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More than a year after Staples announced the $6.3 billion merger, a judge has blocked it, saying it would hurt competition in the office supplies industry. The companies then called off the deal.

Rescue efforts continue in the city of Tainan, where a magnitude 6.4 quake struck early Saturday. News services report two of the dead are a baby and an adult man. Some 120,000 are without power.

The economy performed better than expected in the July-September period, after making a 4.6 percent jump in the second quarter of the year.

Jacob Montgomery's apartment was destroyed last week when a tornado ripped through Washington, Ill. The Illinois Guardsman survived, but was separated from his 6-month-old pit bull named Dexter. Nine days later, something amazing happened.

Last summer, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted the first Internet Cat Video Festival. It was so popular it went viral and the show went on the road. Over the weekend, more than 6,000 people turned out at the Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival.

Federal authorities on Wednesday searched the home of former Justice official Jeff Clark, who supported Trump's voting fraud claims and features heavily in today's Jan. 6 committee hearings

Listener Sara Stasi plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's David Folkenflik.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with winner Julia Wheeler of Kansas City, M.O., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KQED listener Marcus Ewert and puzzle master Will Shortz.

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.