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  • Police in three Western states are seeking the reclusive leader of a religious group which openly practices polygamy. Warren Jeffs heads the church, which dominates twin towns on the Utah-Arizona border. Jeffs and three followers were indicted this week for sexual assault and conduct involving a minor. Howard Berkes reports.
  • The elusive revolutionary leader in Mexico's southern region of Chiapas is making himself heard for the first time in four years. Subcomandante Marcos says he wants to influence Mexico's next election by creating a broad political force to push leftist values.
  • Michele Norris talks with Richard Ragan, North Korea country director for the World Food Programme, about famine in North Korea. It's the lean season before the harvest and the country has mobilized nearly all of its citizens to work in the fields. Meanwhile, the WFP is falling short in its food reserves.
  • President Bush worshipped at a state-sanctioned church in Beijing Sunday morning, a gesture meant to encourage greater religious freedom in China. Debbie Elliott takes a closer look at the practice of Christianity in China with Carol Lee Hamrin, co-editor of God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions.
  • In New York City, designer Rodney Leon and AARRIS Architects have been chosen to build a $3-million permanent memorial on the site of a Colonial-era burial ground for African slaves. But the controversy that has surrounded the project since the gravesite was discovered in 1991 continues.
  • Dozens of cases linked to a nightclub spurs officials to return to online schooling and indefinitely delay sports gatherings.
  • Two panels of witnesses will testify Monday, although the headliner witness, former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, will no longer appear "due to a family emergency."
  • Several community organizations and clean energy advocates want to see Ameren Illinois take more steps toward offsetting rising energy costs.
  • Percussionist Bobby Sanabria grew up in the musical melting pot of the South Bronx in New York City. Now, as the leader of a big band, it's no wonder that his brand of Latin jazz mirrors a panoply of Afro-Western styles from all over the Americas.
  • Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef and owner of Prune, a popular restaurant in New York City's East Village. She also has an MFA in fiction writing, something she put to use in writing her first book, the aptly titled Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.
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