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The rise in the Hispanic population in the United States has meant an increase in Hispanic media outlets: radio stations, newspapers, and television. The boom has implications for the country's diverse Hispanic communities and for advertisers.

As British authorities hunt suspects in two attacks on the London transit system, they are distracted by a fiasco. Saturday, authories said a man shot dead by plainclothes police officers at a subway station Friday was a 27-year-old Brazilian not connected to the bombings. Brazil's goverment wants an explanation.

In the 1800s, American frontier towns and agricultural communities far from churches saw the rise of summer revival camps. Traveling preachers would bring evangelism to the countryside. The tradition is still going strong at a bible camp in Georgia dating back to 1828.

Rona Jaffe's hit 1958 book The Best of Everything is being reissued, along with a DVD of the 1959 movie. Renee Montagne speaks with Jaffe about the smashing success of her first novel.

In a bid to stop the sale of bootleg DVDs, Los Angeles police, backed by the film industry, have placed surveillance cameras in Santee Alley, a block of L.A.'s Fashion District that a movie honcho calls "one of the biggest pirate havens on the West Coast." The ACLU objects.

Some U.S. congregations have grown so large that they could pass for small cities. But some mega-churches are trying to reverse the trend by creating smaller satellite campuses, aided by video technology.

A 2003 State Department memo clearly indicated Valerie Plame's identity was to be kept secret, according to a Washington Post story. Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, is the CIA officer whose identity was made public in a leak to the press.

Last winter, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory began a Web log, or blog, for employees to post concerns and complaints about fixing problems at the government nuclear facility. But now, some members of Congress who've seen the blog see it as a reason to shut Los Alamos down.

As U.S. officials announce they've held secret talks with North Korean officials, the world continues to work toward defusing the North Korean nuclear threat. But China shows few signs of stepping up economic sanctions on Pyongyang, fearing sanctions could send a wave of refugees across its border.

Time is running out to save the endangered northern right whale. But researchers continue to comb the seas in search of the elusive mammal, hoping to find a way to prevent its extinction.