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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.

From online classes to warnings against xenophobia — and at least one "COVID-cat" — here's how schools are coping with the global health crisis.

A Norwegian cross-country skier is on track to become the winningest winter Olympian ever. Johannes Klaebo is a talent the likes of which the world has never seen.

The best reads of 2018. We’ll hear picks from book critics and an independent bookseller.

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.

A demonstration is planned in support of defendants charged after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. The FBI says there's no specific threat, but security officials say they're ready no matter what.

A last-minute win over Notre Dame keeps the University of Southern California's long unbeaten streak alive. The wild ending was just one of several in a big week of college football. John Feinstein and Steve Inskeep discuss the developments.

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

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.)

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.