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  • Donald Trump drew more working-class voters to the GOP than any president since Ronald Reagan. Now Republicans are trying to maintain that Trump appeal without Trump on the ballot in 2022.
  • The Nats were initially handcuffed by Houston starter Zack Greinke, who gave up only two hits in six innings. Washington scored all six runs in the last three innings.
  • Snapchat and Facebook's early fundraising efforts have nothing on presidential campaigns, a new report finds.
  • The automaker announced Thursday that it earned its largest profit ever in 2011 — $7.6 billion — citing strong sales in the U.S. and China. The company nearly collapsed two years ago and needed a bailout by the U.S. government, which still owns about 26 percent of the company.
  • Las Vegas is set to claim the title of city with the largest Ferris wheel, but not for long. New York City plans for a taller wheel, and rumors swirl that Dubai may top even that. Host Scott Simon talks to John Russick, director of Curatorial Affairs at the Chicago History Museum, about the first ever Ferris wheel, which debuted at the 1893 World Fair in Chicago.
  • Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.
  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently fired the city's police superintendent. Now, residents will get to have a say about who should lead the country's second-largest police department.
  • NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist.
  • Nothing says "Happy Holidays" better than 3-D goggles. Or perhaps an inflatable wetsuit for big-wave surfing. Those are two of the top gadgets of the year, according to Popular Science magazine's "100 Best Innovations" issue. To tell us a little more about some of those innovations, Editor-In-Chief Mark Jannot joins host Scott Simon.
  • When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.
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