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Recently released sports video games are touting how their high-powered graphics portray players like the Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant realistically. The realism extends to audio as well.

Calling The Shots: Realistic Commentary Heightens Video Games

New basketball video games are touting their high-tech graphics, but the realistic play experience extends to the ear as well. The games feature action-packed commentary from famous TV announcers with dialogue for every situation. The more spontaneous it sounds, the better.

Princeton University's Nassau Hall. The New Jersey university has seen seven cases of bacterial meningitis since March.

Princeton To Distribute Meningitis B Vaccine

The vaccine has not been approved in the U.S. but an outbreak at the university prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend importing the vaccine.

An Egyptian woman kisses a poster of Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as she arrives at Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war last month. Many are calling for the general to run for president next year, but so far he has remained coy.

Back To The Future: Calls Grow For A Military Ruler In Egypt

Egypt's post-revolution transition has been tumultuous. Now, many Egyptians are ready to settle for a return to the pre-revolution status quo: a strong, military man who can guide Egypt back to stability. Their hopes are pinned on Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who led the ouster of Mohammed Morsi.

Gov. Robert Bentley says his five-day trip to Japan focused mostly on relationship building, but also included some economic development and recruitment opportunities.

Gov. Bentley Says Japan Trip Strengthened Relationships

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says he used his trip to Japan to strengthen existing relationships with Japanese companies.Bentley told reporters Monday that…

Justice Sotomayor Faults Ala. Death Sentences

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is calling attention to an Alabama law that allows judges to impose death sentences after juries have voted to send…

The Cray-built Titan, at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, comes in second.

Chinese Supercomputer Retains Title Of World's Fastest

The machine, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, can perform nearly 34 quadrillion calculations per second.

Wisconsin Chooses Its Own Path To Overhaul Medicaid

The state's Republican governor, Scott Walker, rejected federal funds to expand Medicaid coverage. But Wisconsin is also bringing more people into Medicaid while moving others to private insurance on the health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

In <em>Lone Survivor</em>, Mark Wahlberg (left) stars as former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who was the lone survivor of a mission in Afghanistan in 2005.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: On Survival

In the latest edition of Word of Mouth, NPR's Steve Inskeep gets recommendations from Daily Beast editor Tina Brown on the subject of survival.

Gen. Keith Alexander is director of the National Security Agency, whose duty, his office has said, "requires us to attempt to collect terrorist communications wherever they traverse global infrastructure."

Technology Outpacing Policymakers, Needs Of NSA

The controversy over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs has exposed a problem in the oversight of those programs. Changes to adapt have come so fast that legislators, judges, policymakers and technology firms can't keep up, and major gaps have appeared in policymaking and legislating.

Formerly known as the Alexandria Slave Pen, this ashen gray row house in Alexandria, Va., once housed one of the country's largest slave-dealing firms.

A New Life For An Old Slave Jail

Lewis Henry Bailey was freed from slavery in Texas and began his journey back to Virginia by foot 150 years ago. The jail where he was sold to slave dealers as a child is now a museum and the offices of a local Urban League chapter just outside of the nation's capital.

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