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  • Newly released audio tapes capture News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch expressing contempt at the investigation that has embroiled his top-selling newspaper in corruption charges in the U.K. Murdoch was recorded saying he probably panicked by cooperating so fully with Scotland Yard — and told reporters at the Sun that paying cops for information has been a practice in the British press for more than a century.
  • The latest data from the Labor Department suggests there's a bit more wind in the sails of the economic recovery. Still, the job growth in the private sector now appears to be strong enough that some people worry that the Federal Reserve might start to pull back on its efforts to boost the economy.
  • Photographing fireworks can be tough, so we asked our interns to take portraits of the crowd taking in the colorful display at the National Mall.
  • Part 2 of our interview with Rosa Guerrero, Billie Brown, and Nina Gomez.
  • Across the Midwest this summer, scientists are wading into 100 streams to collect water samples and check cages for fish eggs. It's part of a large study to understand how pesticides and agricultural chemicals from farms are affecting the nation's streams.
  • We've invited Collins to play a game called "OWWW!" Three questions about athletes and the surprising new ways they find to injure themselves. Originally broadcast on Dec. 14, 2012.
  • Before he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Adam Riess had already won a MacArthur "genius" grant, and just about every prize there is to win in his field. So there's really only one place left for him to be victorious: the Not My Job game. Originally broadcast on Oct. 8, 2011.
  • A small section of the New York Botanical Garden's Wild Medicine exhibit recreates the Italian Renaissance Garden at Padua, Italy, the site of one of the earliest and most important medical schools.
  • Factories are running at full capacity to try to keep up with the surging demand for ammunition in the U.S. The current shortage has prompted more shooters to take up "reloading," or making one's own ammo. But now, even the components needed to make one's own bullets are harder to come by.
  • Cairo's emblematic Tahrir Square and nearby approaches to the River Nile are largely empty and debris-strewn today. At least 30 were killed in cashes between supporters and opponents of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
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