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Former Delaware Valley High School wrestler and right-wing provocateur Jake Lang pleaded guilty last week to threatening to harm Washington, D.C., police officer during a celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets always insisted that he did not have regrets.

It's been seven years since detective Jane Tennison last applied her world-weary determination to solving a case on Masterpiece Theatre's Prime Suspect. But on April 18, acclaimed British actress Helen Mirren revives Tennison's character, returning to PBS in Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness. Mirren speaks with NPR's Lynn Neary.

The Labor Department releases the latest unemployment figures Friday. Economists are bracing for the report to show that companies slashed more than 300,000 jobs in November. And the overall unemployment rate may have risen to 6.8 percent.

In Japan, a country with a unique market in luxury fruit, a black-skinned watermelon sold for $6,100. An official at a Japanese agricultural co-op says it's the highest price ever paid for a watermelon — though a pair of cantaloupes sold last month for $23,500.

Consumer prices soared to the highest level in six months in May, as Americans paid more for gasoline and energy, a government report said Friday. The consumer price index rose 0.6 percent, the biggest hike since November.

Relatives of miners killed in the collapse at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine spoke Wednesday at a hearing before the House Education and Labor Committee. Six miners were trapped in a cave-in Aug. 6, and three rescuers died trying to save them.

The new Packard Campus houses the Library of Congress' entire audio-visual collection — more than 6 million items. The facility is equipped with technology to preserve and duplicate film, video and sound recordings, and make them accessible to the public.

Wynton Marsalis has been playing the trumpet since he was 6, and won his first Grammy at 20 and has 9 total. He's also the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize. His latest album is The Magic Hour. (This Interview first aired Dec. 7, 1994.)

The Economist's Big Mac Index compares the price of a Big Mac in dozens of countries, using the hamburger to draw conclusions about the strength of each country's currency. In a recession in which no one relishes a strong currency, China's Big Mac remains unsustainably cheap, and at $6, Switzerland's is wildly overpriced.