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Stephen Craig Paddock was 64 years old and lived about an hour outside of Las Vegas in a small town called Mesquite, Nev.

The Broadway hit tells the story of the American Revolution with a multi-racial cast and hip-hop music. The point is to make American history a lot more exciting than how it's often taught in school.

During the election campaign President Trump threatened to pull out of NAFTA, which he called the worst trade deal in U.S. history. But he may take a more temperate approach.

This week, Isabelle Meggett Lucas got to visit her childhood home — in the Smithsonian, which moved the house from South Carolina to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

WKMS kicks off 50th anniversary celebrations by hosting an evening with NPR’s Robert Siegel at Wrather Auditorium on Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m., as a…

2: Rock and roll songwriting team JERRY LEIBER and MIKE STOLLER. They're responsible for many of the greatest hits in rock history, among them "Hound Dog," "Yakity Yak," and "Stand By Me." Rhino records has a collection of their songs, called "There's A Riot Goin' On." And their songs have been published in the "Lieber & Stoller Songbook" (Warner Books). (Rebroadcast from December 19, 1991).RONNIE SPECTOR, who in the 1960s was a member of the girl group The Ronettes. She left the music business for several years, but the late Eighties, recorded new music. Here she talks about her hit song, "Be My Baby". (Rebroadcast from August 31. 1987).

lassical music critic LLOYD SCHWARZ reviews a new two-disc set of historical recordings of the theater music of Kurt Weill: "From Berlin to Broadway," (Pearl Records)Intv:One of the most respected historians of the media ERIC BARNOUW. (Pronounced "BAR-NO"). He is the author of the three-volume "History of Broadcasting." BARNOUW was the first chief of the Library of Congress'' Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recording Sound Division." BARNOUW has a new memoir about his life, "Media Marathon: A 20th Century Memoir." (Duke University Press).

Linda talks to Ruth Faden, author of "A History and Theory of Informal Consent" (Oxford University Press, 1986), and director of the Bio-Ethics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University . She is in Washington, D.C. to participate in the conference at the U.S. Holocaust Museum on "The Nuremberg Code and Human Rights: the 50th Anniversary of the Doctors Trials" (co-sponsored by Boston Univ. School of Public Health). published in the Nov. 27, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She co-authored a paper about the Nuremberg Code, (published in the Nov. 27, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association), which outlines permissible conditions for medical experiments on humans, as part of the final judgment by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. She tells how the Code guidelines for voluntary informed consent had not been formally adopted by medical establishments until the start of the Nuremberg Trials of Nazis performing medical experiments on prisoners. Faden also tells why the Code has not been widely adopted since the Trials.

Still, the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File says the high number of shark bites and deaths last year was on par with long-term averages.

More than 2,500 champion show dogs have descended upon Madison Square Garden for the 129th Westminster Kennel Club's dog show. One of the top African-American handlers in the sport is there, hoping to make history. Allison Keyes reports.