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There are a handful of explanations of where the term might have come from. But one of the more concrete ones is that it came from Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.

To freshen up your DVD queue, this Bob Mondello suggests Anything Goes, a Cole Porter musical that was performed live on TV — with unexpected, yet, hilarious results — by Ethel Merman and Frank Sinatra.

The Dump Biden movement, not that it was ever really much of one, appears to have been officially killed by President Obama who filed officially not just for his re-election bid but Biden's also.

As entitlement programs with recurring sources of funds, Medicare and Medicaid would not be directly affected by a federal government shutdown. But a furlough of federal workers could hurt some program operations, if a shutdown dragged on.

Libya's leader sends a rambling, three-page letter to the U.S. president asking for an end to the NATO-led air campaign, which he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country."

In a rare open disagreement with the Obama administration, Saudi's King Abdullah chastised the president for abandoning Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime ally. The Saudis have since developed a more aggressive regional policy.

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Yale University has failed to properly respond to complaints of sexual harassment and assault. The inquiry comes as the office issues new guidelines on colleges' responsibilities for responding to sexual violence.

Melissa Block speaks with Mohammed Adel, spokesman for the April 6 Movement, about the anniversary of the group's founding and the state of transition in Egypt.

During the first weeks of the uprising, Zawiya was one of the most contested cities. Now, the rebellion here has been crushed, and green pro-Gadhafi banners are everywhere. But beneath the surface calm, resentment seethes, a sign of what is happening in the rest of this country.

The International Criminal Court prosecutor announced last month that he's already building a case against Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. Michele Norris talks with former Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues David Scheffer about Gadhafi's options — and how the ICC is working to prosecute him.