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Defensive end Mario Williams of N.C. State is the first pick. Then what? Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ron Rapoport tells Scott Simon why he thinks the NFL draft captures the imaginations of so many Americans.

South Carolina's governor signed into law a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls' or women's sports in public schools and colleges.

The results of a survey conducted by Salary.com -- a wage data firm -- show that some of the jobs people think are most glamorous, actually don't pay very well. Where can the real money be found?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is boosting the level of troops in Afghanistan to confront forces loyal to the Taliban. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland discusses developments with John Ydstie.

The Senate asks in hearings whether fraud was committed during the dispersal of Federal Emergency Management Agency aid following hurricanes in the South last year.

Preliminary results of Iran's presidential election show that reformist cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is leading, while hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the second-leading vote getter. There are seven candidates in all, and a runoff vote is expected on June 24.

"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling to end "race-based medicine," wherein doctors sometimes use race as a factor to determine what treatment patients receive.

The deadline has passed for illegal immigrants in the Dominican Republic to begin the process to get regularized or to get out of the country. Authorities say most illegal immigrants will be deported.

Two years ago, Raul Midon burst onto the scene with remarkable guitar chops and a voice whose expressiveness recalls the legends of soul. His new sophomore album finds him in a broader frame of mind, both musically and in terms of commercial pursuits.