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Nick Spitzer reviews the latest CD from Johnny Cash. It's called "Unchained" and features Cash at his most rocking ever. (STATIONS: "Unchained" is on the American Recordings label, catalog number 9-43097-2) (6:00) ((ST

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on a congressional race in Alabama pitting a longtime Democratic state senator against a Republican businessman who's never held elected office. (6:00) [outcue: "... affecting the balance of power in the House next year. I'm Peter Kenyon reporting."

After a year when NASDAQ tech stocks finished off nearly 40 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 6.2 percent, economic advisor Owen Ullman looks ahead.

Scott Simon talks with Librarian Dolores Schuller about Thomas Drey, the retired school teacher who left an estate of $6.8 million to the business branch of the Boston Public Library. It's the library's largest donation from an individual.

Dangerfield died Tuesday at the age of 82. He recently published a book about his life, Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me. This interview was originally broadcast on July 6, 2004.

Was 2023 the year of the strike? Hard to say, given that only 6% of private sector workers were unionized in 2022.

The administration says 940,000 people signed up in February for a total enrollment of 4.2 million. The White House is hoping for 6 million by the end of this month.

Grocery shelves are sagging with every kind of beer imaginable, in taste and appearance. With the help of beer expert Michael Jackson, Michele Norris and Robert Siegel take stock — and taste — of some of the world's finest (and most expensive) beers.

Rhodes was convicted by a federal jury of sedition conspiracy in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. President Trump pardoned him on Monday.

2 & 3: Standup comic RICHARD LEWIS. In his act, Lewis portrays a spastic, tortured, self-deprecating man living a life of unrelieved pain. He says of his comedy that after he's finished his act "people throw prescription drugs and the names of their therapists instead of roses. I'm the wreck they can't be." Lewis is in Mel Brook's latest film "Men in Tights" and stars in a new TV series on Fox with Don Rickles. (REBROADCAST FROM 6-16-88). Film director and comedian, ROBERT TOWNSEND. His first film, "Hollywood Shuffle" took a satiric look at the roles offered to blacks in Hollywood, and established Townsend --with Spike Lee and others-- as a new group of talented black filmmakers who won industry acceptance after making independent films. His new film is "Meteor Man". (REBROADCAST FROM 6

Prices in 20 major cities were up 4.3 percent in October, vs. October 2011. Combined with other recent reports on construction and sales, that's another sign the housing sector is on the mend.

Federal agents say most arrested were criminals. But others were not, including a teenager without a criminal record, who'd been in the country without documentation since he was 6.

Some Floridians saw overall prices creep up last month. Consumer inflation in the Tampa region was up 2-point-6 percent in May compared to a year ago. That is a faster increase in prices than in March.

In 2013, Chicago will have the most expensive parking meters in North America. The rate to park in the heart of downtown will jump 75 cents an hour — up to $6.50 an hour.

The 17.6 carat stone is described as the "largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue gem" to go up for auction. And a Rolex worn by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now sold for close to $5 million.

The 17.6 carat stone is described as the "largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue gem" to go up for auction. And a Rolex worn by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now sold for close to $5 million.

Can you call the events of Jan. 6 an insurgency? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling what he thinks based on his experiences in Iraq.

In a statement shared with WLRN and on social media, board member Adam Cervera cited “operational failures” under Paul’s leadership. That includes a $2.6 million office lease the district abruptly terminated, resulting in a lawsuit.

The price of eggs is almost 65% cheaper than it was in March of last year when it hit an all-time high of $6.23 a dozen. But behind the scenes, executives at America’s three largest egg producers were secretly colluding to hike the market price for eggs, according to the Justice Department.

Tribune Publishing secretly started to pay more than $2.5 million to a fired news executive to settle a lawsuit. It sought to keep a slur by controlling owner Michael Ferro from becoming public.