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After months of delays due to sabotage and looting at oil installations, Iraq is exporting oil again -- more than two million barrels of crude each day, worth about $1 billion a month. NPR's Ivan Watson reports.

Commentator David Greenberger has a personal appreciation of the music of Ella Johnson. With her brother Buddy Johnson, a bandleader, the singer was a regular fixture on the New York City club circuit in the 1940s and 1950s. She had many popular hits, including "Since I Fell for You," "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball?" and "When My Man Comes Home." Johnson died last month at age 86.

NASA plans to test an aircraft this weekend designed to fly seven times the speed of sound, using an innovative engine called a "scramjet." The test is part of an effort to develop missiles that can reach any target on Earth within two hours, and spacecraft that can transport people and cargo more cheaply. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on new evidence that that there was once a pool of liquid, salty water on Mars. The finding suggests the planet could have supported life.

He calls his latest project a "musical novel." It's a new CD, Greendale, a 10-song cycle with his band Crazy Horse, set in a fictional California seaside town. He also shot a feature film version on Super8, which made the film festival circuit and will be in wider distribution in April.

Legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan would have been 80 years old Saturday if she had not died in 1990 of lung cancer. Reporter Allison Keyes has a tribute to the incomparable musician nicknamed "The Divine One."

Four leading Internet service providers announce they are filing civil lawsuits against hundreds of people, accusing them of sending unsolicited e-mails, known as "spam." The suits cite the CAN-SPAM Act passed last year. The companies filing the suits are EarthLink, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Intellectual property laws are intended to protect creativity. Lawrence Lessig says it's doing the opposite. Lessig's new book argues that the Internet age calls for a new way of deciding who can own an idea.

Many of our musical favorites released best-of-the-year albums, including Kendrick Lamar, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Fleet Foxes, Strand of Oaks, Big Thief, The War On Drugs, and St. Vincent.

Devon's debut album, Black Hole Rainbow, was one of our favorites of 2020. Last year, he embarked on an ambitious project: a song-for-song cover of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On.