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A staff member at the Securities and Exchange Commission has complained to Congress that thousands of investigative documents have been destroyed by the agency, including some relating to huge investment banks. But an SEC spokesman says there's nothing wrong with how it handled internal records.

The Supplemental Security Income program has grown nearly 40 percent since 2002, with the biggest increase among kids with mental, behavioral and learning disorders. That rise in costs — and recent criticism about the potential for fraud and abuse — make SSI a target for federal budget cutters.

Sometimes, when walking Brooklyn's streets, it doesn't feel as if its literary past is haunting. Rather, its literary soul is still alive and pulsating. Brooklyn is a world unto itself and a writer's enclave. Journalist and critic Evan Hughes has written a literary biography of the leafy borough.

1970 was a bummer of a year: violence, political unrest and the end of The Beatles. Fire and Rain, a new book by David Browne, chronicles that turbulent year in politics and music.

Last week's story about the wedding dress industry — and the fact that many brides-to-be are still willing to pay top dollar despite the bad economy — reminded one listener of shopping for her special day. Listeners also responded to the story about the town where Shawshank Redemption was filmed.

Clyde Edgerton's new novel, The Night Train, tells the story of two boys whose friendship is concealed due to a culture of racial segregation in the 1960s. Edgerton harkens back to his own childhood in North Carolina — the days when friendship between black and white children was culturally unacceptable — and asks what has changed in the past 50 years.

She's already one of the most imaginative saxophone players in jazz today. But Roberts' new album challenges even that reputation: It's a musical patchwork spanning decades of history and memory in the lives of 18th-century Louisiana "free people of color."

British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to address Parliament Wednesday on the phone-hacking scandal. It is thought he'll give details of a public inquiry into the media, the day after Rupert Murdoch and his son were grilled by members of a parliamentary committee.

In the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Tina Brown recommends articles that show the breadth of opinion on Rupert Murdoch's media empire and its practices as well as the events that took place behind the scenes that led up to the story breaking.