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  • Mayor Bobby Tufts of Dorset, Minn.
    4-Year-Old Re-Elected 'Mayor' Of Minnesota Town
    Bobby Tufts' second job will be at a pre-school. As a student. For the second year in a row he won the mayoral contest in tiny Dorset, Minn., which actually doesn't have its own government.
  • A spider monkey sits inside its cage last month at the Simon Bolivar Zoo, which recently celebrated its 97th anniversary, in San Jose, Costa Rica.
    Costa Rica Will Do Away With Caged Animals At Its Zoos
    The minister for the environment said it was time for the country to move beyond caging wild animals and seek a more natural experience.
  • NFL: Is The Game Getting Safer?
    As fans and teams get ready for another season of football, a new study sheds light on game safety. Host Michel Martin talks with Jesse David of Edgeworth Economics about whether efforts to cut down on serious injuries are getting results.
  • Sikh Says No Room For Hate, A Year After Temple Shooting
    One year ago today, a gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple before turning the gun on himself. Host Michel Martin talks to a member of the temple, Mandeep Kaur, about how Sikhs have turned to their faith to recover.
  • Italian police officer Giovanni Palatucci has long been credited with saving the lives of 5,000 Jews during World War II. But new research discredits these claims — and even suggests that he willingly extorted Jewish prisoners and confiscated their goods.
    World War II Researchers Say 'Italian Schindler' Was A Myth
    There's no proof that Giovanni Palatucci saved the lives of 5,000 Jews, say historians who studied a trove of wartime documents. Supporters of Palatucci are fighting back, as Holocaust museums pull exhibits on the Italian policeman who had been on the track to sainthood.
  • Palestinian Bashir Tamimi, 57, drinks water from a spring on land that he says belongs to his family. Teenagers from a nearby Israeli settlement built collection pools and brought in picnic tables when they saw no one using the spring. It has now become a source of conflict.
    A West Bank Spring At The Center Of Deadly Struggle
    Israeli settlers turned the area near the spring into a picnic spot. A local Palestinian says the land has been in his family for generations. The fight is symbolic of the much larger battle over West Bank land.
  • In Hyderabad, Osmania University students celebrate the announcement of the separate Indian state of Telangana, on July 30. India's ruling Congress Party approved a resolution earlier that day to create the new state, amid fears that the decision could spark violence in the region.
    Why India's Next State Is Not Likely To Be The Last
    India has just approved plans to create a new state. Critics worry that the decision has opened a Pandora's box by fanning the flames of other long-simmering separatist movements, some of which are already demonstrating for their own states.
  • The Effort To Write Laws For Your Digital Life After Death
    Without uniformity around who controls digital assets after you die, families have to rely on Internet companies' varying terms of agreements. It can be a maddening lack of certainty in an already difficult time.
  • Tawana Brawley, with the Rev. Al Sharpton, in 1988.
    15 Years Later, Tawana Brawley Has Paid 1 Percent Of Penalty
    As a teenager, Brawley said she had been attacked and raped by white men. The young African-American's accusations hit front pages, especially after Rev. Al Sharpton took up her case. When a jury said the tale was a hoax, one of the men who was accused sued. Now, he's getting some of the money.
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    The Hackable Japanese Toilet Comes With An App To Track Poop
    The news that a Japanese toilet can be remotely controlled by an Android app got us curious about what else was possible with this toilet technology.
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