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With a new Muppets movie on its way to theaters, NPR's Susan Stamberg goes on set with felt-wrangler Bill Barretta and director James Bobin to find out what's new — and what techniques never change.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he learned to run a lean campaign from a former Pennsylvania state senator's wife. Now he's employing those skills in Iowa, hoping to stun the political establishment with a surprise win in January.

Most of the cheese at Murray's Cheese Shop comes from Europe. And the cheese buyer's bonus hinges on the future of the euro.

Battelle isn't exactly a household name but the Ohio nonprofit is responsible for everyday items like the Xerox copy, compact discs and even bar codes. Those are the inventions Battelle publicly takes credit for. There are countless others, but the Columbus-based organization stays under the radar because it develops these products for large corporations confidentially. This report is from the Midwest reporting project Changing Gears.

McDonald's and Target have severed ties with Sparboe Farms, one of the country's main egg producers, after an animal rights group released video of workers treating the chickens cruelly. Meanwhile, investor Warren Buffett is in Japan for a factory opening in Fukushima Prefecture, the area hit hardest by the March earthquake and tsunami.

Brace for a negative response from financial markets and prepare for more political battles in the coming year if the so-called supercommittee concedes later today that it couldn't agree on how to cut future budget deficits.

The Dutch-born player was killed in Rotterdam. His brother has been arrested. Halman, 24, had played in 44 games with the Mariners over the past two seasons.

The school has placed the chief of its campus police on administrative leave while it reviews what happened when an officer used the spray on a small group of seated Occupy protesters.

The debate hasn't been settled, but there's a new challenge to the claim by one group of scientists that they had measured particles moving faster than was thought possible.

Louis Freeh led the FBI from 1993 to 2001. Before that he was a U.S. District Court judge. He did not attend Penn State.