Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch says new emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request prove that "contrary to its repeated denials" the Obama administration "attempted to exclude the Fox News Channel (FNC) from a round of interviews with Treasury's 'Executive Pay Czar' Kenneth Feinberg."

More than 18 million allegations of copyright infringement have landed on the doorstep of Hadopi, the French agency charged with administering the country's "three strikes" law.

The news, as reported by Ars Technica, is that a mere 470,000 "first strike" e-mails have been sent to Internet users accused of breaking copyright law through file sharing.

Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton has resigned. He is the latest casualty of the phone hacking and police bribe scandal that has engulfed parent company News Corp. For more, Michele Norris talks to NPR's David Folkenflik.

The latest domino in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal has fallen on this side of the pond: Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones and Co., which publishes The Wall Street Journal, told the paper that he is resigning. The AP has confirmed the news with Dow Jones.

Hinton was the head of News International, which oversaw the News Of World, when the phone hacking allegations arose.

"We are a rock band, believe it or not," John Stanier says.

The drummer of the New York trio Battles maintains that even though its music is densely layered, digitally processed and often lacking traditional song structure, the tools behind it are nothing special.

When space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth this week from its final flight, NASA will be out of the business of launching humans into space for the foreseeable future.

But soon, there could be more American space travelers than ever. That's because several companies are developing spacecraft that will take anyone into space who wants to go — provided they can pay for the ride.

A comprehensive look at historical data on letter grades given by more than 200 four-year colleges and universities found that A's have become "ordinary."

In a study published Wednesday in Teachers College Record, Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy found that A's represent 43 percent of all letter grades, making it the most common mark.

The New York Times reports:

New cargo and transport vessels must meet energy efficiency standards and cut carbon pollution, the U.N. agency regulating international shipping decided Friday. The decision came despite opposition from China, India and Brazil.

The new rules from a powerful committee of the International Maritime Organization attack a growing source of greenhouse gases. The policy would also be the first time a measure on climate change applies equally to countries, regardless of whether they are from the industrial or developing world.

The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis received a special call from the White House Friday. Michele Norris and Robert Siegel tell us more.

As President Obama made his case on the debt ceiling and deficit crisis at the White House Friday, Republicans on the Hill were making theirs — and promising a series of votes next week to set out their plan for reordering the nation's finances.