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A grand jury has indicted the Roman Catholic bishop of Kansas City for failing to report suspected child sexual abuse. Bishop Robert Finn has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of not reporting to police that a priest had child pornography on his computer.

One of the earliest primary states is South Carolina, which holds its primary on Jan 21. South Carolina is a Republican stronghold — with a strongly conservative voting base. A sample of Republican voters tell NPR they favor Herman Cain — and they especially like his 9-9-9 plan.

Singer Amy Lee says she's equally inspired by metal and classical music, and that the two aren't all that different.

Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, the alleged target of the Iranian plot, told U.S. officials in 2008 the king wanted the U.S. to attack Iran and "cut off the head of the snake." From Tehran that could have been interpreted as targeting Iran's leader for assassination.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out this week puts a new name at the top of the race for the Republican presidential nomination: Herman Cain. The poll shows the former head of Godfather's Pizza is at 27 percent, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney just 4 points behind. Cain spoke with Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon about his surge to front-runner status.

So far the presidential election is seemingly one endless night of bingeing and purging. One candidate sells like hotcakes for a while, then goes cold as a freezer-burned waffle. What's the deal with the electoral mood swings?

He got national attention for predicting the world would end last May. Then Harold Camping recalculated. And now he's making it sound like it will happen on Oct. 21 with a whimper, not a bang.

Militants tried to blast their way into an American base on Saturday, striking before dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and a vehicle packed with explosives. The attackers failed to breach the gate of the base in Panjshir province's Rakha district, said a provincial police chief.

The Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, Ky., holds a vast collection of the Daily Racing Form, the newspaper of the thoroughbred industry. It doesn't have enough financial resources yet, but the library is working on preserving and digitizing the paper, in print since 1894 — and still printing.

The president toured a General Motors plant with South Korea's leader Friday in Michigan and spoke to workers about the new agreement. The two leaders tried to address a concern by some that the deal will cause the U.S. to lose manufacturing jobs to overseas workers.