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Neil Portnow (left), president and CEO of The Recording Academy, talks with Lee Thomas Miller, head of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, at a music licensing hearing in 2014. Paul Morigi/WireImage for NARAS hide caption
Business Incubator Taps Into Muslim-Americans' Entrepreneurial Spirit
A man walks out of a polling station in St. Leonard's Church on Thursday in Loftus, England. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images hide caption
Gene DeAnna is curator of the National Jukebox project, which is an online collection of more than 10,000 pre-1925 recordings. Brian Naylor/NPR hide caption
A Long Way From Wax Cylinders, Library Of Congress Slowly Joins The Digital Age
The remains of an inflatable boat that passed illegally from the coast of Turkey rest in October 2014 on the shore 10 miles from Mytilene, Greece. Thirty-four immigrants from Syria, among them one woman and three children, made a dangerous night journey Sept. 26. Orestis Panagiotou/EPA/LANDOV hide caption
At Slush Asia, a new tech festival held in Tokyo in late April, the scene and the energy resembled a small-scale South by Southwest Interactive. Elise Hu/NPR hide caption
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Neil Portnow (left), president and CEO of The Recording Academy, talks with Lee Thomas Miller, head of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, at a music licensing hearing in 2014. Paul Morigi/WireImage for NARAS hide caption
Colorado Water Plan Aims To Head Off Predicted Shortages Down The Road
PREPA's Central Palo Seco power station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The utility's bondholders want to raise rates. That's a challenge when the median income is about half that of Mississippi, yet the U.S. territory's energy costs are among the highest in the nation. Alvin Baez-Hernandez/Reuters/Landov hide caption
Power Problems: Puerto Rico's Electric Utility Faces Crippling Debt
Tom Brady speaks during a press conference in January to address the underinflation of footballs used in the AFC championship game. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images hide caption
NFL Issues Report On Patriots' Deflategate, Says Brady Probably Knew
Brig. Gen. Akram Samme coordinates his men at Camp Eagle in the Shah Joy district of Zabul province in southern Afghanistan. He is a commander in the major operation against the Taliban that's currently under way. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
Ann Allen (right) and Marie Birsic (left) take part in a demonstration to prevent the closure of Lakewood Hospital on Cleveland's West Side. Birsic says the neighborhood will "go down into a ghost town" once the hospital is turned into an outpatient center. Sarah Jane Tribble/WCPN hide caption
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