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After issuing a scathing report and reaching a $209 million settlement, officials are moving ahead on an internal probe of the agency that regulates mines and a federal criminal investigation of the disaster that killed 29 miners.

Two former governors are facing off in a race that will help determine which party controls the Senate in 2013. Republican George Allen is doing his best to tie Democrat Tim Kaine to President Obama, who won the state in 2008 but is now struggling with Virginia voters.

The Free Syrian Army, a ragtag force assembled by defecting Syrian soldiers, has built a sort of underground railroad to get weapons and people in and out of the locked-down country. NPR's Kelly McEvers spent an evening crossing the Lebanon-Syria border with a group of them.

Democrats are hoping to win back Latino voters who have soured on both parties. They hope Latino content creators will bridge the gap.

President Obama says that unless a temporary payroll tax cut is extended this month, 160 million Americans would see their taxes increase. But there's concern on both sides of the political aisle that the payroll tax holiday might be undermining the solvency of Social Security.

Sometimes a topic that seems hot, like Occupy Wall Street, doesn't appear on trending lists, leading some activists to accuse Twitter of censorship. But the secret algorithmic formula prefers stories of the moment to enduring hashtags, so it ignores topics that are popular over a long period of time.

Pope Leo XIV said he would undergo surgery after doctors found a "localized nodule" in his lung.

Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.

A 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later.

The Justice Department says the search is part of an "ongoing federal investigation," while Omar calls it "an attempt to target political enemies."