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NPR Music's Song of the Day features a new track every weekday, with analysis of the music, links to each artist's Web site and, of course, a chance to hear the song itself. Here, Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson talks about recent selections by Hiromi, Frightened Rabbit, Sharon Van Etten and more.

In 1983, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was deemed a onafide federal holiday. New Hampshire is the one state the does not honor the ay in the name of the assassinated civil rights leader. Eric Westervelt of New ampshire public radio reports that last night the Reverend Jesse Jackson isited New Hampshire and urged state officials to rethink the issue.

Jeff Goldblum and Maika Monroe from Independence Day: Resurgence discuss the challenges of acting with CGI aliens. Plus, they play a game based on an infamous speech from Independence Day.

Go to the self-help section of any bookstore or scroll through the documentary section of Netflix, and there are dozens of titles linked to happiness.…

In honor of Sweetest Day, Ex Fabula is sparing you the candy and going straight for the hearts with one of our favorite How We Met duos.Before there was…

Half of New York City woke up happy today, and the other half depressed. NPR's Margot Adler reports on the aftermath of the "Subway Series."

NPR'S Mark Roberts discovered an enterprising photo company in the Rockies that takes holiday snaps of whitewater rafters and uses carrier pigeons to get the film back to town in time to meet the vacationers.

In an interview for All Things Considered, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor talks about Lazy B, the new book she wrote with her brother, and how the straightforward values she learned on the family ranch helped shape her destiny. (7:30) The book is published by Random House. ISBN # 03755

By day, Mary Bly is a respectable English professor at New York's Fordham University. But she has a secret -- one might even say romantic -- double life. As Eloisa James, she's the author of best-selling romance novels like Duchess in Love, and Much Ado About You.

Conventional wisdom says that the candidate leading in the polls on Labor Day will win in November. President Bush has a double-digit lead over Democratic Sen. John Kerry in two new polls. But conventional wisdom has proven unreliable in recent years. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR Political Analyst Cokie Roberts.