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As companies continue to scale back pensions for their workers, some CEOs will earn millions of dollars annually in retirement, according to figures released by the AFL-CIO.

Bettye LaVette is currently celebrating her 60th birthday, and her latest album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. And as she's done for four decades, she's still raising hell on the concert circuit.

It's hard to imagine summer without a visit to an amusement park... and a heart-stopping rollercoaster ride. Every year, the coasters seem scarier. In Orlando, Disney seeks to raise a coaster's scream quotient while keeping it deceptively slow.

Day to Day introduces listeners to Missy Higgins, a young singer-songwriter who has quickly become one of Australia's most popular musicians. Higgins began singing in her early teens, lying about her age to play at clubs. Hear her perform live at NPR West.

Debt relief for Africa will be on the agenda when the leaders of the G8 nations meet in Scotland later this week. Kenya, which owes billions to foreign creditors, allocates almost a third of its budget to pay debts. But Kenya is unlikely to have its debts cancelled at the upcoming summit.

Ed Gordon talks with singer, songwriter and pastor Donnie McClurkin about fame, his troubled past, his bright future and reaching out to an international audience through gospel music.

The 25th anniversary of the holiday special brings together keyboard players of all stripes. Harold Mabern, Kris Davis, Lynne Arriale and Cyrus Chestnut play seasonal favorites for solo piano.

Condiment company Hidden Valley created the diamond in a process that involved heating dry ranch seasoning to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, then crushing it under 400 tons of pressure for months.

One baby was born at Advocate Christ Medical Center outside Chicago. Another at a hospital in Burlington, N.C., in Room 2. And in Salt Lake City, two different hospitals delivered babies at 2:22.

Singer, musician and folklorist Mick Moloney's new album, McNally's Row of Flats, centers on theater songs by an Irish songwriting team from the late 1800s. In those days, Vaudeville and minstrelsy were giving way to American Musical Theater in New York City.