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The list of nominees for the 80th Academy Awards are announced. No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood both earn eight nominations, leading the field.

Mark Everson, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, discusses the popularity of electronic filing. He also provides tips on who among us is most likely to be audited and offers options for people who still haven't filed.

Recent polls show that health care concerns and associated economic anxiety are approaching the war in terms of importance as a campaign issue. What positions are the presidential candidates staking out?

Barbara Bodine, the U.S. official assigned to govern central Iraq, will leave her post and return to the United States to take a position at the State Department. The move comes just days after the top civilian administrator in Iraq, retired Gen. Jay Garner, is replaced by L. Paul Bremer, a longtime State Department official. Bodine and Garner have been criticized for being slow to restore services and form an interim government. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

Top leaders in Kandahar province in Afghanistan have been assassinated two days before the country votes in parliamentary elections. The top U.S. military commander escaped injury. The Taliban have claimed responsibility in the attack.

Former US Capitol Police officer Tarik "T.K." Johnson spoke to NPR's Leila Fadel about his experience of protecting fellow officers and Congress members from rioters on January 6, 2021.

NPR's Melissa Block reflects on the results of an annual survey about what most scares Americans. The nation's health care system, pollution and another world war rank in the top 10.

Also: The Texas church where a mass shooting occurred last Sunday will be demolished; Puerto Rico loses most of its power again; and pigeon racing is popular in Cuba.

Also: Kenya's Supreme Court overturns the country's presidential election; thousands of Muslims are trying to flee Myanmar; and a North Carolina group is planning a "Bigfoot" festival.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a wide-ranging press conference today in Berlin with the German and foreign press. On the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, she seemed to welcome that the two met.