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  • NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman speaks with guest host Jacki Lyden about the latest developments for the soldier accused in the killing of 16 Afghan civilians.
  • NPR's Mike Pesca has a recap of Friday's NCAA tournament action, in rhyme.
  • Despite the excitement surrounding actor and activist George Clooney's visit to Washington, D.C., this week, there's nothing new about stars testifying before Congress. As celebrities get more involved in politics, can their star power still draw an audience for a worthy cause?
  • The popular public radio show This American Life has retracted its story about a one-man show concerned with conditions at the Chinese factories that manufacture Apple products. NPR's David Folkenflik talks with guest host Jacki Lyden about the different standards of journalism and theater.
  • Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' commanding officer once recommended him for a medal of valor after a major battle in Iraq. Bales is being held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians last week.
  • The financial crash in Spain left many empty lots that were supposed to be building sites. Some Spaniards have begun growing vegetables in places where condos were never built.
  • What if foxes could be trained and domesticated, much the way dogs were domesticated thousands of years ago? A nearly 50-year experiment in Russia is aiming at just that.
  • Leonard Wood was a U.S. general and doctor who and a very close friend of Theodore Roosevelt. He was a Republican presidential candidate in 1920 and was thought to be a shoo-in, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding. Newt Gingrich says his rival Mitt Romney is the weakest front-runner since Wood.
  • There has been a rise in popularity in Greece of extreme leftist and ultra-right parties who are strongly opposed to the painful austerity measures that have been imposed as part of the international bailout.
  • When the Supreme Court hears arguments over President Obama's health care law next week, one item on the table will be a program that has been in place for nearly 50 years: Medicaid. The program is already a sore issue in Florida, which is one of the states fighting the health care law.
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