News is trickling out that General Motors could shut down some factories for up to nine weeks. What will this mean for the company, its workers, suppliers and dealers? We speak to Micheline Maynard of the New York Times.

Pakistan sent paramilitary troops to a strategically important district that was overrun by the Taliban this week. The Obama White House warns that the insurgency now poses an "existential threat," to Pakistan. The BBC's Jill McGivering assesses the impact of the insurgency and found a growing threat of civil war.

We look at the deeply troubling and rare phenomenon of family murder suicides. According to the nonprofit gun-control advocacy group, the Violence Policy Center, there are two or three familicides in a given six month period. But there has been a recent uptick. Dr. Richard Gelles, author of many books on family violence and Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, comments.

We hear from listeners about recent stories on breastfeeding, Christian seders, and more.

Only A Game host Bill Littlefield joins us to talk playoffs.