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Dozens of Andy Warhol's works went on the block and fetched, as always, eye-popping prices. A portrait of the late actress Liz Taylor went for $27 million. A self-portrait sold for $27.5 million.

Sen. Richard Lugar, the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, talks to Steve Inkseep about funding for Afghanistan and Pakistan. This week the committee is debating funding for the Afghan war.

There's a slow-moving airplane flying over Europe. It's going less than 50 miles an hour and is running on solar power. The single-seat plane took off from Switzerland Friday morning and is expected to reach Brussels in the evening. The plane, called Solar Impulse, has the wing span of a Boeing 777 and the power of a small motorcycle.

Final preparations are being made for what’s believed to be Lexington’s first downtown chicken coop tour. It’s called ‘Tour De Coops’ and the Sunday…

Wellington R. Burt left behind a fortune when he died in 1919, but his kids never saw the money. His will said the money would not be distributed until 21 years after his last grandchild died. The condition was finally met last month, and a dozen descendants split about $100 million.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers considers flooding farmland to save cities on Mississippi River; Taliban claims suicide bombings in Pakistan to avenge Osama bin Laden's death; Senate Ethics Committee says former Senator John Ensign broke rules; John Waite costumed to run for Spokane City Council

A kerfuffle broke out this week when the rapper Common was invited to poetry night at the White House. But John McWhorter of The New Republic argues that Common is an artist and poet worthy of appreciation, and that his appearance at the White House should be a positive one.

Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) declared his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination today on ABC's Good Morning America, telling host George Stephanopoulos his views are increasingly popular:

Higher prices for gasoline accounted for almost half of the 0.4 percent increase last month.

The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to open the Morganza Spillway near Baton Rouge on Saturday. Opening the gates for the first time in 38 years will unleash the river on a wild ride, putting hundreds of thousands of acres and several thousand homes at risk of flooding.