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A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur.

The IRS is cutting more than 6,000 jobs this week, as part of the Trump administration's downsizing of the overall federal workforce. The job cuts at the IRS come in the middle of the tax-filing season.

By Joyce Kryszakhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wbfo/local-wbfo-978350.mp3Buffalo, NY – The Grammy award-winning band the Carolina…

The NEA Jazz Master died Tuesday from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 79.

Typhoon Noru blew out of the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving five rescuers dead, causing floods and power outages and forcing officials to suspend classes and government work.

Seven Nations is a rock band with an unusual pedigree: based in Florida, schooled in traditional Celtic music traditions, but with amps that go to 11. The five members of the band recently joined NPR's Liane Hansen in Studio 4A for a performance chat -- watch a video of the group performing their song "Twelve."

Ten years ago, Hanson's "MMMBop" was a massive hit among teenage girls. But unlike most "boy bands," the trio wrote its own songs and still does. The Hanson brothers are in their 20s now, they run their own label, and they just released a new CD, The Walk.

Slavic Soul Party is a New York brass band that takes inspiration from Balkan and gypsy music, but also funk and New Orleans traditions. Its members play with punk-rock energy and have won fans all across the country. Their fifth album, Taketron, is just out, and it's a brass-band fusion tour de force.

We hear from people in Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle and Lancaster, Pa., about their reaction to the Jan. 6 hearings. There have been eight hearings so far.

A 32-page indictment by federal prosecutors charges the six with economic espionage and trade secret theft. They are accused of stealing wireless technology from a pair of U.S. companies.