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Robert Siegel takes up a listener's query about a recent story on the Major League Dreidel Championship. "What's a dreidel?" Thankfully, he knows the answer.

The top-ranked Swiatek has won seven titles in 2022, the most by a woman since Serena Williams in 2014.

Troubled mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae has announced a management shakeup, but its chief executive will keep his job. Fannie Mae has been struggling to persuade investors that it has the capital to keep operating and avoid a government bailout.

When the votes came in for Prospect magazine's list of the top 100 public intellectuals, at No. 1 was Turkish Sufi cleric Fethullah Gulen. Prospect Magazine editor Tom Nuttall says Gulen's global network of supporters propelled him to the top spot.

Members of the Jan. 6 committee are pursuing additional witnesses and say they are receiving a lot of new evidence. Their public hearings are now going to extend into July.

When former President Bill Clinton met with George W. Bush before leaving office, he told his successor that Osama bin Laden, the Middle East and North Korea posed more of a threat to U.S. national security than Iraq, Clinton says. In the first part of a two-part interview, Clinton also tells NPR's Juan Williams that bin Laden dominated intelligence discussions at the White House.

The New York Theatre Workshop's production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers examines the gray area between the rights of the press to publish and those of the government to protect its secrets.

Usually around this time, Hollywood is talking about how to keep its box office momentum going. This year, January was so lackluster that studios had to jump-start moviegoing from scratch.

It's one year after the first round of President Obama's education-reform program, Race to the Top. Cynthia Gordy of The Root examines the program's progress, and argues that while success for the program looks unclear, the participants still believe their plans are worth a try.

The two diplomats will meet for the first time in the aftermath of the balloon crisis earlier this month.