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The band Dream Wife began as an art school project designed to explore feminine tropes in pop music — before it became a real band dedicated to doing the very same.

Fans of the Americana group Carolina Chocolate Drops know the power of singer Leyla McCalla. She honed her musical talents growing up in New York City to Haitian-born parents. Host Michel Martin speaks with McCalla about her first solo album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes.

NSA Director Keith Alexander told a Senate panel that his agency's program did indeed protect American's privacy while gathering data on terrorist activity. Alexander told lawmakers he wants to declassify more details to reassure everyone the programs are legal and effective.

After graduation, a group of college students landed a nutty job — quite literally. For the next year, they will don the monocle of Mr. Peanut and drive the Planters Peanut Nutmobile.

The rate of inflation in the U.S. rose to a little over 8% last month. That's the highest rate since 1981. With the cost of good and services up, it's putting a strain on many families.

"Movement," from an as-yet-untitled set due out in 2019, leans hard into Hozier's gift for songs that soar with stormy, propulsive intensity.

"As the race stands now ... there is a good chance that my candidacy could lead to the election of Donald Trump or Senator Ted Cruz," former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote Monday.

If you can't join us in Newport this weekend, we have you covered. Hear sets from Shovels & Rope, Angel Olsen, Jim James, John Prine and more during our live stream of the Newport Folk Festival.

In the song's first 20 seconds, the doom-metal band strides along with unmistakable heft, like a knight returned victorious from battle. But it's a ruse.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.