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  • Using a questionnaire, a musical consulting company assembles a mix of songs from artists it predicts clients will like. Jennifer Ludden tried it out and received a CD with 16 songs. She talks to audiostiles.com co-founder Jeremy Abrams about how the choices are made.
  • This January, NPR member stations share a mix of the most popular songs on their airwaves, including music from The Avalanches, Jade Bird, Madlib, Run the Jewels and more.
  • Two arrests have been made after assailants on a moped carried out the attacks over 90 minutes in east London late Thursday, police say.
  • Eyewitness Pam Schneider from Bismarck, N.D., thought she heard fireworks when the shooting began in Las Vegas. It was a strange sound, she says, and then she realized it was gunfire.
  • A 5-year-old in Mississippi called 911 because he was worried that the Grinch would steal Christmas. Police showed up to assure him that wasn't going to happen.
  • A new cellphone service called Dodgeball helps people meet up with their friends on the fly, via mobile phone. The free service has more in common with social software that originally started on the Internet than traditional phone-company offerings. Ben Gilbert reports.
  • Frank Quintero is the director of a violence prevention program in the housing projects of East Los Angeles. He thinks if once-warring black gang leaders in L.A. can declare a truce and deliver Thanksgiving baskets to the families of their enemies, surely the incoming president can reach out to his political enemies.
  • All nine seasons of the classic sitcom Seinfeld debut on Netflix this week. But some aspects of the show might not work for modern audiences.
  • Crown Heights came to North Hollywood so we could talk about crossed signals on the highways between artist and industry.
  • Parents react to the recent Food and Drug Administrations emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine, which allows children ages 5-11 to receive the vaccine.
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