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  • Military authorities are investigating the precise circumstances of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian al-Qaida figure killed Thursday in Iraq. There are reports that Zarqawi initially survived an air strike by U.S. warplanes.
  • Several hours east of Uvalde, the site of a mass shooting at an elementary school, the NRA is holding its annual convention and gun show. The NRA expressed its "deepest sympathies" over the shooting.
  • At a Friday press conference in Uvalde, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pointed to the 2017 mass killing at First Baptist Church Sutherland Springs as proof background checks don't work. A federal court found the opposite.
  • The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says people 60 and older should not start taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes. People ages 40 to 59 should consult their doctor.
  • Philip Wilcox, president for the Foundation for Middle East, talks with Susan Stamberg about efforts to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants. Does the Israeli incursion make a bad situation worse?
  • In the early 1980s, commentator Alexs Pate worked for a company called City Venture Corporation, which pooled big companies' resources to tackle inner-city poverty. It failed. Now, Pate says, it's time to try again to involve corporate America in the inner city. Pate is the author of the novel Amistad and is an assistant professor in African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota.
  • General Motors and Ford are preparing to slash jobs and close plants, while foreign car makers like Toyota are continuing to build new ones in the South. Toyota's Georgetown, Ky., plant is booming -- and still non-union.
  • A roadside bombing outside Fallujah, about 25 miles west of Baghdad, kills 10 U.S. Marines and wounds 11 others. It is the highest one-day death toll for U.S. forces in Iraq since August.
  • After publishing an article by a proponent of intelligent design, scientist Richard Sternberg found himself the target of retaliation at the Smithsonian Institution. His case is probably the best-documented battle in the war between the vast majority of scientists and a tiny insurgency promoting an alternative to evolution.
  • Renee Montagne talks to Scott Silliman, executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, at Duke University, to learn more about how the McCain amendment will affect U.S. policy on interrogation.
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