Sony is unlikely to meet the deadline it had set to restore the PlayStation Network, keeping millions of irritated videogamers offline for another weekend as the company continues to conduct internal safety checks to defend a new system against hackers.

The Ohio orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut with 1,400 of its fans in tow. The music includes a rarely heard symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich and a theatre piece by Andre Previn and Tom Stoppard. The show begins at 8 p.m. ET.

Four score and seven years ago, Washington won the World Series. Yes, that really happened, in a long-gone place called Griffith Stadium, where the air was perfumed with cigar smoke and the good smells emanating from a bakery up near where Florida and Georgia avenues meet. It happened in 1924, when Calvin Coolidge was president and Babe Ruth played for the Yankees. Perhaps it will never happen again. We can live with that in Washington. In some places, they can’t.

This week Washington ended another heartbreaking flirtation with greatness as our highly regarded hockey team was defeated in the playoffs once more — four straight games and out in the second round. One sports commentator, trying to put her finger on the Washington Capitals’ perennial postseason failures, alluded to something perhaps missing in the locker room: an elan, a spark. Or perhaps what was lacking was the sense of sheer desperation that might cause members of a team to think, as one, that they will be forever disgraced and reviled if they lose this game.

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The circumstances of the previous three days had confined Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen to the bullpen, which reduced two of the Washington Nationals’ most potent weapons to spectators. They watched again for the first six innings Friday night, as tension built at Sun Life Stadium, while their teammates, flaws and all, created a situation worthy of their talents.

Finally given a chance, Clippard and Storen — with a game-ending cameo by Sean Burnett — helped wipe away three miserable days in Philadelphia and lift the Nationals to a 3-2, 10-inning victory over the Florida Marlins before 15,325. The Nationals’ offense — despite striking out 17 times — scraped together the game-winning run when Adam LaRoche lofted a sacrifice fly to left field to score Jayson Werth.

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LOS ANGELES — The Kabbalah Centre, a proponent of Jewish mysticism that has attracted Madonna and other celebrities, said Friday it will cooperate with a government tax investigation.

The nonprofit Los Angeles-based center and one of its charities, Spirituality for Kids, received federal government subpoenas concerning tax-related issues, the center said in a statement.

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TEHRAN — Several associates of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s closest adviser have been arrested in the past few days, Iranian Web sites reported Friday.

Among them is the cleric who leads the prayers at the presidential mosque, Abbas Amirifar, as well as a person accused of sorcery, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

The arrests follow increasing pressure by clerics, politicians and commanders on Ahmadinejad to cut ties with Esfandiar Rahim Mashaee, the closest adviser of the president, but a man hated by Iran’s clerics for advocating the importance of Iranian culture over Islamic tenets.

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MOSCOW — Less than a year before the presidential election, with the country ruled in deep secrecy, political discourse has been reduced to parsing every remark by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev for signs of their intentions.

Neither has said whether he will run, but the exercise has produced a lively political horse race, with one sounding presidential and a certain candidate one week, only to fall victim to a barbed comment from the other and lag behind, out of the running, the next.

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When 19 horses charge from the gate Saturday in the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby, it will mark the start of what — even in a down year — can still be called the two most exciting minutes in all of sports.

But the reality of the 2011 Derby is the horse that isn’t in the race might be a bigger story than the ones that are.

That could change, of course. The winner might emerge as a star, a horse capable of winning the Preakness Stakes in two weeks and competing for the Belmont in June, and give a niche sport some much-needed buzz. But that could also be wishful thinking. When Uncle Mo was scratched on Friday morning with a mysterious internal illness, it marked the third straight year the most talented horse in the field didn’t make it to the starting gate.

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Illegal immigrants in Northern Virginia knew where to go if they needed a high-quality fake green card or Social Security card: They found Eulalio A. Cruz.

From his Manassas home, Cruz, 33, sent cellphone photos of customers to his computer. He’d add addresses and birth dates, used the right kind of ink, and printed the fakes on card stock with holographic images. Sets of documents went for $120 a pop. He’d use a series of runners to make the exchanges.

Federal immigration officials say that Cruz, who this week pleaded guilty to racketeering in federal court in Richmond, was a key player in one of the largest and most sophisticated document mills they have uncovered. His Manassas operation was part of 19 that ran in 11 states, stretching from Nashville to Providence, R.I., officials said. Each year, the ring produced between 10,000 and 15,000 fake documents. They wired at least $1 million to the bosses in Mexico.

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The U.S. Senate has a gang problem.

To tackle immigration, senators formed a Gang of 12. On energy policy, they tried a Gang of 10 ( which became a Gang of 20). Now, under pressure to lower the national debt, Congress is waiting for a bipartisan plan from a Gang of Six.

Those are the gangs. This is the problem: Often, they don’t work.

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As Barack Obama neared the Democratic presidential nomination in March 2008, he delivered an address dubbed “Renewing the American Economy.” The financial meltdown was still on the horizon, but he pointedly noted that most Americans were in the midst of a long economic slide that he said he would reverse if he were elected.

