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Maurice Sendak, the well-known children's book author and illustrator, has died. He was 83. Sendak is widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are. Steve Inskeep has this remembrance.

Reporting that it has had the video "clarified" by a forensics company, ABC News is now saying that police surveillance video of George Zimmerman "shows the neighborhood watch captain with an injury to the back of his head."

The 3-year-old champion colt Hansen is unlikely to win this year's Kentucky Derby, but his white coloring ensures that all eyes will be on him.

Pope Benedict is in Cuba's capital Havana for Wednesday's morning's open-air mass that is expected to attract huge crowds. On Tuesday, the pope made a pilgrimage to the country's most revered place: the Basilica of the Virgin of Charity.

In the political equivalent of what happens in battle when the enemy's captured artillery piece is turned around and the opponent's own shells are fired back at them, Democrats decided to take ownership of a word they once seemed to avoid at all costs. The shift has been occurring for weeks if not months. But it became particularly noticeable around the law's second anniversary on March 23.

As five large fires burn thousands of acres and threaten some communities in the Southwest, federal response teams say they have plenty of resources available and that this wildfire season is actually getting off to a slow start.

A boogie-woogie pianist gets his due, Charlie Haden on his late drummer and Portland dispatches.

When Russian officials downplayed shortages of HIV drugs, activists turned to the Web to raise awareness about the problem. Since 2004, the AIDS epidemic has worsened in Russia, despite a law that requires drug treatment people with HIV.

Each month, producing the closely watched jobs numbers transforms a quiet federal statistics office into a high-security operation.

A rundown of the news that's catching our eye this morning from the London Games includes a repeat gold by U.S. rowers in the women's eight, along with a shocking water polo fight.