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About 400 students from Bloomington High in Southern California showed up for prom a week early — because the invitations had the date wrong. The venue managed a makeshift party for them anyway, complete with a DJ and chicken strips.

When Scott Brown decided not to seek the Republican nomination in the state's special election to replace Sen. John Kerry, it left political observers predicting a very easy Democratic win in the blue state. Republican and Democratic experts discuss what's going on in Massachusetts.

President Obama visits Mexico this week and some of the usual issues are no longer at the top of the agenda. Host Michel Martin talks with Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News, who calls the trip a huge shift in U.S.-Mexico relations.

In a worldwide survey of Muslim attitudes, Pew concludes that substantial minorities believe that Islam should play a "large" role in the societies they live in.

Eric Justin Toth, a former teacher in Washington, took Osama bin Laden's place on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

Did the Boston bombings slow or derail efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration system? Early indications are that it's on track.

Steve Inskeep talks with Karen Greenberg, Director of Fordham University's Center on National Security, about defining terrorism, what it means to call an act domestic versus international terrorism and the political ramifications.

Also: Bret Easton Ellis was asked not to attend GLAAD awards; authors who used amphetamines to write; and Isabel Allende's magical realism critiqued.

The iconic American folksinger died Monday morning of a sudden heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J. He apparently never fully recovered from kidney surgery he underwent a year and a half ago. Havens was 72 years old.

In the 70s, David Chan and his co-workers decided to try every Chinese restaurant in the neighborhood. Now, the 64 year old Los Angeles attorney has visited more than 6,000 Chinese eateries around the world. The Los Angeles Times says he once hit 300 restaurants in a single year.