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  • Country artist George Birge saw a popular TikTok skewering the way men in his genre write music and decided to issue himself a songwriting challenge. The result? "Beer Beer, Truck Truck."
  • Apple will unveil a series of new iPhones at the much-anticipated event, including a top-tier model called the iPhone X.
  • Top seeds have fallen like timber in a forest as the men's NCAA basketball tournament heads into its second weekend.
  • One trick is a device that puts a tennis ball on top of a smartphone.
  • Eight-year suspensions were given last week for FIFA's top bosses, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. Carrie Kahn talks with author David Henry Sterry about the latest on FIFA's scandal plagued year.
  • Representatives from some of the world's top oil producing nations voted Friday to increase oil production, which could bring down the price of oil worldwide.
  • A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.
  • Jacki discusses the latest events in Bosnia with NPR's Andy Bowers in Sarajevo and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade. Today, the top UN general in the former Yugoslavia met with the Bosnian Serb military leader. They tried, but failed, to work out an arrangement for the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from Sarajevo. Meanwhile, NATO officials met in Brussels to consider whether to resume military attacks against the Serbs.
  • NPR's Kathleen Schalch has this profile of former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, who has used a strong finish in the Iowa caucuses to emerge among the top three contenders to win Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. Alexander's surge in the polls has brought a new wave of media scrutiny and questions about whether Alexander's folksy, conservative image squares with his record.
  • In announcing her run for president, Hillary Clinton said "the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top."
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