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The U.S. added 244,000 jobs in April, the biggest jump in five years. So why did the unemployment rate rise?

On this week's podcast, we talk about whether there's any actual momentum toward more (and more active) female fighters, then we consider the movies we can't help watching whenever they're around. Plus, of course, what's making us happy this week.

The head of Ivory Coast's Constitutional Court, Paul Yao Ndre, has reversed his earlier decision, and decided to endorse the campaign victory of Ivory Coast President-elect, Alassane Ouattara.

Osama bin Laden's death has sparked a debate on whether "enhanced interrogation techniques" were responsible for finding bin Laden. Host Michel Martin speaks with former Bush administration official John Yoo, who says coercion was pivotal in gathering data. During Bush's first presidential term, Yoo wrote legal memos justifying the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and warrantless wiretaps.

In a 2006 interview, Terry Gross sits down with Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock to talk about The Beastie Boys' 2006 concert movie Awesome; I...Shot That! and their 25 years making hip-hop.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is the first Beastie Boys album since the all-instrumental 2007 collection The Mix-Up. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the new record is fresh and vital because it sounds so old-fashioned and defiant.

Pictures are communicative gestures and they can't be understood out of narrative context. This general observations sheds light on the difficult choice faced this week by the President as to whether to release pictures of the dead mass murderer.

"WHALE" finds a strange patch of common ground between primitivism and production-driven pop.

CBS News' Hotsheet blog reported that Speaker John Boehner also missed the debate co-sponsored by Fox News Channel and the South Carolina Republican Party.

Pundits said Tim Pawlenty succeeded. But how fine a night could it have been for him when the former Minnesota governor failed to directly say whether he equates creationism with evolution? Or when he had to make an abject apology for once supporting proposals to cap greenhouse gas emissions?