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Asked to speak in character, the actor got a little too much into the role on live national TV. He immediately apologized, as did show host Elizabeth Vargas. "Next time I'm on this show, there will be a 7-second delay," Hanks said.

President Obama and Governor Romney have discussed the middle class a great deal during the debates, but the candidates haven't spent nearly as much time talking about the poor. To get a read on the state of poverty in America, host Michel Martin talks with Irwin Redlener, of the Children's Health Fund and Timothy Noah, a columnist for The New Republic.

Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., says there isn't any need for women to seek medically necessary abortions, because of modern technology and science.

Thanks to vigorous efforts to eradicate the poliovirus through vaccination, there are only three countries on the face of the earth where polio is still endemic.

Updated with video: The skeleton of Big Tex is being removed from Fair Park after a fire consumed the mammoth icon of the State Fair of Texas this…

Presidential debate No. 2 is in the books, and the consensus is that — unlike debate No. 1 — President Obama came prepared for battle. For all the talk about "binders full of women," and what was said when after the events in Benghazi, Libya, Obama and Mitt Romney both made their cases. NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin have the latest political roundup.

The country's foreign minister says Turkey has done its best on the diplomatic front but the only solution it sees now is a "humanitarian intervention." Ahmet Davutoglu compared the situation to that of Bosnia.

The micro-blogging site has begun implementing a policy of weeding out and removing offensive content from its site at foreign governments' requests.

We're all in mourning for Big Tex, the State Fair of Texas giant who burned today. (But fear not, Tex-a-holics: The fair says he'll be back and better…

When you go in for a mammogram, you now have a choice to make. Approved last year by the Food and Drug Administration, a 3-D mammogram is touted as a more…