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Louisville, Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga are the No. 1 seeds in the four regions of the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship. Now it's time to start picking your winners if you're a college basketball fan.

The recent death by suicide of a JMU student-athlete was not the first such death on campus this year… Harrisonburg’s vice-mayor says he will not seek re-election… We have our weekly Virginia politics review, dominated this week of course by the debate over abortion access….

Air quality in our part of Virginia has worsened into the unhealthy range due to the wildfire smoke from Canada, and that can cause health problems for many… Attorneys representing abortion providers in Virginia and two other states ask a federal judge in Charlottesville to shield them from new restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone… As air quality tanks, the state’s air pollution control board removes Virginia from RGGI, and Jeff Schapiro joins us for some analysis….

Bob Clark plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

Russia says its air defenses intercepted at least 24 Ukrainian drones a day after it launched its largest drone strike on the Ukrainian capital of the war.

Russians face a confusing patchwork of online restrictions as the Kremlin cracks down on the free flow of information on social media.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.