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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Shermichael Singleton, Republican political consultant and contributing host of Vox's Consider It, about his reaction to the end of the Mueller investigation.

Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, for a preview of what Friday's jobs report is likely to say about the U.S. economy. The stock market is setting records and though profits are up, wages are stagnant.

Though the nation's unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in February, employers actually cut payrolls by a net 63,000 jobs. The rate fell because so many people decided to stop looking for work — a new sign of weakness in the economy.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former Watergate assistant prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks what answers she's expecting from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

The government released figures Monday showing that a record number of Americans faced food insecurity in 2008. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said 49 million people lack the access to food that they need.

One day before the Sept. 11 commission's report becomes public, the body's leaders brief members of Congress and key members of President Bush's staff. Commissioners gave Congress advance word of some of their recommendations, but not an advance look at the entire report. NPR's David Welna reports.

Reports of sexual misconduct nearly doubled from 2016 to 2017 at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported Wednesday…

Logging in other parts of the forest has degraded the land contributing to landslides and the proliferation of invasive plants.

A long-awaited Army report on prison abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan is released to accusations that it downplays problems in military detention facilities. The Army Inspector General's report states there are no systemic problems that led to prisoner abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee call the report a whitewash. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

By Cash/GarnerMurray, KY – The Afternoon Stock Report on November 3, 2008.