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Over the last three decades, the gap between the very rich and the very poor has grown exponentially. In the yawning middle is a group for whom it's getting harder and harder to stay in place economically. Host Audie Cornish speaks with two generations of a middle-class family that face drastically different financial futures.

The super committee in Congress is racing to find places to cut more than a trillion dollars out of the nation's deficit by Thanksgiving. The oil industry fears that ending its tax breaks may be one way the super committee will decide to raise revenue. That's spurred Big Oil's lobbying machine to work overtime.

Zynga is a company that makes money by selling nothing. Or, to be precise, by selling imaginary things — like tractors that plow farms on Facebook. Zynga is America's first "virtual goods" company to file for an initial public offering, but how real is the company's value?

A former assistant football coach faces 40 counts of sexual abuse involving young boys. He says he's innocent. Two officials are charged with perjury and failure to report child abuse. They deny wrongdoing. Paterno says he never knew the specifics.

The Italian premier is under pressure to go so that a new government can pass needed economic reforms.

While older men argue that women should play a role in the country's political future, many of the younger generation say they support Sharia law.

International observers say the process has been "opaque" and with many "traps." But with 39 percent of the votes counted, Ortega seems poised for a landslide.

The tablet is $50 more expensive than Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire.

Johnny DuPree is the first African-American candidate to win a major party's nomination for governor in Mississippi since Reconstruction. Though he remains a long shot against GOP Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, DuPree says his run shows that the state has made progress.

GOP presidential contender Herman Cain may have a difficult time getting his campaign back "on message" after a week spent responding to allegations of sexual harassment. Attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference in New York on Monday afternoon for a woman who says she was sexually harassed by Cain.