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A powerful storm dumps snow, sleet and freezing rain on the Middle Atlantic states and the Northeast. An estimated 1.6 million people are left without power. North Carolina is especially hard-hit. Scott Jagow of member station WFAE reports.

Friday's Labor Department report on unemployment says more than 100,000 jobs were cut in December, an unexpectedly high number. But the overall unemployment rate holds at 6 percent. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Some 6,000 pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act provide new details about the mistreatment of detainees by U.S. soldiers and intelligence personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Jackie Northam.

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that a whopping 2.6 million jobs disappeared in 2008 and that an estimated 11 million Americans are looking for work. Three recent college graduates — Mimi Wong, Sarah Ahmad and Kelsey Schwenk — describe the frustrations and fears of finding themselves unemployed.

Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.

Tom Wilmer visits with Brooke and Steve Giannetti's new Patina Home and Garden retail store in uptown Leipers Fork, Tennessee.

The project is proposed on a vacant lot at West Grand Avenue and 4th Street. It would be a four-story building with a restaurant and living units.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Faith Morris, external affairs officer at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

Rachel Dinbokowitz with the Monterey County CVB shares cool recommendations for things to do and see in Monterey County, California