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The New York Liberty topped the Minnesota Lynx in overtime, to win the WNBA Finals three games to two. NPR's A Martinez talks to Jesse Washington of ESPN's Andscape about the game.

Top Republicans in Congress have a plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. But to do so, they'll need to circumvent Democrats and limit defections within their own ranks.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is out from the top job at the Justice Department. President Trump announced the shakeup in a social media post.

Kyshawn Lane of Weekly Home Check and Dana K. White, author of Decluttering at the Speed of Life, share their top house cleaning hacks and tips.

During her childhood, says food writer Monica Bhide, the whistle of the pressure cooker always signaled that a comforting lentil dish would be on the dinner table. But you don't need a pressure cooker to make these protein-packed, flavorful dishes.

Craftsmen in Naples, Italy, are selling figurines of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, for Nativity scenes. Apparently they're top sellers, along with the baby Jesus and the Wise Men. Nativity artisans in Naples have a history of using politicians for creative fodder, perhaps to reach out to more light-hearted buyers. Other Nativity figurines for sale: Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni.

"Hello, dummies!" Top insult comedian Don Rickles is still as sharp as ever. At age 82, he just received his first Emmy nomination for his performance on the HBO special Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.

Host Bob Edwards talks with country music star Rodney Crowell. Crowell was just 11-years-old when he got his first gig, playing drums alongside his father in a honkey-tonk. He went on to write songs and produce albums for some of country music's top artists, including Willie Nelson and Emmy Lou Harris. The Texan's latest album is The Houston Kid. Crowell says it's his autobiography set to music.

An email thread released Wednesday is raising more questions about whether lanes were closed on the George Washington Bridge as political payback. The emails indicate that top officials in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration are involved in the closures — motivated more by politics than a traffic study, as originally claimed.

A new book called The Speeches of Barack Obama tops the best-seller list on Amazon's Japanese Web site. The book includes Obama's speeches from the 2004 Democratic National Convention and the 2008 campaign. The speeches are written in English with Japanese translations, and they're packaged with a CD. More than 400,000 copies have been sold. The publisher says speeches by U.S. presidents and presidential candidates are excellent for learning English.