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The Labor Department issues January's unemployment report on Friday, and it doesn't look good. More than a half million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, part of a spike expected for the month of January. Analysts expect the rate to jump to 7.5 percent in January from 7.2 percent the month before.

Microsoft said its quarterly revenue fell from the previous year for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company. The software giant said its earnings dropped 32 percent to 2.98 billion dollars.

John Templeton, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has died. Templeton was a pioneer of international investing and mutual funds in the years after World War II. He was also known for the prize that sought to reconcile science and religion.

A new exhibit at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., is highlighting the lesser-known stories of the Civil War.

Rock critic Ken Tucker gives us his top picks in pop for 2004. He runs down his 10 best albums, and then talks about some trends of 2004, such as the return of punk, the year of the hip-hop producer, crunk music, and the potential end of an era as iPods and single song downloads replace album purchases. Ken Tucker is also a film critic for New York magazine.

Inflation will drive a big salary increase for Pennsylvania state lawmakers, judges and top executive branch officials in 2022.

Mandy Whitaker plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Alec Weisman of San Francisco.

Pennsylvania’s highest court is putting a final nail into the coffin of a proposed victims’ rights constitutional amendment that state voters supported by a large margin more than two years ago but has never gone into effect.

Sam Hass plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.