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She sings the jingles from many familiar TV ads and provides backup vocals for hundreds of Nashville studio recordings. Brahms and bluegrass, too. Kathy Chiavola's most recent release, From Where I Stand, is a tribute to her late partner in music and in life, Randy Howard. Host Lisa Simeone visits with Chiavola Saturday on Weekend All Things Considered. (12:15)

Guest host Lynn Neary speaks with our movie-music guide Andy Trudeau about this year's crop of Oscar-nominated scores. This week: James Horner's A Beautiful Mind (Decca Records 440 016 191-2) and John Williams A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Warner Bros. 9 48096-2).

After the chaos of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Southern California, seismologists created an Internet-based sensing system to let emergency crews spot the hardest-hit areas within minutes. NPR's Andy Bowers reports that the system also lets people share their quake experience online.

Sandy Tolan reports for American Radio Works on the long Middle Eastern history of animosity toward the West, and America in particular. He says the Arab suspicion of the West reaches back to the days of the Christian Crusades, and has been compounded by more recent history, such as American support for Israel. There is a tension in modern Jordan and Egypt, for example, between a sense of great pride in Arab culture and a sense of defeat by the culture of the West. American films and freedom are admired by many, but American foreign policy is not. American Radio Works in the documentary project of National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio.

NATO holds an emergency summit in Brussel. Biden's Supreme Court nominee faces a second day of questions from a Senate panel. Legal fights over Ohio's redistricting are about to come to a head.

While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.

President Biden said the U.S. will take in up to 100,000 people fleeing Ukraine. He's discussing new kinds of military equipment to give Kyiv. Allies are also cracking down on Russian gold sales.

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, who served under the Clinton administration, has died.

There were balloons, butterflies and flowers to signify optimism and, when diplomatic talks were going slowly, crabs and turtles to indicate frustration.

As Democrats prepare for next year's mid-term elections, some want the party to embrace abortion opponents. Others argue reproductive rights are a non-negotiable Democratic value.