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For the fifth time in seven years, Barcelona and Argentine national team striker Messi has been named the best player in the world. He beat Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazil's Neymar.

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times the city has been under tighter federal control.

After a yearlong investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board did not find a single cause for the deadly collision near Washington, D.C., but blamed the crash on multiple systemic failures.

The Washington state congresswoman was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after Jan. 6. And she is one of three who are on the ballot Tuesday — in Washington and in Michigan.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Illinois Democrat Mike Quigley, who serves on the House Appropriations Committee, about his opposition to the Senate-brokered shutdown deal.

Spall plays J.M.W. Turner in the new film Mr. Turner;Ken Tucker says Black Messiah is as adventurous as any fan could hope for; Cleese'smemoir,So, Anyway..., covers his boyhood and early career.

Linguist WILLIAM LABOV (pronounced La Bove (like "cove") from the University of Pennsylvania discusses Ebonics. He's been studying Black English for 30 years and traced the rules governing Black and White English. He also examined the differences between the two and explored the roots of the changes taking place in the languages. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THRU THE END OF THE SHOW). LABOV continued. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . .part art, part industry, rock and roll music has become a $20 billion business It's the subject of former Rolling Stone editor FRED GOODMAN's new book, "The Mansion on the Hill." He talks with Terry about what has changed since the sixties that has made rock and roll a commercial powerhouse. Also, linguist WILLIAM LABOV (pronounced LA-Bove, like "Cove") on Ebonics. He's been studying Black English for 30 years. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

Our book experts dedicate this month's program to ephemera. Jill Erickson, of Falmouth Library, and Ken Gloss, proprietor of Brattle Book Shop in Boston,…

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Goldberg, editor and co-founder of The Dispatch, about the choice of Vance, who once described former President Trump using words like “idiot” and “Hitler.”

A range of crime data has been going around to make the argument that Washington, D.C., is — or isn't — safe. We talk to crime experts to make sense of it all.