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The discovery of Osama bin Laden in that compound — not far from the Pakistani capital Islamabad — raises all kinds of questions about what Pakistan knew about his presence. Melissa Block speaks with Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, about bin Laden.

Brett Henderson ran a marathon through downtown Cincinnati. According to his mom, he was wearing a pair of borrowed shorts. They kept slipping as he ran so he took them off and proceeded naked. Police ordered him to stop but he kept running. He might have finished, except a cop finally shot him with a taser.

Ten years ago, a school teacher in East Wenatchee, Wash., vowed he would not shave until Osama bin Laden was captured or killed. Gary Weddle kept that promise. But as the Daily Astorian reports, on Sunday night, Weddle got out the razor.

Rep. Mike Rogers says the death of Osama bin Laden "closes a key chapter in the war on terror." The Michigan Republican is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He tells Linda Wertheimer the "fight will go on" until al-Qaida has been eliminated.

In the media, Stanley Ann Dunham is often identified simply as "a white anthropologist from Kansas," or "a single mother on food stamps." But biographer Janny Scott argues that those descriptions don't do justice to the president's mother — a complex, intellectual woman who led an "unconventional" life.

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The past 36 hours have provided endless smirks in offices and at home while coworkers, television anchors and maybe even family members mix up President Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden.

Former All Things Considered host Jim Russell remembers his time on the show

Though there are still forceful advocates of a strong, continuing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden's death has broadened calls for Obama to draw down troop levels there in favor of a more limited, targeted hunt for terrorists.

Past presidents have gained in public standing after ordering bold and successful military actions. But the effect rarely lasts long enough to help a president's re-election chances or his party hold onto the White House.