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Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried about what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

Storyteller Mitch Myers recounts the tale of Duke Ellington's performance at the Newport Jazz festival in 1956. It's a story of a journeyman saxophone player, Paul Gonsalves, and how his playing that night would become legend. (6:00) Music is from the CD Ellington at Newport on the Columbia Jazz label. The tune is called Diminuendo/Crescendo in Blue.

The jazz icon turns 85 on Dec. 6. He'll celebrate with a concert in London where he will be joined by the London Symphony. There are several recent collections of his work: The Dave Brubeck Collection, which reissues five of his classic out-of-print LPs, and Dave Brubeck: Time Signature: A Career Retrospective.

A team of British climbers used xenon gas to decrease the 6 to 8 weeks usually needed to acclimate to the thin air on the world's highest mountain.

Watch the live ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. CT.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is considered one of baseball's top strategists — and a likely resident of baseball's Hall of Fame. Pulitzer-winning author Buzz Bissinger's new book is about three games La Russa managed in a tense pennant race.

One hundred years ago today, a hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing at least 6,000 people on the island, and another 4 to 6,000 on the mainland.

The Jan. 6 committee releases its final report. A major storm threatens holiday travel.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reached 6.66% on average Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked executive privilege as attempts to block testimony about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.