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In Saudi Arabia, protests are expected against the government after Friday prayers. The Saudi government has banned all kinds of public demonstrations. The scale of Friday's demonstrations, as well as the government's response, will be closely watched.

Fans have flocked to the Internet to find music with — to put it mildly — great enthusiasm. But, investors — not so much. Very few have found a way to turn all that downloading and streaming into dollars. But there are some signs that could be changing.

Earlier this year, when Brigham Young University's basketball team destroyed undefeated San Diego State, Jimmer Fredette knocked down 43 points. And his older brother TJ was watching from the sidelines.

TJ is a rapper, and one of his songs, "Amazing" is the song the sports world is talking about.

Thirty years ago this month, President Ronald Reagan took a bullet. His would-be assassin was John Hinckley Jr., who shot Reagan outside a Hilton in Washington, D.C., where the president had just spoken to an AFL-CIO lunch.

These events have been revisited often over the decades. But a new book by journalist Del Quentin Wilber seeks to redefine what we know about that day. The book is called Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. "Rawhide" was President Reagan's Secret Service code name.

While protests in the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi towns have been small compared with elsewhere in the Arab world, they have shaken the government of Nouri al-Maliki.

The Iraqi prime minister at first reacted like strongmen who have ruled Iraq in the past — with violence. But now he has softened his approach.

'Thirsty To Get Their Liberties'