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Ten months after U.S. Marines effectively leveled Fallujah in a major counter-insurgency offensive, NPR's Anne Garrels visits the city and has this report.

The authors of a new book, Hungry Planet, set out to see how families in 24 regions feed themselves each week. They wanted to see how globalization, migration and other factors affected the diets of communities around the world.

People think of Las Vegas as Sin City, a version of Disneyland, or maybe a little of both. Director Stephen Ives talks about Las Vegas: An Unconventional History, his new PBS documentary.

Thomas P.M. Barnett has a new book out. Blueprint for Action follows Barnett's best-selling book The Pentagon's New Map. Both books offer Barnett's view on global security issues and strategies.

Families who don't share meals at home are missing something. And they're not much fun at a restaurant, either. Chef Gillian Clark, who runs the Colorado Kitchen in Washington, D.C., shares her thoughts on family dining.

Vice President Dick Cheney says he did not know Ambassador Joseph Wilson. But Cheney's life intersected with Wilson's during the first Iraq war. Wilson is the husband of Valerie Plame, the undercover CIA agent whose name was leaked to the press.

Civil rights leaders and callers remember Rosa Parks. She died Monday night at her home in Detroit, at age 92.

Thousands of tourists remain stranded at beach resorts on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula after Hurricane Wilma. Emergency crews are trying to reach outlying areas. In hard-hit Cancun, long lines have formed for water and food as truckloads of army and police try to pass flooded roads to restore security.

University of Minnesota students who served in Iraq are setting up a veterans' assistance center at the school to help other vets make the transition from the military to academia. The school hopes the volunteer effort will help reverse a post-Sept. 11 decline in veteran-student retention. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.

In an Instagram post, Britney Spears and fiancé Sam Asghari told fans that she had a miscarriage.