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  • The National Museum of the American Latino in Washington won't be finished for a decade. For now, a pop-up exhibit at the National Mall highlights Latino history. (Story aired on WeSAT on 6/18/22.)
  • Any fan of '80s music knows this telephone number: 867-5309. It was immortalized in the 1982 hit "867-5309/Jenny" by the band Tommy Tutone. For Spencer Potter, it is more than a tune: It's his phone number. Now the 28-year-old disc jockey is moving to New York, selling his disc jockey business and that phone number on eBay.
  • Rod Lurie's back-from-adversity movie centers on fathers and sons, losers and winners. Samuel L. Jackson is a broken-down former prizefighter, Josh Hartnett the sportswriter who finds him homeless and senses a scoop.
  • Brian Dunworth plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
  • Host Bob Edwards talks to Edward Goldberg, Director of the Medici Archive Project, about his work with the Medici family archive in Florence, Italy. The archive is a collection of virtually every letter sent or received by the Medici court during its rule from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s. The correspondence reveals a great deal about Italian art and early modern European history. Goldberg and his colleagues are documenting and digitizing each letter, and hope to have the project complete by 2012. (6:28) For more on the project, check out our Medici Archive Web page.
  • The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 204,000 of the children's weighted blankets, which were being exclusively sold at Target.
  • The dispute follows Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The 1.6 billion euro helicopter carriers are sitting in French dockyards.
  • The more than two-decade-old investigation into who killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, in 1981 has come to a close. Police in Florida say Ottis Toole, a serial killer who died in prison in 1996, decapitated Adam Walsh.
  • Japan's main index fell more than 6 percent. South Korea was down more than 3 percent. Hong Kong's main stock average fell nearly 5 percent, partly on grim economic news out of China. The drop in world markets follows a nearly 8 percent plunge in the Dow, after the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a report declaring that the U.S. officially is in recession.
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