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In tribute to Dave McKenna, Marian McPartland asked pianist and singer Daryl Sherman to guest host this remembrance that includes clips from the two programs McKenna did with McPartland in 1979 and 1994. Sherman also puts a delightful twist on "Rhode Island is Famous for You" and "Teddy Ballgame."

When a successful band returns after a long break, it's bound to worry about expectations. That's what's striking about new albums by Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains: Pearl Jam is the only one that sounds desperate to give fans exactly what they've come to expect. Alice in Chains sounds considerably more liberated.

Will Oldham's new album Beware, released under his country music name, Bonnie Prince Billy, offers lovely music with a tinge of "lonesome-cowboy pokiness." Ken Tucker has a review.

Pacifica Radio's audio archives, a collection featuring recordings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Lenny Bruce and other artists and political figures, are in danger of fading away. NPR's Bob Edwards discusses the network's effort to preserve 50 years of historic recordings with archive director Brian DeShazor.

He rose to fame in the 1960s with frequent appearances on The Tonight Show and roles in such movies as It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. In the '80s, he was on TV's Mork & Mindy. Winters' comedy albums are considered to be classics. He was 87.

Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it's stopping human spaceflights for at least two years. The move will allow it to "shift resources" to the company's lunar landing capabilities.

The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Trimming the rise in obesity in the U.S. by just 1 percent over the next two decades would reduce health care costs by by $85 billion. The fight isn't likely to be cheap. But new researchers shows that even a small dent in obesity rates could pay off.

Shortly after the attack last August, Patrick Wood Crusius allegedly told police he had driven to the store intending to kill "Mexicans."

The Americans qualified with a CONCACAF tournament win over Mexico. The squad will be making its seventh-straight Olympics appearance — and get a shot at redemption after the 2016 Games.

"Nearly three decades after [Dustin Lee] Honken coldly ended the lives of five people, including two young girls ... he has finally faced justice," a spokeswoman said in a statement.

The DOJ calls this "the government's largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context." It also seizes websites ISIS allegedly used to sell fake face masks during the pandemic.

A full panel of judges will consider the unusual situation in which the Justice Department has asked to drop charges against a defendant who has admitted guilt.

Republicans once moved in lockstep to support government surveillance. The Russia investigation changed that — and Congress is poised to alter the law in response.

The House says secret grand jury evidence is relevant to an "ongoing investigation" and could lead to new impeachment charges.

The decision from FBI Director Christopher Wray comes two weeks after the Justice Department moved to drop its case against Flynn.

The court has ruled that a judge can hear arguments about the Justice Department's motivations for wanting to end prosecution of President Trump's former national security adviser.

As protests for racial justice continue, many are asking how racism became so embedded in our lives. This hour, TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers guides us through talks that offer part of the answer.

The vote comes days after Gov. Doug Ducey granted local governments autonomy to set their own health and safety measures to fight rising COVID-19 cases. Arizona lifted stay-at-home rules last month.

The freeze on renaming any campus buildings or monuments was implemented by the board in 2015, after it voted to change the name of a classroom building named for a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.