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You just can't stick a modern mouthpiece on an antique saxophone and get the right sound. The answer could be in the lab.

Employers added 223,000 jobs in May as hiring showed a healthy pickup from the prior month. President Trump created controversy by tweeting beforehand that he looked forward to the report coming out.

Poor Will’s Almanack for the sixth week of Deep Summer, the second week of the Tomato and Sweet Corn Moon. It is the second week of the Sun in Leo.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about his stance on the president's national emergency declaration and funding for border security.

With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?

The iconic orange roofs of Howard Johnson's restaurants were once fixtures of the American highway. But the chain faded in the '80s. The 60-year-old location in Lake Placid, N.Y., closed Tuesday.

Albert Woodfox has spent four decades in solitary confinement after he was convicted of the stabbing death of a prison guard. Woodfox's conviction was overturned.

Two recent reports on a Stanford Noble Laureate's efforts to change how undergraduate science education struck a nerve with many of you.

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday that "none of these appalling features of our current politics should ever be regarded as normal."

Hear essential songs by the late architect of rock and roll, plus recordings by artists who influenced him, and those who covered and took inspiration from him.