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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is scheduled to be sentenced for sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. But first he faces a hearing to determine if he's a "sexually violent predator" under Pennsylvania law.

GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney thinks the best way to boost employment is through a reduction in tax rates. Critics say it would be difficult for Romney's plan to work without ending some popular deductions.

Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States have been honored for their work on the interaction between life and matter — in particular, the "fundamental interactions between light particles and matter."

On Monday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy address at the Virginia Military Institute. On virtually every major international event of the last four years, Romney said President Obama has been weak.

Finance ministers and central bankers are on their way to Tokyo for their annual get-together sponsored by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Renee Montagne talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, about whether the financial crisis is behind us.

The Penguin Publishing Group recently filed suit against a dozen authors who failed to produce a manuscript after getting an advance. The advances ranged from $10,000 to $81,000.

Several days of cross-border mortar explosions have world leaders calling on Turkey and Syria to ratchet down tensions and avoid open conflict. Turkish leaders say they're not looking for war, but they're determined to respond to each Syrian mortar with an artillery barrage of their own. Turks have been taking to the streets in large anti-war protests.

Muse has sold more than 15 million records worldwide and sold out London's Wembley Stadium twice. More recently, the British band was chosen to write the official song for the 2012 London Olympics. Now, it has a new album called The 2nd Law.

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will jump out of a balloon nearly 22 miles above the earth Tuesday. He'll be wearing a specially designed suit to collect data about his flight.

A man was driving in Beltsville, Md., when a strange noise started coming from his car. The sound came from the engine, and it sounded like a meow. The driver did the same thing as when you'd find a cat up a tree: he called the fire department.