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The Washington Post is reporting the departures would gut much of the agency's upper management following security lapses that led to harsh criticism of the presidential protection service.

The primary win may propel Joe Ganim, 55, back into office in mostly Democratic Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, five years after he was released from a federal prison.

Worriers' Lauren Denitzio has signed to SideOneDummy for a new album due out this fall. Hear a fuzzy and forlorn new single from the punk band.

Dunst calls The Power of the Dog a cinematic love letter to her children. Maureen Corrigan reviews The Latinist, by Mark Prins. Christopher Mims goes inside the global supply chain in Arriving Today.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the shifting tides over teaching evolution in the Kansas schoolrooms.

Over the past few decades, iconic musician Lou Reed has worked with a gallery of talented visual and performing artists — Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, his girlfriend Laurie Anderson, just to name a few. Now he's tackled what he says is his toughest challenge yet: dramatizing the works of Edgar Allan Poe in music, sound and spoken voice. Hear samples from Reed's latest CD, The Raven.

Amazon.com has rounded up more than 1,000 titles of classic literature and is offering them as a single purchase for just under $8,000. The Penguin Classics Collection weighs 700 pounds -- but delivery is free.

The United States is stepping up its military activity in Africa in an effort to combat terrorism and protect vital oil reserves off Africa's west coast. NPR's Jason Beaubien has a two-part report.

A government review says most of the dead were killed by gunshot wounds to the head or chest. Over 3,000 people were wounded.

The move would affect chimps living in captivity and used either as pets or for medical research. Chimps living in the wild were listed as endangered 13 years ago.