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A judge in Virginia confirms the death sentence set for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad by a jury last fall. The judge scheduled an October date for the sentence to be carried out. Hear NPR's Brian Naylor.

Herbie Hancock continues his tour in tribute to the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Herbie Hancock's new album is called Future 2 Future.

Tom Vitale reports on another living legend — Carlos Santana and the reissue of a 30-year-old recording Divine Light, in which the guitarist performs the music of jazz icon John Coltrane.

Most were sentenced under drug charges. Nearly all of them would have already served their time if they were convicted of the same crime today.

John Logsdon, former director of the Space Policy Institute, discusses the explosion and the future of private sector space missions.

Joshua Bell has won a Grammy, and his playing helped composer John Corigliano to an Oscar for The Red Violin. At 37, Bell has played with every major orchestra in the world. He joins Fred Child for music and conversation in NPR's Studio 4A.

In the second of three debates between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, randomly selected audience members, not the moderator, pose questions to the candidates.

The PBS documentary film Almost Home tells the story of people who end up in nursing homes and chronicles how one man -- John George -- is trying to improve the experience.

In The Israel Lobby, which grew out of a controversial 2006 article in the London Review of Books, Stephen Walt and co-author John Mearsheimer examine the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy. They argue that American support for Israel cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds.

Also: A swift, deadly California wildfire gobbles up thousands of acres; Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) speaks today as a new accusation surfaces; and former presidential candidate John Anderson dies.

Presidential candidate John Edwards announced Thursday that his wife, Elizabeth, has a recurrence of breast cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, when her husband was the Democratic vice presidential candidate. She was thought to be recovering, but the cancer has returned.

Caroline Kennedy's new Christmas anthology opens with her 1962 letter to Santa. In it, she wished for skates, dolls and a "pet reindeer" for herself and "some noisy thing" for her brother John. But a family tradition shunned toys for oranges and walnuts.

Educator John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board — and lets his fourth-graders solve them. He explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids and why the complex lessons it teaches go further than classroom lectures can.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and listener John Meissner of Estes Park, Colorado.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with MPR listener John Barnicle of Eagan, Minn., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

John Ellis had barely heard of hepatitis B when he was diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease at age 16.

David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution discuss John McCain's health care vote and White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.

Employers added 211,000 jobs to payrolls last month, setting the stage for a Federal Reserve interest rate increase later this month.

House Speaker John Boehner delivered remarks to the press Friday on his decision to resign, and President Obama offered comments on the resignation, as well.

The satirist has managed to anger two governments in Egypt. Both the Islamists and the military have taken offense to his routines.