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Guy Raz talks with NPR sports correspondent Mike Pesca about the numbers behind the NBA's labor troubles.

Only a few months ago, the bank Dexia was rated one of the most stable in Europe. But, within the past few days, it's become the first casualty of the Greek debt crisis, saved only by interventions by the Belgian and French governments. Robert Siegel talks with Stanley Pignal, Brussels correspondent for the Financial Times, for more.

The bill seeks to tax Chinese imports in an attempt to neutralize what some lawmakers see as an unfair advantage based on China's currency manipulation.

Slovakia, the second poorest of the 17 nations that use the euro, has complicated plans to help Greece and other debt-ravaged countries. The Slovakian parliament was due to be the last to approve the expansion of the eurozone bailout fund. But internal divisions in the ruling coalition caused the government to collapse instead.

It was the first big test for Obama's plan. The president vowed, earlier, to move the $447 billion bill through the chambers piecemeal if the Senate failed to pass it today.

The foiled plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. is not likely to lead to military reprisals, analysts say. But it will increase tension within a set of tangled relationships.

Mumtaz Qadri was sentenced to death for the killing of a governor, but supporters rallied behind him saying he killed in defense of Pakistan's tough blasphemy laws.

In America, football is really big — and it's getting bigger. Football is now gigantic, monstrous, humongous. And it has done more than surpass baseball. It now simply looms alone above the American sportscape.

More than 7,500 Syrians who have fled political unrest in their country are staying in camps in southeast Turkey. Conditions at the camps are good, but there is anger at the indifference of Arab states and the international community toward protecting civilians inside Syria.

If two Iranians, possibly with the support of some in Iran's government, did try to hire Mexican drug cartel members to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S., it's a bold and ominous development, analysts say.