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  • Author Leah Hager Cohen says it's time to stop faking your way through conversations. "Once you finally own up to what you don't know, then you can begin to have honest interactions with the people around you," she explains.
  • The state fought hard against Obama's Affordable Care Act. Now Gov. Rick Scott's administration is questioning the use of federally funded navigators to enroll residents in health care exchanges.
  • There are about 2 million home care workers in the U.S. But currently they are not covered under minimum wage and overtime laws. That will change in January of 2015 under new regulations announced by the Obama administration.
  • Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has put off her state visit to the United States over allegations that the National Security Agency spied on her, ordinary Brazilians and the state oil company. This was supposed to be the first state visit by a Brazilian leader in two decades.
  • Also: Starbucks asks customers not to bring in guns; searches continue for hundreds of missing people from Colorado flooding; tourists are evacuated from storm-stricken Acapulco, Mexico; and tonight's Powerball jackpot is worth an estimated $400 million.
  • When Nina Davuluri won the Miss America pageant this past weekend, some people on Twitter said she wasn't "American enough." Host Michel Martin speaks to Davuluri about her title and the reaction to it.
  • Matthew Cordle, the 22-year-old Ohio man whose online video confession to having killed a man while driving drunk went viral, formally pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated vehicular homicide. He could be sent to prison for as long as 8 1/2 years.
  • The creator of the toys that reached the zenith of their popularity in the 1990s has agreed to plead guilty to felony tax evasion, federal prosecutors say.
  • The new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, has been getting a lot of attention — but not all of it is positive. Host Michel Martin speaks with the ladies of the Beauty Shop about the pageant, and the idea of American beauty.
  • A video is quickly going viral because it purports to be the sights and sounds of what it looks like from the bird's eye view as an eagle flies above Chamonix, France. Someone appears to have put a small camera on the bird.
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