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Fresh Air Remembers War Reporter Anthony Shadid

New York Times war correspondent Anthony Shadid, a frequent guest on Fresh Air, died Thursday after apparently suffering a fatal asthma attack in Syria, where he was reporting on the political uprising. Fresh Air remembers Shadid with excerpts from his December 2011 appearance on the show.

Sucre in New Orleans is one of many bakeries that leaves the plastic baby out of the king cake.

Is That A Plastic Baby Jesus In My Cake?

How a mysterious traveling salesman made a porcelain baby Jesus a Mardi Gras tradition.

#Feb17: A First Visit To Revolution Central: The Benghazi Courthouse

Celebrations abound in Benghazi, but the courthouse is special. It was the scene of some of the first protests in Libya.

Mitt Romney works Thursday in Michigan aboard his campaign bus, which displays a poster for his late father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney. Despite deep roots in the state, Romney finds himself battling a candidate who has barely visited.

'Sugar Daddies' And Debates Changing All The Rules

Before setting foot in Michigan, Rick Santorum was leading in GOP polls there. It's the clearest illustration yet that the traditional rules that determine primary winners have been upended by factors that are new this time around, such as superPACs and the proliferation of candidate debates.

In Sting, Feds Arrest Man Allegedly Plotting Suicide Bombing In Washington

The man was under FBI surveillance and police say he was planning to bomb the U.S. Capitol in a suicide attack.

Murdoch Promises Sunday Edition At Besieged Sun Tabloid

Murdoch tells staff at The Sun, where ten current and former journalists have been arrested in recent weeks, that the paper will roll out a Sunday edition "soon."

Shadid won two Pulitzer prizes for international reporting, in 2004 and 2010. Here, he poses on the campus of Brown University in the year of his second win.

A Passion To Bear Witness: Why War Correspondents Take The Risk

NPR's Deborah Amos, who covers the Middle East, ponders the question, "Is a story worth dying for?"

A health worker injects a woman with a shot of Depo Provera, a quarterly contraceptive injection, at a health clinic in Busia, Uganda, in 2009.

WHO Affirms Use Of Birth Control Injections After Weighing HIV Risks

The WHO upheld its guidelines on the safety of hormone injections for contraception yesterday, despite some data that users are at increased risk of HIV transmission. An expert panel says the evidence isn't solid yet, and at-risk couples should use a second method, like condoms, for HIV prevention.

San Joaquin sheriff detectives sift for human remains that were excavated from an abandoned ranch near Linden, Calif., on Sunday. Authorities say Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog wantonly murdered an unknown number of victims before their arrest in 1999. Now, one of the convicted killers is leading investigators to burial sites that have yielded hundreds of bones.

For Cash, Murderer Leads Police To Victims' Remains

Authorities in California are excavating the gruesome remains of murder victims who were buried many years ago by a pair of convicted murderers dubbed the "Speed Freak Killers." The case raises some thorny ethical and legal issues: Should convicted criminals be able to benefit from their wrongdoing?

Expect the rest of 2012 to bring more political symbolism like Thursday's House hearing on birth control and religious freedom than actual passage of major legislation that solves Americans' problems.

With Payroll Tax Cut Done, Is It Do-Nothing Congress Time? It Depends

Whether a Congress can be defined as do-something or do-nothing is really in the eye of the beholder. If you judge Congress by its ability to pass landmark legislation or bills that address the real needs of the U.S. population, then you likely won't be giving Congress over the next year high marks for accomplishing much.

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