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  • The bow of the mine countermeasure ship Guardian is removed in March in the Sulu Sea, Philippines. The Guardian ran aground on the Tubbataha Reef in January.
    Report: Accidents Likely In Environmentally Fragile Seas
    The WWF study says that the delicate South China Sea, Mediterranean and North Sea are also among the most prone to shipwrecks.
  • Plug Pulled On California Nuclear Plant, For Good
    Southern California Edison announced Friday morning that it will not restart the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant. The facility has been offline for a year and a half after a leak in a steam tube created safety concerns.
  • <a href="http://www.judyblume.com/about.php">Judy Blume</a> is the author of many books for kids and teens, including <em>Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret</em>, <em>Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing</em> and <em>Blubber</em>. Her 1981 novel<em>, Tiger Eyes, </em>has just been adapted into a movie.
    Judy Blume Hits The Big Screen With 'Tiger Eyes' Adaptation
    With the help of her son Lawrence Blume, Judy Blume has adapted her 1981 novel into a film. The widely beloved coming-of-age author speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about turning the book into a movie, and how the themes in Tiger Eyes echo her own life.
  • Obama Defends NSA Programs Amid Meeting With China's Leader
    President Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping as details emerge about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. Obama defended the programs at an event Friday morning. Audie Cornish talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro.
  • Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge-era Tuol Sleng prison, also known as S-21, at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial in Phnom Penh in 2011.
    Cambodia Moves To Outlaw Denial Of Khmer Rouge Atrocities
    A bill passed by a majority of lawmakers present would mirror similar laws in Europe that make Holocaust denial a crime.
  • Obama Calls Secret Monitoring Programs Legal, Limited
    President Obama spoke for the first time about revelations that his administration has been continuing the monitoring of Internet communications and warehousing of cellphone records that began under President Bush. Obama defended both programs as necessary to keep the country safe and said Congress had been kept fully apprised.
  • Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers in England on the evening of June 5, 1944, as they prepare for the Battle of Normandy.
    The Speech Eisenhower Never Gave On The Normandy Invasion
    The Allied invasion of the French coast of Normandy took place this week in 1944. In case that highly risky invasion had failed, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had drafted a speech taking full responsibility. Fortunately, he never had to deliver it.
  • Prediction
    Our panelists predict who will be the most surprising image the government will find while snooping on our computers.
  • Beyond The Fence
    The love of his life had been married for five years before he met her, and dead for five days before he'd found out. Clandestine lovers weren't notified in the event of a tragedy.
  • Sean Benschop, 42, is facing charges in connection with a fatal building collapse in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
    Construction Worker In Custody For Phila. Building Collapse
    Sean Benschop turned himself in Saturday, a day after police issued a warrant for his arrest. He faces charges in connection to the incident Wednesday that killed six people and injured more than a dozen.
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