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Amid concerns about setbacks in the fight against the Taliban, President Obama has tapped Lt. Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson to take charge of international forces.

A suburban Chicago police officer Joseph Glineiwicz staged his suicide last September to look like a murder, sparking a massive manhunt. It turns out he had embezzled from a city program for years.

The school maintains that 90 percent of its graduates who are looking for work find employment in their field. The Federal Trade Commission calls that statement deceptive.

Rachel Star Withers decided to let people know what was going on inside her head: the hallucinations, the voices. She says going public has helped her deal with schizophrenia and helps others, too.

Drama, conflict and uncertainty about how it will all end. That's the state of the presidential race, five days before the first votes are cast in Iowa.

The occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge took a turn Tuesday evening. At least eight leaders of the militants were arrested while traveling to a public meeting. Another was killed in an officer-involved shooting. The occupiers remaining at the wildlife refuge say they are not leaving.

For three weeks, law enforcement followed a strategy of lying low and not confronting the armed militants who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. With the arrest of the leaders — and the death of one — Tuesday that policy changed. NPR looks at what led up to the confrontation.