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The end to the heavy snowfall gives residents and municipalities a chance to begin digging out but travel bans remain in south Buffalo, Evans, Hamburg Lackawanna and Orchard Park. Heavy snow remains n South Buffalo and Buffalo schools have closed for Monday.

Felix Contreras and Jasmine Garsd of NPR's Alt.Latino podcast join NPR's Carrie Khan to talk about some of their favorite songs of 2015.

A Springsteen concert "created a civic space in which two antithetical sentiments could coexist and communicate with each other," writes A.O. Scott. The Boss turns 70 years old today.

An innovative pilot project uses emailed "heat alerts" to inform doctors and nurses of dangerous local temperatures, so they can advise patients who are most vulnerable to heat-related illness.

In Catherynne M. Valente's new novel, a washed-up glitter punk musician has to save all humanity by singing in an intergalactic version of the Eurovision Song Contest. (Also, there are murderhippos.)

Conservation groups had urged the governor to veto the bill, saying phosphogypsum would hurt water quality and put road construction crews at a higher risk of cancer.

Demonstrators continue to take to the streets in Tehran to protest last week's disputed presidential election. The opposition leader has called for another mass rally Thursday. Although many pictures of the huge crowds have been televised internationally, Iranian state-controlled TV has acted as though only pro-Ahmadinejad supporters were in the streets.

House Speaker Paul Ryan supports a bill that would allow "association health plans" to be sold nationally to small businesses. But critics say such plans tend to be skimpy and not well-regulated.

Barack Hussein Obama has been sworn into office as the 44th president of the United States. A crowd that stretched for more than 2 miles on the National Mall came to listen and watch Obama.

The humorist has expanded his podcast series into a book of essays on the historical figures (and objects, like station wagons, and empires, like Prussia) that didn't get enough love the first time.