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Ed Gordon speaks with actress and comedian Wanda Sykes about her new film acting alongside Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda, who's acting in her first film role in 15 years.

The largest funeral in modern history takes place in Rome on a windy, cool morning. The funeral for Pope John Paul II begins nine days of mourning for one of the Catholic Church's longest-serving pontiffs. The homily was delivered by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, one of the pope's closest friends and advisers.

General Motors pulls its ads in the Los Angeles Times after the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic, Dan Neil, called for the resignation of GM's chief executive in a column this week. Neil and other industry analysts say the company is falling dangerously behind its foreign competitors, especially in developing hybrid cars. Paul Eisenstein, publisher of TheCarConnection.com, an Internet magazine, discusses the controversy.

Graphic designer Nigel Holmes creates pictorial explanations of the mundane and the offbeat: Pouring a beer, changing a tire... perhaps performing a facelift. Some of his favorites are in a book called Wordless Diagrams.

The Nasdaq securities exchange announces it will acquire the firm Instinet, which owns an important electronic trading system. The deal is valued at more than $1.8 billion, and follows the New York Stock Exchange's merger with an electronic trading firm.

Tutoring is a $4 billion business, and that figure is going up. Once an upper-class phenomenon, tutoring is spreading, thanks to competitive pressures and the No Child Left Behind law. And some children even find the extra lessons enjoyable.

About 1,000 people have been evacuated from a town in Southern California after a landslide Wednesday. Multimillion-dollar houses in Laguna Beach were destroyed as residents escaped. Meanwhile, construction continues on new and glamorous homes in the area. Member station KPCC's Rob Schmitz reports.

The phrase "young, gifted and black" reverberated out of the Civil Rights movement -- News & Notes begins a series of profiles of a new generation to watch with a look at artist Kehinde Wiley.

The announcement, which effectively reverses a Trump-era rule, springs from last summer's landmark Supreme Court decision banning employment discrimination against LGBTQ people.

Senate passed by unanimous consent legislation that would provide round the clock security to Supreme Court justices' families after protests outside some members of the court's homes.