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The Academy Awards are tonight and critics are predicting what will win Best Picture and who will win Best Actor and Actress. We hear about the nominees and our critic's picks.

The women's and men's NCAA basketball tournaments continue and the World Baseball Classic comes to a cinematic end.

Crude oil prices hit record highs of more than $70 a barrel. At the end of trading Tuesday, the price settled at $71.60 -- a 95-cent increase over Monday's record close. President Bush, saying he is concerned about higher gas prices, promised the government would stop any price gouging.

The band R.E.M. has released its first album in four years, Accelerate. Critics have been describing the disc as a "comeback," saying it's the band's best album in ages. Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills join Terry Gross for a conversation.

Vadym Kholodenko, 26, of Ukraine, takes home the $50,000 purse, plus three years of professional management. But, he says, the rankings don't mean that much. It's interesting for the audience, Kholodenko says, but in life it's "not so important."

The House panel probing the Capitol riot holds its first public meeting since December to consider referring two senior Trump White House officials to the Justice Department for criminal contempt.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Zachary Cohen, CNN's nation security correspondent, about people close to Donald Trump being among dozens of those who recently received grand jury subpoenas.

A jury in Manhattan has found three top executives of the National Rifle Association liable for widespread corruption at the gun rights group. This is another blow for the conservative organization.

The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held a hearing on Tuesday focused on the role of the conspiracy theory QAnon and extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Officials said Thursday that the country had nearly 1,500 new cases in a single day with 13 new deaths from COVID-19. The news came as the Kremlin extended a national "non-working week."