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Mushrooms and cherries first taught gamers what food can do in games. Now, one gamer has taken the food from the virtual world and put it on the dinner plate.

Lego introduced a new lineup of toys earlier this month meant to appeal to girls. But a petition posted on Change.org is calling on the toy maker to stop distinguishing between toys for girls and those for boys. So far, the petition has amassed over 47 thousand signatures. Host Michel Martin speaks with one of the sponsors of that petition, Bailey Shoemaker Richards.

Botanist Nicholas Money's book Mushroom takes readers inside the world of the fungal organisms that appear overnight on lawns, are occasionally poisonous and appear in everything from Alice in Wonderland to some lifesaving medications.

"If I was on that plane with my kids. ... There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry,' " the actor told Men's Journal. He's now apologized.

The vote is political theatre baked into the budget deal struck last August.

A team from the aircraft carrier strike force group that Iran threatened earlier this week went to the aid of Iranians who had been held captive for several weeks, the U.S. Navy reports.

The teenager, who doesn't speak Spanish, told American authorities she was Tika Lanay Cortez, a Colombian citizen born in 1990. She was deported and ended up in Colombia, partying and smoking marijuana, the family said.

More than 4 in 10 New Hampshire voters are listed as undeclared. But research shows most of them identify with a political party.

The opposition movement in Morocco adopted the music of provocative rapper Mouad Belrhouate. Now, supporters say his arrest and trial are attempts to silence him. Despite recent reforms, activists say Morocco still has a long way to go.

Presidential superPACs can solicit big, corporate contributions and use the money to run attack ads. They're not allowed to coordinate those ads with the candidates they support. But there's a never-ending debate over whether that ban has teeth.