“For many Americans, the economy has effectively been in recession for the past seven years,” he said in the speech, delivered at Cooper Union in Lower Manhattan. He added, “Americans are working harder for less.”

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It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend.

Where have you been? inquired the friend. We’ve missed you. What’s going on in your life? And what are you doing now?

Kuwaiti’s response was vague but heavy with portent: “I’m back with the people I was with before.”

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In her new memoir, the country crossover singer reveals the extent to which she's suffered personally. But musically, she's been playing the field for years, to massive success.

Despite hardy rumors that the bluesman sold his soul to the devil, Johnson's most important legacy is his mastery of recorded music.

Arcos recently sat down with Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz to discuss what he's been spinning. Normally, Arcos shares new music, but here he goes back in time.

We've invited Martin to play a game called "Take my wife ... please." Three questions about jokester Henny Youngman.

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The mortgage-finance giant reported a net loss of $6.5 billion for the first quarter as a weakening housing market dashed hopes that the company had stabilized.

Even before the Obama administration rolls out an expected business tax overhaul plan that would slash corporate rates, some big businesses that are currently taxed as small ones are worried.

The U.S. created a net 244,000 jobs in April, with the biggest jump in private sector hiring since 2006 offset by cuts in government.

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Have you asked him? “I’m not sure why you tell me this, or how I’m supposed to respond.” If there’s a call for more, you can go on: “I don’t want to be a nag, but I also worry that you don’t know how to eat well or say no to yourself. What role do you want me in?”

There’s no right answer here — he could ask you to help him, or he could ask you not to be anything weight-loss related, just loving spouse. I can argue for either one as beneficial to a weight-loss campaign. He might also not be sure what he’s asking — thus the burger bulletins — and talking it through could help you both.

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Ten days ago, Donald Trump was on top of the world.

President Obama had released his long-form birth certificate. Trump, touting the “birther” controversy as he sought momentum for a possible run at the GOP presidential nomination, was in New Hampshire crowing about it. Cable television showed the two men in a split screen! Everything was coming together.

Until it wasn’t. Last Saturday, Trump — or, more accurately, Trump’s hair — was the primary punching bag (can you punch hair?) in speeches by Obama and comedian Seth Meyers at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (Trump, in keeping with his reputation, greeted the good-natured ribbing with a stone-faced stare.)

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he old gym at Fort Myer wasn’t much to look at. Even after you were in your seat, you wondered if college teams played there. Those that did, such as American University and George Washington, were sometimes good, never great. But it was the place where plenty of people got their break in the shallow end of the big time, such as Gary Williams.

As soon as you first saw Williams, coaching AU from 1978 to 1982, you knew he was destined for great things. Or else, for a padded room. He was crazy. Good crazy.

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At times Thursday night, the Nationals offense seemed poised to snap its team-wide, season-long funk against Roy Halladay. They pounded six hits while using their first 10 outs of the game, and they had the bases loaded with one out in the fourth. And then, as has usually happened when their offense is about to turn things around, they wilted: Halladay retired the next 11 batters, and the Nationals, despite driving Halladay’s pitch to 110 in seven innings, finished the game with three runs.

And so the Nationals will try to break out again tonight against the Marlins and Ricky Nolasco, who has a 5.28 ERA in three starts against the Nationals since the beginning of last season. The Nationals have scored 3.65 runs per game this year, 26th in the majors, with a .298 on-base percentage, 27th in league. Hitting coach Rick Eckstein is focused more on his daily process the only thing he can control, than on those results.

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Arthur Laurents, an irascible eminence of musical theater and movies out of whose typewriter came the stage scripts for “West Side Story,” “Gypsy” and the three-hanky film romance “The Way We Were,” died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93 and had pneumonia.

In a show-business career that spanned eight decades, Mr. Laurents wrote radio dramas, Broadway plays and novels. Besides “The Way We Were” (1973), his film credits included Alfred Hitchcock’s thrill-kill melodrama “Rope” (1948) and the acclaimed ballet drama “The Turning Point” (1977). He was a sought-after director for the stage as well, and continued to direct into his 90s.

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MEMPHIS — The Coast Guard closed a section of the swollen Mississippi River to barge traffic Friday to try to protect a Missouri town from floodwaters.

Farther south, police in Memphis went door to door, urging people to flee nearly 1,000 homes that could be swamped by the mighty river. Emergency workers handed out bright yellow fliers in English and Spanish reading, “Evacuate!!! Your property is in danger right now.”

All the way into the Mississippi Delta, people along the river and its tributaries debated whether to stay or go as high water threatened to soak communities over the next week or two. The flooding has already broken high-water records that have stood since the 1930s.

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Employers ramped up hiring in April despite higher fuel costs and global political turmoil, the government said Friday, offering the latest evidence that businesses are confident about the economic recovery.

Private employers continued to rebuild their depleted payrolls, adding jobs at the fastest pace in five years. The addition of 244,000 new positions, in both the private and public sector, in April was up from 221,000 in March.

But even as job creation accelerated, the figures released by the Labor Department showed that the economy is still growing too slowly to reduce unemployment to normal levels for years to come.

