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Charles Taylor had been given a 50-year prison term for aiding and abetting atrocities committed by rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war. A judge at The Hague called the sentence "fair in the light of the totality of the crimes committed."

The Ivory Coast's government says former first lady Simone Gbagbo will not go on trial with her husband at the International Criminal Court. She'll be tried in a domestic court instead. Host Michel Martin checks in with Gbagbo's daughter, Marie Antoinette Singleton, to find out how her family has been responding to the charges.

Like so much of the advice that parents give to their children, conversations about race can be pretty instructive about the values parents hold most dear. And like so much other parental advice, kids are often keen to reject it outright or remix it for themselves.

Dr. Jeffrey Brenner was awarded a MacArthur 'Genius' grant this week for improving health care in one of the poorest cities in America: Camden, New Jersey. Host Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Brenner about his experience, and the national health care debate.

Built for an Indian maharaja, the car also comes with its own machine gun. It was taken on hunts for big game. The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company's annual three-day sale began Thursday in Las Vegas. The Rolls, which may fetch more than $500,000, goes up for bid Saturday.

In 2006, Oregon successfully made pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient of meth, a prescription drug. Since then, Mother Jones' Jonah Engle reports, 24 states have tried to follow suit — and 23 have failed. Engle attributes those failures to pharmaceutical companies' massive lobbying efforts.

A revival of Tennessee Williams' glorious 1945 drama opens tonight at Broadway's Booth Theater. Zachary Quinto and Cherry Jones star in the play, which is partly based on the playwright's own life and family.

We Are What We Are, based on a 2010 Mexican horror hit, relocates the original's story of a separatist cannibal clan from the slums of Mexico City to a rural town in the Catskills. Directed by Jim Mickle, the remake may actually improve on the original. (Recommended)

The GOP can still reasonably claim to be the "party of business." But it's clear there's a significant amount of tension between the Republican Party and the business community.

Washington Sen. Patty Murray, Senate Budget Committee chair and Secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference, talks to Robert Siegel about efforts in the Senate to stave off a government shutdown and pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded.