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On an investor call, Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said the company was investing $1 billion to raise wages, enhance benefits and modernize stores. But unionized stores won't get some of that.

Researchers at the Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina say sharing music files over the Internet has not adversely affected CD sales. The study compares downloads of music files with store sales of those same songs. Officials in the recording industry have long blamed file sharing for the decline in CD sales in recent years. NPR's Felix Contreras reports.

The Bush and Kerry campaign teams are both equipped with so-called "rapid response" units, tasked with rebutting attacks and pushing their candidates' message in a dizzying news cycle. This year, the biggest rapid response teams ever are producing biting rhetoric very early in the campaign. NPR's Juan Williams reports.

To create memorable roles in such films as Say Anything and I Shot Andy Warhol, actress Lili Taylor turns to the tools of psychology, she tells Intersections, our series on artists' inspirations. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.

In the first in a three-part series on California's Inland Empire, NPR's Carrie Kahn reports that while the economic recovery sputters around the country, this bastion of suburbia east of Los Angeles is booming. The housing market and robust economy continue to draw people by the millions, ultimately pushing the affordable housing even further east and north, over the mountains and into the desert.

Three U.S. soldiers are wounded in a roadside bombing just outside of Fallujah, west of the Baghdad. The attack comes as U.S. civilian and military officials in Baghdad condemn the events of Wednesday, when the bodies of four U.S. civilians killed by insurgents were dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson, NPR's Melissa Block and former Marine "Bing" West.

The bill signing comes on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that it is considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Former counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke gives testimony to the commission investigating U.S. policies before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying George W. Bush's administration did not give high priority to terrorist threats in its first seven months despite his urgings. Hear NPR's Pam Fessler, NPR's Robert Siegel and former National Security Agency head Lt. Gen. William Odom.

The new movie Hellboy is based on a comic book about a monster-fighting hero with a twist: he's also a demon, working for the U.S. government. Creator Mike Mignola says he drew inspiration from another famous creature of the dark -- Bram Stoker's Dracula. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

The U.S. Postal Service plans to allow Americans to take their ZIP codes with them when they move, NPR's Andrea Seabrook reported on April 1. No, the Postal Service has not lost its mind — April Fools' from All Things Considered.