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  • Military suicides went up again in 2012, as defense officials and Congress grappled with what to do. Of the 349 suicides, there were 182 in the active-duty Army, compared to 165 in 2011.
  • Scientists throughout the West are trying to figure out the mystery of the disappearing mule deer. Since the 1970s, biologists in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have seen deer populations drop by 50 percent. The potential causes vary. Oil and gas development and the growth in coyote populations top the list.
  • President Trump says he is talking to top congressional leaders about gun control. He told reporters, "We will see where NRA will be but we need meaningful background checks."
  • President Trump announced a new acting director of national intelligence as two top leaders prepare to leave.
  • The Houston Rockets' general manager deleted his tweet, but the team immediately faced backlash from China, where the NBA has a big following. Ben Cohen, a Wall Street Journal reporter, explains.
  • White House adviser Jared Kushner is pushing a bill that would make programming available to federal prisoners and ease a path for some to win early release. Though some advocates say it's not enough.
  • Weinstein surrendered to police Friday in New York City. Rachel Martin talks to Jodi Kantor of The New York Times, who won a Pulitzer Prize for co-reporting the paper's original story in 2017.
  • This Sunday, it's the end of "start your engines" for racing star Danica Patrick. The only woman to win an IndyCar race, Patrick leaves motor sports with a last run at the Indy 500.
  • NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Fiona MacGregor, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, about the cash for work program, which gives Rohingya refugee volunteers a stipend to help prepare safer shelters.
  • An unusual bank will open Tuesday in Kazakhstan. The deposits will be nuclear fuel, low-enriched uranium. The customers withdrawing low-enriched uranium will be nations which lack enrichment facilities. The idea is to convince such nations not to build their own. Warren Buffett is among the bank's founders.
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