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Job growth was better than expected in April, and one area where hiring continues to be surprisingly strong is manufacturing. Small- to medium-sized manufacturers around the country are taking advantage of a weaker dollar and demand for precision parts to increase their exports and add new jobs. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

The coroner investigating the deaths of the victims of the bomb attacks in London on July 7, 2005, ruled on Friday that the 52 people who died were unlawfully killed by four British Muslim men who were inspired by Osama bin Laden. The coincidence of the verdict and the recent killing of bin Laden has led to some reflection in Britain about the four attacks on London's transport system that day. Vicki Barker reports.

Friday night in the NHL saw the Detroit Red Wings and the Philadelphia Flyers, two very good teams, end their Stanley Cup bids without putting up much of a fight. Host Scott Simon talks to NPR's Mike Pesca about the week's NBA and NHL playoff games and the Kentucky Derby.

David Brodeur was killed last week along with seven other U.S. service members when an Afghan pilot he was helping to train opened fire at a meeting. Brodeur's childhood friends in Massachusetts remember the fun but dutiful boy who fell in love with flying by going to air shows. He leaves behind two children and his wife, who's been planning the funeral amid news that Osama bin Laden, the seminal reason for American troops in Afghanistan, has been killed. Curt Nickisch reports.

It's "one of the most complex relationships that we have in the whole constellation of diplomatic relations," says former U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin. And, she says, the killing of Osama bin Laden could lead the two countries to renegotiate that relationship.

Like Sly Stone and Stevie Wonder back in the day, Saadiq draws from styles and sounds that came before him, which can trigger remembered emotions while also creating new ones.

The question of whether or not a registered lobbyist should serve on Kentucky’s State Board of Elections remains unresolved. Kentucky Public Radio’s Tony…

More people than ever are underwater on their mortgages — they owe more than their home is worth.

Dallas Wiens looks nothing like he did before Nov. 13, 2008, when a horrific accident obliterated all his features and left him blind. Now, he has a new face after a transplant at a Boston hospital. And he's heading home to Texas.

NPR's John Burnett recently picked up hitchhiker Dereck "Chip" Williams, 23, in West Texas. Williams, who was on his way to British Columbia with a backpack and a new fiddle, says it's good for a hitchhiker to smile: "You don't want to be a bucket of misery on the side of the road."