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  • NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that tomorrow, at 5 am eastern standard time, a special Scottish court in the Netherlands will announce its verdict in the case of two Libyans charged with blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some family members of the American victims are upset they won't be able to travel there in time. Two hundred seventy people were killed when the Pan Am jet, on a flight from London to New York, blew up in the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland in December of 1988.
  • The now-legendary video was overtaken by a song created for the Furious 7 soundtrack
  • Union leaders have voted to suspend their strike, which began last week. The full membership will vote on the deal on Sunday. The dispute has kept 53,000 students from starting their school year.
  • The 2019 Grammy nominations were announced this week. NPR's Michel Martin revisits some of her interviews with this year's nominees, including Pusha T and P.J. Morton.
  • After 24 years in the music business, the producer and rapper from Compton, Calif., knows what's going on. He told Microphone Check studio secrets, a Rick James story, and all about the funk.
  • While most Westerners see the swastika as a symbol of Nazi Germany or white supremacy, it has been a symbol of good fortune in Asia thousands of years before Hitler.
  • Michael Zusman used to be a lawyer, specializing in suing financial companies. The work literally started making him sick. Then he stumbled into baking. His new cookbook promises that you can make your own pastrami, pickles and bagels better than you can buy at your local deli.
  • Recorded live on stage at the Meyerhoff, Scott Simon joins BSO music director Marin Alsop and Leonard Bernstein's daughter Jamie for a conversation and musical celebration.
  • The duo's fourth album is a testament to the power of a celebration gone weird, with chopped-up and resequenced hooks working as the raw material for a scathing, fragmentary kind of pop.
  • After the only abortion clinic in Montgomery, Ala., shut down, a next-door organization has been threading a legal needle to give reproductive health care to those coming from hundreds of miles away.
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