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Verizon Communications says it will buy the online pioneer AOL for about $4.4 billion. The transaction will be completed this summer, and AOL will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon.

When people in Buenos Aires are thirsty for the American soda, they have long ordered something they call "Pecsi." Not "Pepsi." The idiosyncratic pronunciation has become the focus of a Pepsi ad campaign.

Weekend Edition Sunday begins a four-part series that strives to answer the question: What are the best recordings yet to be released on compact disc? Today, Anthony DeCurtis, contributing editor with Rolling Stone magazine, suggests Buckingham Nicks (that's Lindsey and Stevie, respectively); Bill Ferris, founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, suggests Mississippi Folk Voices featuring bluesman James "Son" Thomas, and Tim Page, classical music critic with The Washington Post, suggests Carl Friedberg Plays Schumann and Brahms.

Here & Now's Lisa Mullins talks with Bloomberg Gadfly's Michael Regan about what's happening.

The highlight of Brazil's Carnival are the Samba parades, where 12 teams — called schools — compete for the top prize in Rio de Janeiro Monday night.

Kahlo painted Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia) in 1928 and sold it in 1929. Conservators at the Museum of Fine Arts say the maids in the portrait may have cared for Kahlo after a violent car crash.

The New York Times has killed its sports department, saying coverage will be drawn from its online sports site, The Athletic. It acquired the site last year for $550 million.

A new study says sixth-graders do better when they attend K-8 schools, so they're not the youngest.

California's gas prices, well above the national average, have gone into overdrive, topping $6 a gallon in October. Why is gas so expensive in a state that's synonymous with the automobile?

Rep. George Miller (D-CA), tapped by Nancy Pelosi to head up some of the Democractic Party's most important policy initiatives, looks ahead to what Democrats will try to accomplish now that they have control of Congress.