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The comedian's new book, Dad Is Fat, chronicles life in a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment with five little kids. Gaffigan says having children has made him a better comedian — and living in the city has helped him raise better kids.

Kevin Kruse's book looks at how industrialists in the '30s and '40s recruited clergy to preach free enterprise. And under the Eisenhower administration, Christianity and capitalism moved center stage.

Michigan Radio broadcasts hundreds of stories, interviews, and commentaries every week.One person can't possibly hear them all.Here, you'll find a few…

Toyota will shut down its U.S. factories five extra days this spring because of parts shortages – and warns its American dealers to expect inventory…

Another sure sign of spring: the Great Lakes shipping season kicked off this week.Millions of tons of cargo travel by boat on the Great Lakes every year–…

Thanhha Lai's novel for young people, Inside Out & Back Again, conveys the wonders of being rescued in 1975 during an operation led by the USS Kirk. Last year, NPR shared other tales of that operation from refugees and U.S. sailors.

Acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano Shirley Verrett has died at age 79, in Ann Arbor. New Orleans-born Verrett was one of the top black opera…

With just 25 days to go before the Presidential election, and a week since the first Presidential debate, a few pollsters and at least one analyst are…

The Bush Administration unveiled its plan Thursday for overhauling the vast regulatory system to prevent another crisis in the nation's credit markets. It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame, and it proposed that mortgage brokers be licensed and added new voluntary guidelines.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that regulators may have misinterpreted the federal Clean Water Act when they refused to allow two Michigan men to build on wetlands they own. The 5-4 decision came after debate over whether government can extend protection for wetlands miles away from waterways.