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Also: Commemorations of the WW1 Gallipoli offensive are held; prosecutors rest in the penalty phase of the Boston Marathon bombing trial; and China cracks down on funeral strippers.

Also: A federal judge won't overturn his stay on President Obama's immigration action; forecasters are predicting dangerous Midwestern weather; and fix your busted gadget for free at a Repair Fair.

Also: Oil workers are on strike at nine U.S. oil facilities; a large-scale trial of an Ebola vaccine begins in Liberia today; and two rare bronze statutes are identified as Michelangelo's work.

Also: President Obama attends Republic Day celebrations in India; the sons of former Egyptian leader Mubarek are released from prison; and Miss Colombia is the new Miss Universe.

Also: A judge says a jury will decide if Uber drivers are contractors; more snow is forecast for the Northeast; and the "Breaking Bad" creator says enough with throwing pizzas on an Albuquerque roof.

The New York Times reported that Gary Cohn was "deeply upset" about President Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix briefs European leaders on the latest findings in Iraq. Blix refuses to term yesterday's discovery in Iraq of nearly a dozen empty warheads a "smoking gun" that would show Iraq to be in noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. nuclear agency, and chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrive in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials. They are expected to warn Iraq that it must cooperate more intensely with arms inspectors. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye and Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations.

After about six months of work, the TOPS task force is set to vote on potential changes to the popular state scholarship program Wednesday.

From tributes to Philip Glass and French opera to the roaring silences of Morton Feldman and virtuosic choral singing, 2017 proved to be another vibrant year in classical music.