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  • Southern-born singer-songwriter Chan Marshall is no stranger to covers. Under the Cat Power moniker, Marshall has released eight albums, two of them collections in which she reworks the classics. The latest is Jukebox. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.
  • "Millions of Americans — our neighbors, friends, family members — are still looking for jobs," the president says in his administration's annual report to Congress.
  • Investigators still are looking into what caused a fatal helicopter crash on the North Slope last week. The Alaska Department of Corrections has taken in 40 people who were detained outside of the state by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  • The Alaska Board of Game is proposing a new version of a program after a superior court judge tried to do away with a program that kills bears in order to help caribou hunters. Unalaskans are losing immediate access to air ambulance services for at least the next few months.
  • The American Civil Liberties union has launched an online tool to report and track increased immigration enforcement by local and federal agencies across the state. Firefighters recently scrambled to attack several new lightning-sparked wildfires burning around the eastern Interior.
  • Celebrating Thanksgiving abroad? Tell us how you celebrate.
  • An estimate from the Wisconsin Legislature's nonpartisan budget office found that the state wouldn't break even on incentives for the Taiwanese tech company until 2043.
  • The tradition goes back to the 19th century, when the U.S. was largely an agrarian, Christian society. People needed a day to travel by horse and buggy to vote and November was after the fall harvest.
  • Given a choice, bonobos tend to prefer people who act like jerks and dominate. That's very different than humans, who even as infants consistently prefer people who are cooperative and not mean.
  • Thirty-one thousand Stop & Shop workers are striking in New England over proposed changes to wages and benefits. Eight days in, the strike has shuttered some stores and slowed business at others.
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