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Residents can now get into their devastated neighborhoods without passing through police checkpoints. Meanwhile, there's word that insurance policies may cover less of the cost of damages than in past disasters.

Monday June 2Global Village tours the Caribbean for music from Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico from the Mini All Stars, the Buena Vista Social Club’s…

Crossroads Top 40 - MARCH 20141. Billy Branch & Sons of Blues - Blues Shock (Blind Pig)2. Johnny Winter - True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story…

The attorney general has endorsed a proposal to shorten sentences of nonviolent offenders in an effort to cut federal spending on prisons.

Global Village - Top 40 March 20141. Soweto Gospel Choir - Divine Decade (Decca). You can listen to the KMUW special that ran last month, as well as the…

Monday 6.30.14Night Train wraps up the June Blue Note feature, including music from one of the label’s most adventurous artists – pianist and composer…

Crossroads Top 40 - APRIL 20141. Little Feat - Rad Gumbo (Warner Bros.)2. Magic Sam - Live at the Avant Garde (Delmark)3. Johnny Winter - True to the…

"The office of the presidency — the most powerful position in the world — brings with it many awesome and solemn responsibilities," President Obama said. "This is not one of them." He gave an official pardon to save Popcorn the turkey from a Thanksgiving dinner table.

A North Dakota agency waited more than a week to tell the public about a pipeline spill of more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil. A wheat farmer was the first to recognize the spill had happened.

Perry is among the world's biggest pop singers, but fans know her current career is actually a second take. She speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about failing to break out as a Christian artist, and how she rose again as the star we know today.