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Bonnie Raitt's new record, Souls Alike, is her eighteenth album — and the first on which she is credited as a producer. The intensely personal songs reflect recent events in the nine-time Grammy winner's life.

The Prairie Home Companion host is starring (a bit reluctantly) in a fictional film about his own show. Keillor talks about working with Robert Altman, Meryl Streep and other above-average Hollywood luminaries.

The Morgan Stanley investment bank agrees to pay $54 million to end a sex bias lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The firm was accused of a pattern of discrimination that denied promotions and higher salaries to women. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Jim Zarroli.

Last week, 1,700 bands converged on Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest music festival. From a Chinese woman who sings AC/DC covers to a singer whose songs are like foot rubs at the end of a long night out, the music brought out power and beauty in unexpected places.

In The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea, veteran foreign correspondent Steve LeVine writes about the high-stakes political gamesmanship over control of the rich oil resources in that region.

The Icelandic yogurt company Siggi wants someone to run the business' social media channels and enjoy the simple life.

In 2003, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Clint Douglas was deployed to Afghanistan. He found that the complications of fighting the Taliban were magnified by odd interactions with local leaders.

The cost of war in Iraq reaches beyond the bullets and bombs, says Linda Bilmes, co-author (with Joseph Stiglitz) of the new book, The Three Trillion Dollar War. They join Fresh Air to talk about potential long-term expenses from the war.

He went from performing in an empty San Francisco coffee house to hosting the Oscars. In his memoir Born Standing Up, out now in paperback, comedian Steve Martin talks about his early days as a stand-up comic — and why he quit.

You have a sense of her work life — so now hear flutist Claire Chase and her ICE friends play music by an exciting American composer, Arlene Sierra.

She offers practical advice to get you cooking and eating more at home — which can benefit both your wallet and your waistline.

On the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, we look at his final symphony: No. 41 in C Major, or the Jupiter Symphony. Mozart wrote it just three years before his death in 1791.

Iraq war costs reach beyond the tab for bullets and bombs, says Joseph Stiglitz, co-author (with Linda Bilmes) of the new book The Three Trillion Dollar War. They join Fresh Air to talk about potential long-term expenses from the war.

The Bush administration is taking steps toward rebuilding relations with a country it once said was part of an "axis of evil." President Bush announced Thursday that the United States is lifting some trade sanctions against North Korea and removing it from a list of countries that the U.S. considers state sponsors of terrorism.

In October, millions of Americans will have to squeeze more money out of their budget to make payments on those loans.

The stories of those refugees crossing the border from Sudan to Chad, tell of horror, destruction and non stop fighting, in a dreadful deja vu of Darfur's genocidal past.

The pill transformed lives, but when it comes to contraceptive options, it's no longer the end-all, be-all.

I'm a real person and I love this candidate, I swear!

Last month, Microsoft announced a Chinese state-sponsored hack on government agency data, as well as hundreds of companies.

The Tennessee Aquarium says sensors detect an electric eel's little jolts of electricity, which then get transferred to the lights on a tree.

An Illinois woman was forced to give birth in her truck, mere minutes after being discharged from an Indiana hospital.

Reading and math scores are down to their lowest levels in more than 20 years.

Portions of the western Florida Panhandle are under a tropical storm warning as effects could be felt as early as Wednesday.

The short-term spending bill avoids a partial government shutdown, but other major issues, such as suspending the debt limit, remain unresolved.

Estimated insured losses from Hurricane Irma have topped $6.55 billion, with the number of claims approaching 866,000, according to information released…