Jan. 6 anniversary, TikTok trial, yacht rock

A supporter of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump holds flags and banners near the U.S. Capitol, on the day of a joint session of Congress to certify Donald Trump's election, as a winter storm arrived, in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2025.

A supporter of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump holds flags and banners near the U.S. Capitol, on the day of a joint session of Congress to certify Donald Trump's election, as a winter storm arrived, in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2025. Photo credit: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.

Four years after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win, President-elect Trump was certified on another January 6 day.

The Supreme Court hears a challenge on Friday to a federal law that will ban TikTok if the Chinese parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the popular social media app.

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock. 

The newly expanded college football playoffs were supposed to make games more competitive. How come all the top-seeded teams crashed out?

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Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Stephen Gregory, Angie Perrin, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Zeke Reed, Nihar Patel