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  • The lake is hard to explain, because Titan's tropical latitudes receive so much sun the liquid should evaporate.
  • Hill not only made his name as a mobster but as an informant who spent a decade in the witness protection program.
  • More than a year after its revolution, Egypt is still struggling for direction. The country holds a runoff Saturday and Sunday in its first competitive presidential election, and the choices show the country's divide: One candidate is from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood; the other, a former prime minister in Hosni Mubarak's regime.
  • The idea that anyone can make it in the U.S. is personified by immigrant success stories. But what if you came to America for a better life, worked hard and made it — but now face an increasingly anti-immigrant environment? One South Carolina family continues to have faith that the next generation will have it better.
  • Thieves have been breaking into gym lockers and stealing wallets at Vida Fitness in Washington, D.C. So manager Chris Kopp posted a sign reminding people about the surveillance cameras in the locker room, then went further, slapping a flimsy lock on one locker and rigging it so flour would poof out on the person who opened it. It worked.
  • Parliament had passed a law barring former Mubarak aides from seeking office. Now the nation's highest court has rejected that. And it has taken aim at the parliament. Protests are expected.
  • Maryland's Bowie State University opened a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexed and Allies Resource Center, earlier this year. It's believed to be the first center of its kind to open at a historically black college or university. Host Michel Martin discusses the center with a professor and a recent graduate from the college.
  • They can supposedly tell us more about a person than just whether they're sensible or stylish: Such as whether someone's in a comfortable relationship.
  • Banga is Smith's 11th studio album, her first collection of original material since 2004 and the first record she's released since the publication of her memoir Just Kids. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the music on Banga is marvelously uneven and frequently transporting.
  • May also marked the 327th consecutive month with above average temperatures.
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