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Colin Barrett's debut collection deals with some dismal topics. But Tessa Hadley, who picked the book for our Weekend Reads series, praises the Irish writer's "lovely, high-flown, playful" writing.

In Chicago, immigrant-rights activists use the Labor Day weekend to campaign for legal status for undocumented workers. They're marching from the city to the western suburbs, for a rally Monday. Chicago Public Radio's Michael Puente reports.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto hopes a deal with the country's military ruler can restore her family's name to center stage in the political arena.

Pakistan president Gen. Pervez Musharraf will step down as army chief if he is re-elected and will be sworn in as a civilian president, a government lawyer said Tuesday.

Among the dead at Virginia Tech are students and professors who made deep and lasting impressions on the Blacksburg community and beyond. Friends and colleagues pay tribute.

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died. We remember him as the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union. He served nine years as the first freely elected president of Russia.

FEMA tells workers to stay out of thousands of its stored travel trailers, amid concerns about exposure to hazardous fumes. A spokeswoman says formaldehyde emission levels rise when the trailers are closed in heat and humidity without ventilation.

On Wednesday, All Things Considered played a few songs making the rounds online about the presidential and vice presidential candidates. Not many songs about Joe Biden could be found. That prompted a couple of listeners to send in songs about Biden.

President Obama sat down for an informal dinner Monday with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao. Serious discussions were put off until Tuesday when the two leaders will hold a more formal meeting in China's Great Hall of the People. Earlier, Obama told a group of college students in Shanghai that the U.S. welcomes China's growing influence in the world.

For almost every major world event — from the Apollo moon landing to Hurricane Katrina — there's a conspiracy theory to undermine the conventional view of the way things took place. Voodoo Histories, a new book by David Aaronovitch, takes aim at some of the most notorious.