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The ad is likely targeted at foreign journalists ahead of next week's presidential runoff.

After a robust start to the year, job growth in the U.S. has slowed. Many employers want to add more workers, but they say uncertainty about how Congress will handle the nation's fiscal crisis and financial troubles in Europe have left them reluctant to hire.

The 1972 flash flood in Rapid City, S.D., killed 238 people and is considered one of the worst in U.S. history. The flood changed Rapid City forever and caused city planners around the country to rethink the way towns are laid out in flash flood-prone areas.

A day after they were turned away by Syrian security forces, U.N. monitors reach the village where 78 people were believed slaughtered on Wednesday.

The good news for investors followed a painful week of huge drops.

Calls for an investigation into how sensitive national security details were leaked to the media intensified this week. Some lawmakers accused the White House of leaking classified information for political gain.

In four billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, according to a study in the Astrophysical Journal. Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, talks about how this discovery was made, and the fate of our solar system.

Alan Furst's new thriller, Mission to Paris, follows a German-American film star to Europe on the brink of war. Fredric Stahl thinks he's going to make a movie in France, but he winds up caught between German and American forces who both hope to use his stardom for their own ends.

Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, about the increased number of deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records.

High-profile conservatives gathered outside the Windy City Friday for CPAC Chicago, a meeting sponsored by the American Conservative Union. Much of the discussion centered on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in a gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin on Tuesday.