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President Obama called the unnamed man "one of the most important intelligence agents that the United States has ever had in Cuba." The agent spent nearly two decades in a Cuban prison.

Also: rodeo clown banned after making Obama insult; Israel shoots down a rocket headed for Eilat; a wildfire scorches more than 90,000 acres in Idaho; a baseball fan falls to his death in Atlanta; and Detroit changes billboards advertising the wrong election date.

Also: Egypt's President Morsi calls for staged parliamentary elections; police in India failed to initially search for three little sisters, discovered raped and murdered; the former mayor of notorious Bell, Calif., claims he's uneducated; and Forbes ranks Detroit as the most miserable U.S. city.

Also: Long Island power company chief resigning over Superstorm Sandy response; House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to announce decision on her political future; the African Union wants to invade Mali with the U.N.'s permission to force out militants; and U.N. group says contraception a human right

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The most popular dog names of 2018 say a lot about our world and what we're watching. Increasingly, dogs are getting human names, but is that really a surprise since they're part of the family?

Twenty-two months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, dissension and fatigue are evident among Kyiv's most senior officials. The war has reached a stalemate.

New Hampshire's largest city saw record breaking numbers in both drug fatalities and overdoses. So this crisis remains the number one issue for many voters heading to the polls for local elections.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with New York Times reporter Eric Lipton about the number of industry executives and lobbyists running cabinet agencies in the Trump administration.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Xavier Beccera as his HHS secretary. And amid pressure for diversity in his Cabinet, NAACP leaders are expected to meet with Biden on Tuesday.