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Thomas Wheeler led the Justice Department's civil rights unit through a period of transition. He told lawyers he never intended to stay in the job permanently.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a wave of record requests to eight federal agencies, including any communications by Rudy Giuliani and Ivanka Trump.

Taurasi leaves her basketball career as the most decorated woman to ever play, with three WNBA titles, three NCAA titles and six Olympic gold medals to her name.

Taylor is a chart-topping British blues-rock guitarist, who was first discovered at age 16 by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. She had great success with her previous three albums, and this one bridges those together in a fusion of contemporary soul-pop with traditional blues roots. It’s coming out on June 7th on Journeyman Records, known to fans of Joe Bonamassa.

The ever-prolific Charley Crockett has released this 20-song finale to his trilogy of albums, following Lonesome Drifter and Dollar A Day, each of which were released last year (and ranked #5 and #10, respectively, in WNCW Listeners’ Top 100 of 2025.) “The Sagebrush Trilogy has always been about a man trying to find his name in this world. Lonesome Drifter was the wanderer—boots full of highway dust, chasing a song and a dollar. Dollar A Day was the rustler. A man learning what hunger will make you do. Now the Age of the Ram tells the story of the outlaw. The kind that don’t set out to be a legend, but winds up one anyway.”

She’s been on nearly 200 albums, ever since her 1965 debut and four subsequent albums with the band Mother Earth. Having been absent from the studio for roughly a decade, however, she’s back with this mix of blues-flavored Americana. She has guests on here, too: “Top of my bucket list was singing with Willie (Nelson) again. No, it was singing with Charlie (Musselwhite) on harp. No, it was singing with Marcia (Ball) and Irma (Thomas) again. Top of my bucket list was all of the above.”

Among its questions, the committee is probing any conversations Kevin McCarthy had with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack.

The federal judge, once denied a Supreme Court confirmation hearing by Republicans, faced lawmakers Monday for his nomination to lead the Justice Department.

Voting has now closed for your 2024 top releases of the year. Our team will be busy tabulating the results. We will air a track from each of the top 100 albums of the year between 9am and 6pm on Monday, December 31st, then another track from each on Tuesday, December 31st. Stay tuned!

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by Chernow and essays by Richard Russo.