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Baltimore City employees are issued a vaccine mandate. The Baltimore County Council votes for a state-of-emergency extension. And gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore outlines his plan for a ‘trauma-informed’ administration.

Jason V. hosts a panel discussion with Dr. Johnny Graham of Howard University and Vic Carter of WJZ at the Juneteenth Luncheon at The Center Club Baltimore.

Or is I-83 still like the Grand Prix?

The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

The suspect flashed a red and blue light to signal a sheriff's detective to the side of the road. He was promptly arrested.

Simon Brodkin, a British comedian, made a reference to the corruption scandal that has rocked soccer's world governing body, before chucking a wad of cash over FIFA President Sepp Blatter's head.

Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous of the nation's prognosticating rodents, is reported to have seen his shadow, indicating no early coming of spring.

Drummer Paul Motian has spent more than 50 years in music, working with jazz luminaries like Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. At 75, he has a new CD of bebop jazz: Garden of Eden, featuring his own band.

Everything may seem to go wrong for the villainous Dr. Horrible, but life's peachy for Neil Patrick Harris, the actor who plays the bumbling baddie in the eponymous Internet musical. He's moved on from life as Doogie Howser, M.D., and was recently nominated for an Emmy for his role in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Throw Down Your Arms, Sinead O'Connor's new album, is quite a departure from her past efforts. The Irish songstress takes a tour of Jamaican music that grooves along as it scores political points.

Chris Douridas, a music supervisor for feature films and host of the music show New Ground at member station KCRW, recently went to Japan and brought back some real gems — he shares his musical finds.

"Heartbreak Hotel," hit song that helped launch Elvis Presley's career in 1956, may live on, but the studio where it was recorded is gone. The building at 1525 McGavock Street in Nashville has been torn down to make way for a parking lot.

A drug deal gone bad, a traffic stop gone wrong, carnage so far gone it's off the charts — Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel has been turned into the sharpest Coen Bros. film in years. (Recommended)

At a Maryland middle school, 25 children hone their comedy skills for a spring show. The comedy club might provide a blueprint for similar programs at other schools. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

From Outkast's politicized hip-hop to the first CD from singer-songwriter Edie Brickell in a decade, this fall brings a bevy of new music releases. NPR's Michele Norris reviews the fall lineup with Tom Moon of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Will Hermes of Spin magazine.

Writer Suzan-Lori Parks has won acclaim for depictions of African-American life. The author of Topdog/Underdog discusses two of her favorite dramatic scenes, from The Sound of Music and Taxi Driver.

On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes. For 10 years the duo captured the imaginations of adults and children alike. Now every published panel of the strip has been collected in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

Irish comedian Maeve Higgins moved to the U.S. with a visa for artists with "extraordinary abilities." But the myth of the "good immigrant," she says, perpetuates harm and discrimination.

Nick Lowe's new At My Age, his first album in six years, combines amiable, little-known country covers with rangey, vaguely R&B-ified originals. The weirdest and wittiest of these is "I Trained Her to Love Me."

As efforts to control books continue, Nashville Public Library hopes to reach thousands of readers with its "I read banned books" card.