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Some 100,000 people packed St. Peter's Square to hear the pope's last blessing. They interrupted him several times with applause and cheers. Benedict has one more scheduled public event: a general audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday.

Hurricane Dennis is moving toward the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It remains a Category 4 storm with winds near 145 miles an hour. It's expected to strike land Sunday afternoon. NPR's Jon Hamilton is at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Auli'I Cravalho and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who voiced Moana and Maui, respectively, in the 2016 film, will reprise their roles in the live-action version, Disney said.

Burt Bacharach, one of pop's historic melody makers, is still performing at age 92, as you'll see in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert with lyricist Daniel Tashian.

A preliminary report from the Labor Department shows U.S. employers added 818,000 fewer jobs in the year ending in March than initially reported. The news comes during an election season in which the economy is a key issue.

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Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian strongman who rose to power as president of Yugoslavia, then found himself indicted on more than 60 counts of war crimes, is buried in his hometown. Serbs faithful to Milosevic pay tribute at a Belgrade rally.

Severe drought has led to famine in the West African nation of Niger. Millions of people are in need of food and water. The story of one village highlights the difficult process of distributing food.

Augustin Hadelich dazzles in an album of odd bedfellows, which pairs Johannes Brahms' romantic war horse with György Ligeti's modernist stunner.

Suddenly, everyone in New York is violently suicidal — and the impulse seems to be spreading. The latest far-fetched frightfest from M. Night Shyamalan boasts a nifty setup — but the payoff is decidedly problematic.