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Carol Leonnig spoke to a number of Secret Service agents for her new book, Zero Fail. "They strongly believed that it was a matter of time before a president was shot on their watch," she says.

An official assessment by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, concludes that after eight years, the U.S. and its allies have failed to focus on and win over the Afghan people. He also calls for more troops to ensure victory over the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Officials in Cadiz wanted to give Joaquin Garcia an award for service but no one could find him. According to reports, he'd largely stopped coming to work. He is contesting the $30,000 fine.

Many companies mislead by using accounting practices that make their environmental goals relatively meaningless or exclude parts of their businesses in their calculations, NewClimate Institute finds.

With less than a month before the tax filing deadline, the IRS says tax season is going smoothly. The agency is investing billions of dollars to improve service and beef up tax enforcement.

While many efforts to use the Internet for commerce have proved disappointing, there are a few web-based businesses that appear to have the right formula. One such company is Tunes.com...the company runs a web site that allows you to listen to a little bit of every track from a cd. Tunes.com already has more than 200,000 music tracks available. NPR's John McChesney reports on how the company has managed to combine novelty and profitability.

Actress Jennifer Garner appeared last week on the Web site of the Central Intelligence Agency. Garner plays a CIA case officer in the ABC show Alias. Her video encourages people to consider a career at the CIA. NPR's Robert Siegel takes us on an audio tour of the CIA's recruitment Web site where, with the help of NPR's Frank Tavares, we hear about exciting job opportunities at the agency.

A Web site is raising alarm about the chemical compound dihydrogen monoxide. The odorless, colorless substance is abundantly available in liquid, solid and gaseous form. Scientists agree that there is no good way to get rid of it. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with professor Tom Way of Villanova University. He maintains a web site with information for people concerned about the substance.

the French language have sued a U.S. university with a branch in France, for using mostly English on its Internet web site. The groups sued Georgia Tech, charging it uses the Web site to advertise its academic programs, and French law requires that all advertising in France must be in French.

Health care price transparency is one of the few bipartisan issues in Washington, D.C. But much of the information is not helpful to patients, and there's no evidence that it's lowering costs.