comic strip, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Like the strip, the opera springs from Katchor's fascination with the urban landscape - specifically, two different buildings and their very different inhabitants. The work is being performed by musicians from the New York new music collective called Bang on a Can, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, this weekend. Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR in Amherst, has the story.

The Federal Reserve's response to the crisis in the housing market was Chairman Ben Bernanke's biggest move since he took office. It comes in a week of publicity about his predecessor Alan Greenspan. But the real pressure stemmed from an economy at risk and the lives of consumers disrupted.

Along with the news about the Gen. David Petreus scandal, we've been hearing about lavish social events given in the Tampa, Fla., area. A lot of military brass from MacDill Air Force Base, where U.S. Central Command is headquartered, go to these events. Linda Wertheimer talks to Ben Montgomery, a reporter with the Tampa Bay Times, about how the scandal is playing out around Tampa.

On Saturday, Cambodian-Americans in Southern California are celebrating their new year festival with cultural dances, day-long picnics and visits to local Buddhist temples. But one group is also using the occasion to educate a new generation about the Khmer Rouge genocide.

In NPR Ed's latest Long Listen, we explore innovative schools that tap into the power of student-directed learning.

Wildfires that spread quickly in Northern California meant that hospitals had to evacuate on the fly. One woman in the middle of childbirth tells her story.

The Army's decision to look for an alternative route for the Dakota Access Pipeline comes with less than two months left in the current administration.