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WUOT News provides the results of the 2024 general election updates on the local, state and federal level. Plus, Knoxville voters vote against an amendment that would make all city council seats 'at-large'.

TDEC and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers order CSX to stop mining rock from the Nolichucky River for railroad repairs. Plus, a special education teacher employed at Jefferson County Schools was arrested and charged for allegedly striking a 7-year-old student in the head.

New musical Knoxville opens at the Clarence Brown Theatre, Knox County school board approves first-ever AI policy, and more. Correction: An earlier version of this podcast incorrectly addressed Josh Rhodes, the director and choreographer of 'Knoxville', as James Rhodes.

Bob Clark plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

President Obama has arrived in Berlin, his first visit to the German capital since his election in 2008. The visit falls in the same month that John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech a half century ago. Can the current president expect the same the kind of reception? Germans have been especially critical of the National Security Agency's recently revealed data gathering from international phone and Internet traffic, given the bitter history of Stasi spying on the citizens of East Germany not so long ago.

Consumer Reports ranked the Toyota Prius the 2010 Green Car of the Year despite a recall from the world's No. 1 automaker. David Champion, senior director for Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center, discusses the process behind the rankings.

Dreamgirls is nominated for eight Academy Awards, but not for Best Picture. Babel, which is among five nominees for the top film, earns seven nominations.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who directed the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee to negotiate the structure of the commission, now says he will vote against the deal.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.