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With McCormick's victory, Republicans have expanded their Senate majority in the next Congress to 53 seats, with two races still to be called.

In the semi-final games on Monday, the Michigan Wolverines defeated Alabama's Crimson Tide in overtime, and the Washington Huskies beat the Texas Longhorns. Michigan and Washington are undefeated.

Sixty-one years ago Dwight was an astronaut candidate. Sunday, along with five others, he made the trip on a rocket owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — making him the oldest person to go to space.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

Former Senate Majority Leader and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker died on Thursday at age 88. Baker was one of the key players in Ronald Reagan's historic tax and spending cuts.

China has 199 journalists in prison and it could be in part because of the country's slowing economy. A number of journalists who were jailed in the last year were business reporters.

Israel's attack on Iran sparked the biggest jump in crude oil prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. Stocks fell sharply.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a poll that asks Americans to rate public figures, both at home and abroad.

Singer-songwriter Rita Hosking grew up in a house she says was haunted. She's written a song for the ghosts of the child who died and the grieving mother who followed him.

The former president is in Egypt to observe its first free presidential election, which begins on Wednesday.