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If you'd like to sing to your baby this Mother's Day, but think your voice is enough to make a small child cry, fear not. A new CD just might boost your confidence.

Two years ago, siblings Natalie and Chris Geymayr saw a straight line to college and a middle-class life. But when their mother died and the recession hit, the pair dropped out of college to make money. Now, they're struggling to earn what they need — showing just how difficult it is to advance in this economy without a college degree.

A controversy surrounding the accuracy of the best-seller Three Cups of Tea raises questions on how to determine a group's reliability. Despite the murky waters of nonprofit oversight, experts say donors can ask the right questions to see if a charity is really doing what it says it's doing.

The death of Osama bin Laden has sparked fevered speculation in Afghanistan about whether it might help or hurt efforts to negotiate with the Taliban. On Thursday, about 2,000 people gathered in Kabul to show their opposition to a deal.

The Kentucky Derby brings good business for chocolatier Erika Chavez-Graziano, who sells around 800 pounds of bourbon balls at Derby time.

Florida regulators are failing to protect residents of assisted living facilities, according to an investigation by The Miami Herald and member station WLRN. In one case, Alfredo Navas's mother, Aurora, drowned outside her facility in less than two feet of water.

Former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf tells Steve Inskeep he can't imagine that Pakistanis helped Osama bin Laden hide. Musharraf says he believes it was incompetence that kept bin Laden from being found earlier by Pakistanis.

President Obama traveled to Ground Zero Thursday — just days after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. Obama placed a wreath on the memorial site and met privately with families of victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The president also visited a firehouse and police station, but he did not address the crowd that had gathered to take part in a ceremony.

Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in April for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years. The increase of 244,000 was larger than analysts had expected.

In Scotland, a new project in the Scotch producing region of Speyside plans to take waste matter from the whiskey-making process and turn it into power. In a few years, some 9,000 homeowners may be able to raise a toast to their new source of electricity.