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<p>Celebration: The St. Louis Cardinals spray Champagne after Game 7 of baseball's World Series against the Texas Rangers in St. Louis.</p>

Comeback Cards Win It All: St. Louis Takes World Series Title

The team that in late summer didn't look like it would even make the playoffs came from behind again to defeat the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7. For the Cardinals, it's the team's 11th World Series title. Texas is still looking for its first.

<p> Union posters can be found all over the Occupy Philadelphia protest site near City Hall. Protesters and local union leaders meet regularly to discuss tactics and how to involve labor. </p>

Unions Assume A Support Role For Occupy Movement

Labor unions have found a new ally for their long-time criticism of the country's ultra-wealthy. Around the country, Occupy Wall Street-inspired protests are drawing attention to a message unions have been advancing for years. But unions say they don't want to take over.

<p>Special forces troops in Belize march through jungle looking for any sign of marijuana or drug smugglers. Drug traffickers have become increasingly active in Belize and other small nations in Central America. </p>

Small And Isolated, Belize Attracts Drug Traffickers

Drug traffickers are increasingly moving into smaller, weaker nations in Central America, including Belize. The U.S. is providing some help, but Belize desperately lacks the resources to fight drug cartels.

<p>This undated photo provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration shows the last B53 nuclear bomb. It was dismantled this past week, just outside Amarillo, Texas. It's a milestone in efforts to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.</p>

U.S. Dismantles The Biggest Of Its Cold War Nukes

The B53 weighed more than 4 tons and was 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. It's taken the past 14 years to dismantle them.

Tribal Unrest In The New Libya

Bani Walid was one of the last pro-Moammar Gadhafi bastions to fall to revolutionary forces. It's also the seat of the Warfalla tribe, the largest in Libya. In the wake of Gadhafi's death, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports the tribe is aggrieved and the city is seething.

Your Letters: From Boxing Bros To Iowa Polls

Host Scott Simon reads from listener letters about his interview with boxing's Klitschko brothers, a look at Republican presidential contenders ahead of next year's Iowa caucuses and clarifying who, exactly, is Dashiell Hammett's Thin Man.

<p>Mark Twain's story "<a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/141688755/the-50-funniest-american-writers-an-anthology-of-humor-from-mark-twain-to-the-on?tab=excerpt">A Presidential Candidate</a>," in which he jokingly announces that he is running for president, kicks off Andy Borowitz's comedy collection.</p>

The Funny 50: A Cavalcade Of Comic Writers

Writer and comedian Andy Borowitz read through more than 1,000 different authors before picking the top 50 for his new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to the Onion.

<p>Michael Shannon plays federal agent Nelson Van Alden on the HBO series <em>Boardwalk Empire. </em>"I think inside of Van Alden is a child — that arrested child — that never really got to develop its own identity," he says.</p>

Fresh Air Weekend: Michael Shannon, David Carr

Actor Michael Shannnon talks about his role on Boardwalk Empire; David Carr, who writes the Media Equation column for The New York Times, reflects on the future of journalism; and rock critic Ken Tucker reviews a new album from the bank Deer Tick.

<p><em>The New York Times</em>' move to install a pay wall in March was seen as risky, but the paper's profits and its digital subscribers are up, according to third-quarter profit reports.</p>

The News Tip: Don't Listen To Naysayers

The New York Times' pay wall was seen as a risky move at the time, but the Gray Lady's third-quarter profit reports are in, and the results are better than expected. The paper's profits are up, and the Times has seen a boost in digital subscribers.

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