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'Wait Wait' for January 4, 2025: Happy New Year Edition!

NPR

Published January 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM EST

Kristen Kish attends the Critics Choice Association's Inaugural Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television at Fairmont Century Plaza on June 07, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

This week, we ring in the New Year by reminding ourselves of what made the old one so great, including interviews with Kristin Kish, Bill Cowher, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin.

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'It's the beginning': Demi Moore wins her first major acting award at the Golden Globes

Dhanika Pineda

Moore, 62, won the Golden Globe for her starring role in The Substance. She said the film is the start of a new chapter in her career: "It's just this wonderful new time of exploration and discovery."
'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study finds

Selena Simmons-Duffin

A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from Republican lawmakers in recent years.
U.S. Steel sues to salvage its sale to Japan's Nippon Steel

Scott Horsley

U.S. Steel and its would-be Japanese suitor filed twin lawsuits Monday to defend their $15 billion merger. President Biden issued an order on Friday to block the deal, citing national security concerns.

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