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Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call 50 years ago this week. Who did he call? His competitor at Bell Laboratories to gloat.

Saima Wahab left Afghanistan for the United States as a young girl, but she returned to her home country as a Pashto translator for the U.S. military. In her memoir In My Father's Country, Wahab describes the difficulty of straddling two nations at war.

Belfast boiled over in a second night of sectarian violence, with youth hurling bricks, bottles and gasoline bombs. The unrest centered in Short Strand, a small Catholic community in a predominantly Protestant area of east Belfast. Police said about 400 people were involved. Violence tends to flare up before July 12, a divisive sectarian holiday.

A new authorized biography, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, has the baseball great, now 78 years old, out on tour, talking about his life, his career and — inevitably — the famous play he made in the 1954 World Series, known in baseball lore simply as "The Catch."

Poet Elizabeth Alexander's new book is a memoir of her life with her husband, who died three years ago. During her book tour, readers began giving her keepsakes that help her work through her grief.

As the chief official White House photographer for President Obama, Souza sometimes shot more than 2,000 photos a day. "I was there all the time," he says. His new book is Obama: An Intimate Portrait.

The 18-year-old British singer says his faith is a misunderstood one. He's hoping his music will help change that.

The presidential hopeful played along with Ellen DeGeneres on her show, set to air Thursday. He was asked if he'd ever been in handcuffs, what flavor ice cream he'd be and, "Boxers or briefs?"

Host Michel Martin speaks with Supreme Court correspondent David Savage, and labor economist Steven Pitts about the high court's rulings on public employee unions and contraception.

Developers are building more single-family houses for renting. That can lower prices for both renters and buyers.