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Ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick received Amnesty's top human rights award for his opposition to racial injustice. His "take a knee" campaign during the national anthem likely cost him his job.

President Biden is pushing Congress to pour another $1.9 trillion into the COVID-ravaged economy. In the meantime, his top economic adviser says, he plans to bump up food stamp benefits.

Retired Republican political consultant ED ROLLINS. He's just written a book chronicling his 30 years in American politics, "Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics" (with Tom DeFrank, published by Broadway Books). ROLLINS began his political life a Democrat, working for Bobby Kennedy's campaign in 1968. After an experience at a violent demonstration, though, he became a Republican and worked his way up to become President Reagan's top political advisor. He managed the land-slide Reagan re-election. He also chaired Jack Kemp's unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid and for a short stint managed Ross Perot 1992 independent presidential campaign. Controversial for his outspoken and rough manner, ROLLINS is most recently remembered for inadvertently revealing the supposed pay-offs given to black ministers so they would surpress black voter turnout in the 1993 gubernatorial campaign of Christine Todd Whitman. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Chen's showing at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing clenches a season-best international score and helps put U.S. figure skating on top in the team event.

The coalition did not name the person but identified him as one of the top leaders of the extremist group's Syria branch.

Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll. Hear an interview and performance from Studio 4A.

Are you top notch at code-cracking? If not, listen closely to this week's guest, a former C.I.A. agent, for tips on how to stay mysterious. We quiz his intelligence about fellow spy James Bond.

Bieber's current single, "Baby," from his chart-topping album My World 2.0, is a slickly peppy bit of pop-soul that wears its freshly broken heart on its sleeve. Along the way, it neatly accomplishes the trick of tugging at the sympathies of Bieber's most besotted fans.

Carol Jantsch, 21, soon will be the Philadelphia Orchestra's youngest member, and the first woman to be a principal tuba player in a top U.S. orchestra.

Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the fiddlehead fern. It looks like the scrolled top of a violin and tastes a little like asparagus.