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An independent panel votes to keep open South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base. The base closing commission voted to reject a Pentagon plan to close the state's second largest employer.

The mayor of New Orleans is suspending his plan to bring Hurricane Katrina evacuees back home. Instead, Mayor Ray Nagin is ordering a new evacuation because tropical storm Rita may pose a new risk for the embattled city.

Singer-songwriter John Vanderslice and Brooklyn rock band Bishop Allen take the stage for a night of smart, adventurous pop music, webcast live on NPR.org. Bishop Allen opens the performance from Washington, D.C.'s Rock and Roll Hotel.

Featuring Anat Cohen on clarinet and saxophones, the Anzic Orchestra -- a jazz band with a cello section -- blows away the Kennedy Center crowd at the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. Competition winner Hailey Niswanger opens.

In the late 1990s, JazzSet made two visits to the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival in Gresham, Ore. Music started before noon, and as the sun burned the haze away, the snow-capped peak shimmered on the skyline, helping to inspire memorable performances by the Billy Childs Trio and the John Blake Quintet.

There was more fierce fighting today around the central Iraqi city of An Najaf, about 100 miles south of the capital of Baghdad. U.S. forces with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division have all but surrounded the city, and are slowly eliminating the Iraqi military and paramilitary resistance there. NPR's Eric Westervelt, embedded with the 3rd Infantry, reports on the fierce battle to gain control of the city -- site of a holy Shi'ite shrine.

Artist Stefanie Nagorka is creating her own studio space of late in the aisles of Home Depot stores. She creates sculptures out of common building materials, and she hopes to produce a piece of original work in Home Depot stores in all 50 states. NPR's Susan Stone reports.

The strange troubles of a small town where an oil boom has driven unemployment below 1 percent.

From a cozy home in Pittsboro, N.C., the singer and guitarist breathes new life into old, obscure folk songs.

Every month seems to bring another rediscovered talent from the golden age of soul music — someone who was little more than a footnote during the outbreak of amazingness that distinguishes that fertile era. What makes Lorraine Ellison's case puzzling is the remarkable consistency of her work.