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U.S. student loan debt tops $1 trillion, and young people face disproportionately high unemployment. Writer Joel Kotkin points to these numbers when he claims the millennial generation is getting the short end of the stick. Kotkin speaks with host Michel Martin about what he calls the "screwed generation."

Top reporters open their notebooks share what they’re watching for in the week ahead.

Former Billboard editor Danyel Smith says the Miami rapper's youthful appeal has helped push his third collaboration with Jennifer Lopez to the top of the charts. Another dance track making a splash this summer, Smith says, is LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It."

Fifty years ago, a 23-year-old piano student from Los Angeles took a chance, competing in the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Daniel Pollack didn't take home the top prize, but he did carve out a unique career, preserved with bittersweet memories.

Former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine predicts that the killer whale will usurp the polar bear as the king of the Arctic by the year 2050.

Americans remember The Four Tops for "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)." But Italians may know it by a different name: "Piangono Gli Uomini." A new compilation spotlights the Italian, German, French and Spanish versions of classic R&B songs.

Utah's Zion National Park draws 2.7 million visitors a year. A major attraction for hearty hikers is the uphill trek from the Virgin River along the Grotto trailhead to Angel's Landing. It's like reaching another world.

Italy's women are the top-ranked fencers in the world with the foil. But in a tense Olympic final on Thursday, the U.S. women prevailed for the gold medal.

Themes emerge quickly when you dig into the nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards. The major categories are dominated by women and seemingly up for grabs; elsewhere, progress is not always so clear.

Days after the marathon bombing, officials established the One Fund for Boston to assist victims and their families. Attorney Ken Feinberg, who managed similar funds after Sept. 11 and Virginia Tech and is managing this fund, says there's no easy way to decide who gets how much of the $30 million that's been donated.