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Judge Neil Gorsuch is expected to face several days of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Steve Inskeep talks to Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who's on the committee.

From around the classical internet, all the week's news that's fit to link.

Last week, the International Olympic Committee voted to lose the sport of wrestling from its games by 2020. Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mike Pesca to delve into whether there was any logic to the IOC's decision.

John Thavis covered the Vatican from Rome for nearly 30 years while working for the Catholic News Service. In his new book, The Vatican Diaries, he describes a place much less organized and hierarchical than the public imagines.

Erick Erickson editor of RedState.com says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney needs to "own" the comments he made in a video released by the liberal publication Mother Jones. In the secretly taped video, Romney was speaking to donors and said President Obama's supporters are "dependent on the government" and "pay no income tax." Steve Inskeep talks to Erickson about his reactions to the video.

Last fall, when "Occupy" protests were cropping up around the country and world — emulating what started on Wall Street — Melissa Block talked with two of those thousands of protesters. Jason Potteiger in Boston and Sam Abrahamson in Chicago shared their reasons for taking to the street. She checks in with them again about where their movement is now and what they feel it's accomplished.

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Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief looks at the world of the controversial church and the life of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986.

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans presents a range of real-life scenarios that give visitors a sense of the ethical — and often dangerous — decisions soldiers and civilians were forced to make during the war.

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