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NPR's Scott Simon speak to Nahid Siamdoust, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, about the role of rap in protests and political dissent in Iran.

NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest is back.

The Tiny Desk Contest is NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist.

San Francisco merchants and tenants want the city’s largest landlord, Veritas Investments, to give $3.6 million from its federal small business loan to true small businesses, they wrote in an open letter Monday. Veritas, which operates 256 properties in San Francisco, is not a small business and therefore does not deserve the federal loan they … Continue reading Local Businesses Ask SF’s Largest Landlord to Donate $3.6m from Small Business Loan →

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Nicole Auerbach, senior writer for The Athletic, about the merger created between three conferences in college football to keep up with the SEC.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with TNT Sports sideline reporter and bracketology expert Andy Katz about final four predictions, championship X-factors and indelible moments from this year's bracket.

China may have just dislodged the U.S. from a position its held for decades — the world's top trading nation. The latest Chinese figures put the value of its overall trade at $4.6 trillion last year. The U.S. will release its own 2013 data next month.

NPR's favorite visual stories of the year include political news events, a solar eclipse, and hurricanes along with stories about education, music and comics.

In "Beyond the Wall," beardy bros go on a wight-hunt and struggle to get to know one another. Luckily, in this penultimate episode of Season 7, they find the perfect ice-breaker.

Members of Congress mark the attack on the U.S. Capitol a year ago. Experts monitoring extremist worry the U.S. is in a more dangerous place than a year ago. Examining the CDC's messaging problems.