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State fair season brings a lot of weird and fried food. The Indiana State Fair decided on spaghetti-and-meatballs ice cream as its official food — gelato noodles, strawberry-tomato sauce , chocolate meatballs and a sprinkle of white chocolate "cheese." The Iowa State Fair — home of last year's hit, deep-fried butter — now offers a double-bacon corn dog.

Payers recently gathered in Toronto for the Jamaica Olympic Ice Hockey Federation trials. The Toronto Sun is accusing Jamaica of "poaching" Canadians of Jamaican descent.

With the Polar Ice Cap melting and geopolitical boundaries still shifting, map-making is an painfully ephemeral undertaking. Undeterred, the cartographers at the Oxford Press have produced a new edition of the Atlas of the World.

Noah visits the office of Second Harvest, in Chicago. Second Harvest operates a network of food banks around the country, reaching, it's estimated, 26 million hungry people a year, in shelters, daycare centers, food pantry operations. Mary Picket and Debra Keegan of Second Harvest explain how it works: Second Harvets recieves a donation of ice cream or cereal or surplus salmon form Alaska, lets the food banks know by fax, then arranges shipping. The food banks pay only the shipping costs.

Choco Taco is a waffle cone folded like taco shell, stuffed with vanilla ice cream, draped in fudge and sprinkled with peanuts. It'll be shipped to you for free, if you're willing to pay $25,000.

Reaction is coming in after the Obama administration's unusual move releasing immigration detainees due to budget cuts. An Arizona sheriff is blasting the sequestration gridlock for undermining the safety of local communities. Immigrant rights groups, however, say it shouldn't take a budget crisis to do what they think is right.

Mountains on Pluto look strikingly similar to white-capped peaks on Earth, but these cold, alien mountains got whitened in a completely different way.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Michael Evans, mayor of Mansfield, Texas, about the arrival of a potentially dangerous storm, and what's changed since last February's catastrophic ice and snow storm.

Robert Siegel talks with Charles Snee, senior editor at Linn's Stamp News, about the recently rediscovered "Ice House" envelope, believed to be lost for 38 years and recently rediscovered in Chicago. It has the only known cover of an 1869 Abraham Lincoln 90-cent stamp.

The latest photos show ice plains that appear to be only 100 million years old and a hilly region that could be what is left when surrounding material is eroded away.