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  • Schumer made the proposal after seeing intelligence gathered at Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, but the reaction to his proposal has been mixed.
  • For him and many others, it's "an instinctive desire to replicate or try to reestablish the beauty of nature," says the organizer of the just-finished World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships.
  • Nursing degrees have long been touted as the golden tickets to a job. But when the great recession hit, older nurses set to retire decided to keep working and part-timers moved to full time for extra income. So today's nursing graduates are encountering a far tougher job market than the one they were promised.
  • Robert Siegel talks with Melanie Delhome, a resident of Tunica, Miss. She's been staying in a shelter for almost two weeks since the Mississippi River started rising there. Her home is almost completely submerged.
  • Frustration is growing at the slow pace of justice in the Philippines. The trials of those accused of murdering 34 journalists and two dozen others have been going on for more than 500 days without conclusive results. Victims' families and media rights groups are demanding action from the government.
  • The president pivots from foreign affairs to an issue that has stalled under his watch — comprehensive immigration reform. His speech in El Paso is seen by critics as political theater, coming at a time when bipartisan efforts have dead-ended.
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  • The Corps is also thinking of opening a second one, the Morganza north of Baton Rouge, which hasn't been opened since 1973.
  • Dick Van Dyke's new book touches on his long history in show business and some of the figures who inspired him. As it turns out, at least two entertainment legends left him something significant when they died.
  • The government of Japan says it will take three years to clean up the debris left behind by the giant tsunami that washed over that country's northeast coast in March. An estimated 130,000 people either had their homes destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami, or were evacuated because of the radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Officials are struggling to build them temporary housing, in areas where there is little vacant land.
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