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The top 25 new and reissued jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music played on WEMU the week of October 10-16, 2004.Following are the 25…

The top 25 new and reissued jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban and Brazilian CDs played on WEMU July 4-10, 2004.Following are the 25 most-played new and reissued…

Lisa visits the Public Theater in New York for a rehearsal of Top Dog/Underdog a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks. The play features two guys named Lincoln and Booth who live in a claustrophobic New York apartment. It's directed by George C. Wolfe, and stars Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle.

South Africa's parliament on Tuesday holds a no-confidence vote against President Jacob Zuma over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the economy. Zuma has been president since 2009.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has set up an emergency call center for veterans who think their personal data may have been exposed after a burglary earlier this month. The Social Security numbers and birth dates of about 26.5 million veterans were stolen from a VA employee’s home. Veterans' organizations are calling for an investigation.

Taking part in education or work programs could allow Michigan prisoners to reduce their prison time under bills introduced Tuesday in the state Senate.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Rohit Chopra, former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about the Trump administration's pause of the agency's enforcement actions.

Next week, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol finally arrives in paperback, along with Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton's memoir, journalist Fareed Zakaria's update on the post-American world, journalist Annie Jacobsen's look inside a top secret U.S. military base, and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff's true tale of the survivors in a WWII plane crash.

Former Detroiter Bettye LaVette has always defied description and categorization. While many of her contemporaries followed the dictates of their record…

Oscar nominations had already been delayed once due to the fires raging in Los Angeles. The ceremony itself remains scheduled for early March.