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In this final round, contestants answer trivia where every answer ends with the word or sound "day."

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that Russia's President Vladimir Putin has declared today a day of mourning in honor of the 118 men who perished when the Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea.

Jennifer Griffin reports on the day of mourning in Lebanon. Even as services were being held, Israeli shells were falling near Cana, the site of last Thursday's shelling, where some 100 refugees were killed.

Commentator Donna D'Amico Mayer chronicles a day in the life of a nurse in a psychiatric emergency room. She calls it "the emergency room of the soul," where patients don't get cures, but are kept safe...at least for the moment.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that US planes flying over the extended "no-fly" zone in southern Iraq deflected challenges from Iraqi MiGs and one surface-to-air missile radar today, the second day of US cruise missile attacks on Iraqi air defense systems.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports there was no let-up in the violence in the West Bank and Gaza Friday despite an Israeli decision to seal off the Palestinian territories..

Bob Mondello reviews the film Thirteen Days, starring Bruce Greenwood as President Kennedy and Kevin Costner as a presidential advisor. The movie is based on the book The Kennedy Tapes--Instead the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. The story starts in October of 1962, when President John F. Kennedy announced the U.S. response to the presence of medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. For the following week, Soviet military vessels raced toward the Caribbean as the rest of the world held its breath. The film opened today in New York and Los Angeles.

NPR's John Ydstie reports on "tax freedom day" the day the Tax Foundation tells us is the day we begin working for ourselves and not to pay taxes. This year the average American has to work until May 7th in order to satisfy his tax liabilites, according to the Foundation. But critics argue the concept of a tax freedom day makes little sense...since your taxes are used to provide services you use year-round.

Scott with some thoughts about Inauguration Day.

On this Father's Day, essayist Andy Borowitz compares himself to the model father of the moment, Ozzy Osbourne.