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U.S. employers added 114,000 jobs in September, the Labor Department reports. And the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent, marking the first time since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009 that the U.S. jobless rate is under 8 percent.

NPR Music intern Catherine DeGennaro finds out while the context may change, the blues stays the same.

Flooding along the Mississippi and its tributaries is breaking high-water records that have stood since the 1930s.

The U.S. added 244,000 jobs in April, the biggest jump in five years. So why did the unemployment rate rise?

On this week's podcast, we talk about whether there's any actual momentum toward more (and more active) female fighters, then we consider the movies we can't help watching whenever they're around. Plus, of course, what's making us happy this week.

The head of Ivory Coast's Constitutional Court, Paul Yao Ndre, has reversed his earlier decision, and decided to endorse the campaign victory of Ivory Coast President-elect, Alassane Ouattara.

Osama bin Laden's death has sparked a debate on whether "enhanced interrogation techniques" were responsible for finding bin Laden. Host Michel Martin speaks with former Bush administration official John Yoo, who says coercion was pivotal in gathering data. During Bush's first presidential term, Yoo wrote legal memos justifying the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and warrantless wiretaps.

In a 2006 interview, Terry Gross sits down with Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock to talk about The Beastie Boys' 2006 concert movie Awesome; I...Shot That! and their 25 years making hip-hop.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is the first Beastie Boys album since the all-instrumental 2007 collection The Mix-Up. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the new record is fresh and vital because it sounds so old-fashioned and defiant.

Pictures are communicative gestures and they can't be understood out of narrative context. This general observations sheds light on the difficult choice faced this week by the President as to whether to release pictures of the dead mass murderer.