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Workers in New Orleans were cleaning out storm drains to help the city's drainage system and they found something unique to the city: 93,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads clogging up the drains.

President Trump will faced questions of about his reported move to fire special counsel Robert Mueller ahead of an economics-focused speech to the global business elite in Davos, Switzerland.

President Trump delivers a speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday laying out his argument for why the U.S. is an attractive place for foreign investors.

A report from The New York Times says that President Trump ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller to be fired last June, but backed down when the top White House lawyer threatened to quit.

After a month of record rainfall in France, rivers have flowed over their banks and nearly half the country is on flood alert. In Paris, the Seine river is 19 feet above its normal level.

Fallout over the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal continued this week. Nassar, the former doctor for the American gymnastics team, was sentenced to as many as 175 years in prison.

Anderson's new film Phantom Thread landed six Oscar nominations. Critic Maureen Corrigan says The Perfect Nanny is a guilty pleasure. John Leland followed six people above the age of 85 for one year.

A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan has killed at least 95 and wounded even more. NPR's Scott Simon talks with photojournalist Andrew Quilty who arrived at the site of the blast within minutes.

The civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" is now in the public domain. The music publishers that copyrighted the song in the 1960s settled the lawsuit on Friday.

The "Album of the Year" award should indicate the year's best music. But Washington Post music critic Chris Richards tells NPR's Michel Martin that the Grammys are bad at predicting album popularity.