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  • We’ve been exploring the careers of the Jones Brothers from Pontiac, Michigan. We heard from pianist Hank Jones and trumpeter Thad Jones, so our final…
  • Bill reads three news-related limericks...Make-out Multitasking; Hollywood Lost and Found; Intern IPA
  • European police round up more terrorist suspects after Tuesday's deadly bombings in Brussels. Many involved had ties to last year's Paris attacks.
  • The jazz musician said he "changed music five or six times." Well, did he really? We check the claim with Sean Jones of the Berklee College of Music, digging into Miles' archives with ears wide open.
  • Cheadle wrote, directed and stars in the new film Miles Ahead, which sees a late-career Miles Davis struggles to reconnect with his muse. Read his extended conversation with Michel Martin.
  • The plane was diverted while flying from the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria to the capital, Cairo, and later landed in Cyprus. Rachel Martin talks to Andria Kades a reporter for the Cyprus Mail.
  • The Cubs game against the Seattle Mariners was delayed as Heyward tried to bat the bees away. He even climbed a wall to escape, but said after the game that he'd been stung at least 10 times.
  • The incident involving EgyptAir Flight 181 ended with an arrest and all passengers and crew being released. The suspect, whose demands changed during the morning, had partly personal motivations.
  • Actress Patty Duke, who played an adolescent Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, and starred in her own TV sitcom — The Patty Duke Show — while still in her teens, has died. She was 69.
  • Peter Berkowitz wanted to share an apartment with a friend but the rent was too high. Instead, inspired by Japan's "capsule" hotels, he set up a bedroom pod in the living room of some friends.
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