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Officials say the car was "visibly pre-positioned" and that its driver targeted a dozen soldiers as they left their quarters.

A 2013 zoning ordinance threatened Hermine Ricketts with a $50 fine each day for the garden she had tended for years. So she pulled it up — and got a lawyer.

Wild combinations yield wild results. This week's playlist includes Los Pirañas' squiggly psych-cumbia, Jessica Pavone's stirring string drone and noisy Afghan jams.

The rock singer Gord Downie died today after a long battle with brain cancer. The lead singer of the beloved Canadian band The Tragically Hip was 53. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Talia Schlanger, host and radio producer at World Cafe, about Downie's music and legacy.

The 96-year-old saxophonist, who began playing with Sun Ra in the late '50s and continued to lead the Arkestra after its namesake's death, discusses the band's first album in more than 20 years.

For two decades, some of Afropop's hottest sounds have come out of Brooklyn. Duke Amayo and Martin Perna of the band Antibalas talk about their latest release, Fu Chronicles.

In the 20th century, Finland became a progressive, cutting-edge technological society. Its music, though little-known, followed suit: Relentlessly innovative, much of today's best music from Finland pushes the past firmly into the future.

On its debut album, the London-based punk band combines sticky pop flourishes and bruising sounds with brazen self-assurance.

These days, the hip-hop group from Philadelphia is best known as the house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, but The Roots' members have been active together for almost 25 years. Their highly anticipated album How I Got Over is due for release in late June. Drummer/co-founder ?uestlove says it's a mature record inspired by change.

Released in 1972, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street was a fat collection of rock 'n' roll at its roughest and bluesiest. Nearly four decades later, it's a classic. In the center of the veritable circus surrounding the band was Keith Richards' villa in the south of France, where the album was recorded.