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Musician Mikel Jollett writes of his young years spent in the Synanon cult and how music helped him overcome these dark days, but misses a chance to discuss music as art and the ideas guiding him now.

Oher alleged Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy presented him with a document establishing a conservatorship shortly after he moved in with him, and said it was "for all intents and purposes, an adoption."

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Bonnie Docherty, senior arms researcher at Human Rights Watch, about the group's call for a pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Viet Thanh Nguyen grew up in America with war movies like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, which offer accounts of the war focusing on Americans. His new novel, The Sympathizer, follows a Vietnamese spy.

The Detroit auto companies made another pitch to the Senate Banking Committee for massive loans to keep operating. They were more contrite than last month and offered a lot more details. But it is still unclear whether they will get the $34 billion they say they need to keep going. The auto executives will appear before the House Financial Services Committee Friday.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff appeared in federal court in New York Thursday and pleaded guilty to running a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme. The judge denied a request from Madoff's lawyer that he remain free until sentencing in June, sending Madoff to jail.

For years, nuns at the 85-year-old Monastery of the Angels in Los Angeles have helped pay the bills by selling pumpkin bread. But now their oven is broken — and they're broke. The nuns are praying for a new oven to help relieve the financial distress.

How did Sen. John McCain manage to make 150,000 votes enough to win South Carolina when the 250,000 votes he got in 2000 left him a loser to George W. Bush? He had a lot of help from Fred Thompson.

Asthma accounts for two million emergency room visits a year, with September being the peak month for attacks that send children to hospital emergency rooms. The National Institutes of Health is encouraging doctors to create asthma action plans with young patients.

The U.N. Relief And Works Agency has suspended operations in the Gaza Strip after one of its drivers was killed by Israeli fire. John Ging, UNRWA's director of operations in Gaza, says the suspension of aid is "a disaster" for the people of Gaza. He says Israel had approved the movement of the aid convoy.