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The Brazilian city is an economic engine in a booming country. It's also a huge mess, with traffic jams that go for miles, crumbling infrastructure and shoddy airports. Urban planners say a major makeover must include a razing of the elevated highway.

Alice Eastman, a single mother living in Wheaton, Ill., tried to make ends meet on unemployment while she hunted for a job in her field after being laid off in 2010. After a long, fruitless search, Eastman, a once highly paid professional, took a minimum-wage job at Target.

The team will move from the National League to the American. Also, Major League Baseball is adding one "wild card" team to each league's playoffs.

Once relegated to a few urban enclaves, the American hipster is suddenly everywhere. And, though it sounds funny, says one aficionado of hip culture, "hipsters in Omaha may actually be cooler than hipsters in New York City."

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is accused of firing shots at the executive mansion. Authorities say one bullet struck a window, but did not penetrate the protective glass.

A less kitschy version of Eurovision showcases music sung in languages at risk of disappearing.

President Obama used his trip to the Pacific Rim this week to announce plans for a new American military base in Darwin, Australia. The move changes the stance of U.S. forces in the region — countering the growing strength and presence of China's military. Guy Raz talks with Thomas P. M. Barnett, chief analyst for Wikistrat, a consultancy that provides geopolitical analysis. He's also executive vice president of the Center for America-China Partnership.

Officials say an underground neo-Nazi group is responsible for the murders of nine immigrants and a policewoman, a string of bank robberies and a bombing over the past 13 years. Now, Germans are asking questions about the apparent shortcomings of the state security services.

Melissa Block checks back in with Jason Potteiger with the Occupy Boston movement. The recent college graduate was unemployed when we first talked to him last month. Now he's got a job, but he continues to work with the movement on various projects.

Barron Lerner, a professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University, wrote One for the Road, about the history of drunk driving in America. And what he found was that the legal limit is very lenient, especially compared with other countries. And there is little political will to change it.