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11:53 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Nine-Year-Old Stands Up To Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church members travel the country holding up signs saying God hates everything from homosexuals to America. Recently, nine-year-old Josef Miles made his own sign which read "God Hates No One," and the photo of him next to the Westboro protesters went viral. Miles and his mother Patty Akrouche talk with host Michel Martin.

Game Changers
11:53 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Keys To Success From BJ's CEO: Be Nice, Speak Up

May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. All month, Tell Me More is talking to people who trace their heritage to that part of the world and have changed the game in various fields.

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Sports
11:53 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Transgender Athletes Pushes For Olympic Spot

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Keelin Godsey competes as a woman but lives as a man, says reporter Pablo Torre.

Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 11:41 pm

Shots - Health Blog
11:48 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Call For Emergency Action On Polio Eradication

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A Pakistani man wheels Jamshid, an 8-year-old girl with polio, around the outskirts of the capital Islamabad last July.

Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 2:04 pm

The drive to wipe polio from the face of the earth is in jeopardy.

Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan are the only three countries left where poliovirus remains endemic. But work to put the paralyzing virus on the ropes there is in danger of failing. Cases in all three countries jumped last year.

Weak public health systems, armed conflicts and corruption have hurt vaccination efforts. Now leading public health officials have proposed an emergency plan of action to get things back on track..

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It's All Politics
11:30 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Reagan Blood Update: It's No Longer For Sale

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The Reagans at the George Washington University Medical Center today, April 3, 1981.

Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 11:36 am

If you had hoped to bid on the medical-lab vial that purportedly contains the dried remains of a blood sample from President Ronald Reagan taken on the day he was nearly assassinated in March 1981, you're out of luck.

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Monkey See
11:03 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Your New 'American Idol' Is (Surprise!) A Laid-Back Dude With An Acoustic Guitar

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Phillip Phillips was crowned the winner of American Idol on Wednesday night.

Being named "Phillip Phillips" kind of makes Phillip Phillips sound like he was created like a Cabbage Patch Kid, and after his manufacture, someone said, "What should we call him?" And somebody else said, "Phillip!" And then the first person said, "Phillip what?" But by then, the well of creativity had run dry. "Phillip ... Phillips!"

A star is born.

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The Two-Way
10:08 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Ted, What Have You Been Doing With Yourself? Unabomber, You Say?

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Unabomber Ted Kaczynski being led into a Montana court in 1996.

No, the Unabomber won't be attending his 50th class reunion at Harvard this week.

But Ted Kaczynski has updated his former classmates about what he's been up to all these years.

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The Two-Way
7:28 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Man Has Implicated Himself In Etan Patz Disappearance, NY Police Say

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Etan Patz, and the "lost child" poster issued after his 1979 disappearance.

Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 9:13 pm

Update at 7:13 p.m. ET: Police Announce Arrest Of Suspect:

At a press conference in New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police had arrested Pedro Hernandez in the killing of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who disappeared as he was walking to school in 1979.

Officials say Hernandez, a former convenience store worker, confessed to police that he suffocated the boy, placing his body in a cardboard box. Etan's body has never been found.

Kelly said Hernandez also took police to the site where he contends the killing occurred.

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