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Get ready to break into a sweat: this week's songs were picked by one of Latin Alternative's brightest rising stars, Rita Indiana. The prolific Dominican writer, artist and musician takes a breather from her busy schedule to share some of her favorite songs and talk about her own music.

The job market is getting better. The housing market is getting worse.

Speaker John Boehner avoided a no-win question when he declined to say whether he would or wouldn't "buck" the Tea Party in response to a question from ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. He also may have given some lawmakers heartburn when he said they shouldn't get paid during the shutdown.

But, adds the widely read Tunisian blogger known as Big Trap Boy, he suspects that many in his country will have trouble knowing "where politics start and where religions ends."

Pharmaceutical companies find ways to market medicines for uses that haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Despite stepped up federal enforcement, a doctor who has analyzed the practices says they are unlikely to fade away.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says for too long, states have focused on incarceration at the expense of education. A new report released today by the group, connects incarceration rates with poorly performing schools. Between 1987 and 2007, the report shows that higher education spending grew by 21%, compared with a 127% rise in funding for corrections. Guest host Allison Keyes speaks with NAACP head, Benjamin Jealous.

An inventively animated documentary gets the basics right in its portrait of the late Bill Hicks, a counter-culture comedian who rose to prominence in the '90s — but a full picture of a singular performer will have to wait for another film.

The high court race took a bizarrer turn as the GOP judge went from behind to way ahead.

Hundreds of veterans are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with disabilities that make it hard or impossible to get a job. Many are eligible for disability benefits — but with a wait time of months or years, the veterans risk serious financial trouble.

The ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan may undermine support for nuclear power in the U.S. But it could accelerate the natural gas boom already under way in the Marcellus basin — a 400-million-year-old shale formation stretching from New York to Kentucky.