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Hugh Thompson Jr., a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, has died at age 62.

Folk-music legend Odetta was a force in the 1960s push for social justice. Her passion inspired fellow musicians and activists such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. Odetta died Dec. 2, 2008, at the age of 77. Hear a 2005 interview.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WLRN listener Rob Olmstead of Clearwater, Fla.

Artists will be stationed across half a mile of the Polly Judd Park trail, creating paintings, or sketches, inspired by nature and the South Hill Bluffs. Attendees will be able to bid on the art in real time on their smart phones, or online in the week following the event.

The pitch to skip a mortgage or home loan payment is centered on the lender simply extending the loan by a month and paying it on the back end. But the offer has a catch. The lender makes money on the later payment because the borrower pays a little more interest.

A staple of the American road trip could be slowly disappearing. Owners of some roadside attractions are deciding that interest is waning in such treasures as the world's largest ball of string, Stinker the monkey or the Elvis Is Alive Museum.

From Stagecoach to The Graduate, movies have helped to shape our world. Nick Clooney, former host of cable's American Movie Classics, joins NPR's Bob Edwards to talk about his new book, The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen. NPR Online has the list of the 20 movies featured in Clooney's book.

Sam Hass plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Listener Charley Parker plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

This year the Washington Attorney General’s office reported the highest number of data breaches it has ever recorded.In its sixth annual data breach…