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When The Beatles' members started Apple Records 40 years ago, they still depended on larger companies for the basics. Independent labels, including some run by musicians, have come a long way since. A small but growing number of musicians are taking the idea of the independent label even further.

Sean Combs, known as "Diddy" to his fans, has released his first album in five years. The rap star and entrepreneur has a net worth of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. He hopes to add to his wealth with his new CD Press Play.

Blind Pilot conducted its first tour on a pair of bicycles, riding from Vancouver to San Francisco. Though the group now tours in a van, its members look back fondly on their early days, which included campfires and unexpected attention from truckers.

NPR's Kelsey Snell talks with Japan-based reporter for Vice World News, Hanako Montgomery, about the lifting of decades-old school uniform rules in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

The resignation of a Levi Strauss & Co. executive this week has prompted big questions about corporations and speech. Where is the line between personal and professional opinions?

Bosses at several major national publications and TV networks are retiring, signaling a changing of the guard that coincides with the presidential transition and the fight for racial justice.

China is battling coronavirus outbreaks in six cities. More than 20 million people are in some form of lockdown.

To keep their three kids in a sought-after public school district, one family sleeps in a car in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania Walmart while the parents work the overnight shift at the store.

You might have heard about the widening income gap. You might not know there's a life expectancy gap as well. The rich are outliving the poor by a wider margin than ever before, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with co-author Gary Burtless about the study.

Republicans on a House panel have summoned FBI Director James Comey to testify about his recommendation against prosecuting Hillary Clinton. The Justice Department has accepted Comey's recommendation.