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Health, energy and the environment, science and foreign assistance were among the areas that saw larger reductions in the fiscal 2011 budget request. Some of President Obama's pet projects, such as "Race to the Top" aid for public schools, managed to avoid the ax.

The notorious Boston mob boss accused of murdering 19 people appeared in Los Angeles federal court with his girlfriend and waived his right to a removal hearing. Bulger, 81, was arrested in Santa Monica after an epic 16-year manhunt. Once a top-secret FBI informant in Boston, he later corrupted his federal handlers and then went into hiding.

As the top lawyer for the Obama State Department, Harold Koh is defending a lot of things that surprise his friends on the left — including U.S. involvement in Libya, and the use of American drones that target people in Pakistan and Yemen.

Only one woman made the top 10 in Sports Illustrated's 2000 list of the 100 greatest athletes of the 20th century. Don Van Natta Jr. tells her story in Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias..

Brad Stevens, coach of the Butler Bulldogs men's college basketball team, is headed for a bigger stage and bigger bucks in the NBA. NPR's Mike Pesca talks with Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin about why Stevens is a coach with indisputable, quantifiable worth.

As Peggy Olson on AMC's drama series, the actress has learned about her character's personality and development episode by episode, script by script, just like those of us who watch the show on TV. And she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that she prefers it that way.

After Republicans unexpectedly picked up at least eight seats, House Democrats are still sorting out what went wrong. The party leadership must balance clashing priorities in the next term.

Avril Haines, the first woman nominated to the top intelligence post, took a strange path to this job. She studied judo in Japan, physics in college, and rebuilt a plane that she later crash-landed.

Christopher Krebs, the former top cybersecurity official in the U.S., talked with NPR about how the hack happened and how the U.S. should respond.

Poutine, at its simplest, is french fries, cheese curds and gravy. In Chicago, 11 restaurants recently pitted their own variations on the Canadian late-night dish against one another.