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Music was a buoy during the turbulent times of 2021. Here’s a sampling of some meaningful tracks.

6-month-old suffers moderate injuries, mother lightly hurt as they are caught in shock wave from blast in residential building’s parking lot

Most people don’t notice when a branch of government has a very good year. What constitutes high times at the Department of Commerce? What makes them pop the Champagne corks over at the Office of Management and Budget? But NASA

For Orthodox Jews during a yearlong agricultural sabbath, Israel pledged to lift some restrictions on produce from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian farmers in Gaza are wondering what’s taking so long. (Image credit: Fatima Shbair for NPR)

Washington and others had accused Germany of feeding global economic imbalances by hoarding savings and refusing to spend.

A husband-wife team of entrepreneurs are using a once-abandoned hydroelectric station to feed the power grid and keep their artificial-intelligence enterprise humming.

Despite health campaign and stockpiles of belatedly available COVID-19 vaccine, inoculation rates in the Hamas-run enclave remain at 27% of population

Exterminator ordered to pay compensation for using prohibited compound that killed sisters aged 1 and 4 in 2014; emergency clinic also to pay as doctor did not listen to family

From prominent South African lawmakers to religious figures, many on social media honored Archbishop Tutu as a patriot of peaceful principles who dedicated his life to combating injustice everywhere.

Political writer Tal Schneider discusses ex-premier’s case, Mansour Abbas’s comments; culture editor Jessica Steinberg reports on Israeli-produced Gyllenhaal film and new gallery