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In the Women's World Cup, the U.S. and Sweden battled to a tie Friday night.

Convicted murderer James Robert Jones, 69, was arrested in south Florida. He'd been on the run since slipping out of Fort Leavenworth in 1977.

Producer T Bone Burnett found a surprisingly good fit when he matched wispy-voiced bluegrass vocalist Alison Krauss with hard-rock belter Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin fame). Their new CD, Raising Sand, has a relaxed, intimate feel.

Denzel Washington's Great Debaters offers a lot of history and a good dose of fiction, shaping events so that they fit in the Hollywood mold ... not that that's entirely a bad thing.

This National Poetry Month, All Things Considered challenged listeners to submit Twitter poems with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. Listener Tommy Welty wrote about his family.

The quartet has a passion for crafting pop hooks matched with complex, intimate lyrics — a creative formula that extends to their style, attitude and even the name of the band, named for a minor royal whose assassination sparked global change.

Fans in Los Angeles went wild when Argentina won the men's World Cup after an eventful final match against France. It was Argentina's first world championship since 1986.

A new app from the "Guardians of the Laws and Spirit of Cricket" takes on the challenge of explaining the game and its many "delightful complications," using videos, animations and quizzes.

Overall, this season's vaccine is about 36 percent effective in blunting or preventing flu, health officials say. That's better than earlier predictions, and good enough to prevent flu in thousands.

From Pennsylvania and New Jersey north through New York State and into New England, blizzard and storm warnings are up. By the time the storm is over on Saturday, some places may have 3 feet of new snow.