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The 333,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance was a 1.5 percent increase from the week before. But over the past month, claims ran at the lowest pace since November 2007 — just before the start of the last recession.

Television may be going through a revolution on the one hand, but it remains remarkably constant on the other.

What's your favorite franchise of Bravo's Real Housewives, Atlanta or New Jersey? How about The Acropolis? In this game, host Ophira Eisenberg stirs up the celestial domestic drama by performing imagined on-camera quotes from female Greek mythological figures. Can you guess the goddess?

The jobs numbers are out as President Obama wrapped up his economic tour this week. NPR's Ari Shapiro was traveling with the president and joins us for more on the president's economic agenda.

Michael Dell agreed to sweeten his proposal to buy Dell Inc., winning concessions from the board committee that boost his odds of winning shareholder support for the deal.

Writer Dena Kaye looks back at the remarkable life of her parents with host Michael Feinstein.

The second album from Williams and John Paul White comes on the heels of an abrupt, public falling-out. Williams says the duo's relationship was always built on a precarious kind of tension.

I don't know what this is, or what it cost this guy to do what he does to his knees, or to the top of his skull. I don't know what I'm listening to. I only know that what happens in this video is beautiful.

Patricia Lyons Simon Newman died in Chicago, at the age of 84. Her son, NPR's Scott Simon, tweeted from her bedside in the intensive care unit as their time together came to a close. He remembers her wisdom and wit, and the lessons she taught him.

Moments of exchange heat the video, change it from a document to a work of art, but the visual artists who stand in front of and with Jay (his co-stars) represent another conversation — one going on since the 1970s between hip-hop and the art world.