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Four local television stations were invited to the White House Monday to interview President Obama. The president's political strategy is to leap over the national press corps and into people's living room through local stations.

Nationwide ticket seller Ticketmaster has announced plans to roll out a new system this year. It's called flexible, or variable, pricing. It means tickets prices for concerts and other events would vary, depending on demand. Airlines and some sports teams already use a similar system.

Volkswagen showed off its new more masculine Beetle Monday. The vehicle has been reconfigured to make it a little less of a cute bug and more of a sports car.

William Donald Schaefer, the famously feisty mayor of Baltimore and later the governor of Maryland, died Monday at the age of 89. As mayor, he used any method he could to transform a crumbling, post-industrial Baltimore into a tourist destination.

The Syrian government's crackdown against demonstrators hasn't deterred them from taking to the streets. There are reports that security forces have fired on a large protest in the country's third-largest city Homs. Philip Sands, of The National, and English-language newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates, talks to Renee Montagne about the protests.

Waitz won the New York City Marathon nine times and a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. And she was one of the pioneers of the women's running revolution in the '70s and '80s. Waitz, who had cancer, was 57.

When a Florida unemployment agency launched a "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" to its "Everyday Superheroes" campaign, it ordered 6,000 capes to hand out to the jobless. The gimmick included a cartoon villain: Dr. Evil Unemployment. The Orlando Sentinel reports jobless clients aren't the only ones wondering why the agency spent $14,000 on capes.

Living donors of kidneys and other organs face can face difficulties with health costs, if they're uninsured. Recipients' coverage can take care of most acute problems. But some medicines and tests may not be part of the deal.

The investment bank's profits dropped 21 percent in the first quarter, compared with the same quarter last year. Its earnings per share took an even bigger hit — down more than 70 percent from last year. That's still better than what Wall Street analysts were expecting. "We are pleased with the results," Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said.