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WHAT SURVIVES: Outlook features four lives shattered and transformed by Osama bin Laden: A woman whose mother was killed on 9/11; a Marine sent to war; a detainee held in Guantanamo; and a Muslim-American mistakenly put on a no-fly list.

Like most Americans, the first time I heard the name Osama bin Laden was on Sept. 11, 2001. Unlike everyone else, when I first heard his name, I had just hung up the phone after being told that my mother, Judy Larocque, had a reservation on American Airlines Flight 11 — which hours earlier had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — President Obama met Friday with some of the Navy SEALs who raided Osama bin Laden’s compound and killed him, part of a day of events marking bin Laden’s death that was far more celebratory than was Obama’s solemn appearance a day earlier at Ground Zero.

In private meetings at this Army base, Obama and Vice President Biden congratulated members of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6 and units that supported their mission, presenting them with the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest award for a military unit, a senior White House official said.

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Few individuals in recent history have exerted greater influence on world events than Osama bin Laden — and even fewer have inspired as much mythology. From the origins of the al-Qaeda terrorist network to the devastation of Sept. 11, 2001, to the manhunt that came to an end with such drama last Sunday, bin Laden’s life has been shrouded in mysteries and misconceptions.

Common among conspiracy theorists is the notion that bin Laden was a CIA creation and that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were blowback from an agency operation gone awry. Typifying this view is filmmaker Michael Moore, who on the day after the terrorist attacks wrote: “WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden! Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!”

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News and notes from around the web, including the new Gerald Clayton album, jazz's African roots, a new episode of JazzTimes, Fab Five Freddy (!), Harriet Tubman (the band), David Berkman, Matana Roberts, and John Coltrane goes country.

Investors looking for clues on who will drive off with NYSE Euronext can learn from last year's dustup over Dollar Thrifty Automotive.

A small group of top finance officials from the euro zone met to discuss aid programs for Greece and Portugal. But a number of conflicting reports on the agenda underscored a sense of anxiety about the prospects for troubled economies.

Terry Laughlin has the task of salvaging Bank of America's troubled mortgages. How well he does his job may help determine how long CEO Brian Moynihan can keep his.

SAC Capital Advisors, one of the nation's most prominent hedge funds, is facing heightening regulatory and legislative heat.

In a move aimed at showing China is getting tough on inflation, the state pricing authority fined Unilever for triggering a consumer scramble for its products when it revealed plans to raise prices on its soaps.

Details about Sony's investigation into the massive data breach at its PlayStation network show how Sony struggled to detect, interpret and respond to a series of confusing events.

Yet more woes for Levine, a divisive orchestral foray into Gaza and the auction of one very expensive violin: your weekly classical news wrap-up.

Two Montana lawmakers are trying to start a class-action lawsuit against Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson. The claim filed Thursday alleges Mortenson and his charity Central Asia Institute induced state Rep. Michele Reinhart of Missoula to buy the book and Rep. Jean Price of Great Falls to donate to the charity.

Publishers are already rushing to get books about the death of Osama bin Laden into the hands of interested readers. Hastily published books are a common byproduct of big news events, such as the bin Laden story or the royal wedding.

President Obama visited Fort Campbell, Ky., Friday to personally thank members of the team that found and killed Osama bin Laden earlier this week. But he first flew to Indianapolis to talk about clean energy, and the day's mostly good news on job creation in April. Melissa Block talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro for more.

Indiana recently approved one of the country's most extensive school voucher programs. That move has reinvigorated the debate over education vouchers; while some hope Indiana's move will push other states to follow suit, others are fighting to rein in expansion.

Montana leads the country in the proportion of people who have signed up for the health law's insurance program for those with pre-existing conditions. But that amounts to only 198 people.

American consumers used their credit cards more in March, marking only the second increase in the more than two years since the height of the financial crisis. Consumers increased their total borrowing by $6 billion, the sixth consecutive monthly gain.

The group of hacker activists has denied involvement in the theft of personal information from Sony customers, but a new report suggests the group might have had some involvement.

Mortgage buyer Fannie Mae is reporting a loss of $8.7 billion for the January-March quarter, and asking for an additional $8.5 billion in federal aid. The new request is more than three times the $2.6 billion in government aid it sought in the final three months of last year.

The five-bedroom Mediterranean-style mansion is for sale in Oakland, Fla., for nearly $2 million. Once owned by Khalil bin Laden — one of Osama bin Laden's brothers — Forbes recently named it one of the "creepiest abandoned mansions" in the U.S.

AT&T introduced Vonya McCann to the cellphone three decades ago.

A group of men came to her office at the Commerce Department to demonstrate how a plastic push-button phone cradled in a hard Samsonite briefcase could place calls without wires.

Now, as the head of Sprint Nextel’s Washington lobbying office, she’s emerged as a leading figure fighting to stop AT&T’s march to dominate the cellphone industry.

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A report from IDC indicates that Apple is now the second-largest smartphone vendor in the world, edging out Research In Motion.

Nokia continues to top the list, with about 24 percent of the world’s market share, but Apple is closing in with nearly 19 percent.

Overall, the world smartphone market grew nearly 80 percent over the same period last year.

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