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Today, we celebrate the birthday of marching band composer John Philip Sousa. (And it's host Robin Young's birthday too!)

Members of the British pop band Gomez pride themselves on the collaborative way they create songs. Music critic Christian Bordal of member station KCRW has a review of the band's new album, How We Operate.

Coming in below expectations, the U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in August. Still, the survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate dipped a tenth of a percent.

The state House and Senate approved identical versions of the proposed Revenue Stabilization law on Monday, with final votes in each chamber expected on Tuesday.

The company behind the uber-viral water bottles is recommending customers affected by the recall reach out for a replacement part.

In texts released by House Democrats, a career diplomat worries that Washington is tying military aid and a White House visit for the president of Ukraine to an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden.

The last show of the pop icon's "Celebration" retrospective tour brought over a million and a half fans to Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach on Saturday night.

Each week, NPR's Stephen Thompson brings us a new song to liven up our playlists. This week he brings us Welsh band Los Campesinos! and the band's new song, "What Death Leaves Behind."

David Greenberger reviews the new CD from the Chicago band The Pinetop Seven -- the CD is called Bringing Home the Last Great Strike. {The Pinetop Seven has been around for five years, and has had several changes in its line-up since then. But the core sound of the band -- quirky instrumentation, drawn on varied musical traditions -- remains the same, thanks to Darren Richard, who has written all the songs, and sings them. The band's music is full of juxtepositions -- intimate and vast, richly layered and stark -- and Greenberger tells us the sound is timeless and utterly modern at once.} (3:00) Bringing Home the Last Great Strike, by The Pinetop Seven, is on Truckstop Records, from Chicago. The band's Web site is http://www.pinetopseven.com.

Climate change is making powerful hurricanes more common. That may require adding a new official designation for the more intense storms, a new study suggests.