There's a long history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to comedian Andy Huggins about aging, his long career in stand-up comedy and his first full-length special, which he taped at age 73.

Cuts at NOAA mean fewer hurricane-hunter aircrafts will be gathering real time data on developing storms and that the team developing computer models for forecasts will be "gutted," insiders say.