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At our first-ever NPR Music Listening Party Thursday night, we played new songs in front of an audience of rabid music fans. And the winner was?

With just the sixth female jockey ever and two female trainers, Saturday's 137th running of the Run for the Roses is taking on something of a "year of the woman" theme.

The group of hacker activists has denied involvement in the theft of personal information from Sony customers, but a new report suggests the group might have had some involvement.

Knights are extortionists. Guilds knock down your house if you don't play by their rules. And you have to wait until the black death kills a third of Europe before anything changes.

Yet more woes for Levine, a divisive orchestral foray into Gaza and the auction of one very expensive violin: your weekly classical news wrap-up.

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.