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'Stop Kony' video puts spotlight on Ugandan warlord

Airs Friday, June 1, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

A new survey indicates that 29 percent of American adults now own a tablet computer and/or an e-reader. That number went up 11 percent in just a few weeks, a sure sign that the gadgets were given as holiday gifts and have reached the point of mass acceptance.

Oil and gas executives are meeting this week in Houston to discuss how to survive falling demand, $40-a-barrel oil and evaporating investment in new projects. Most of the company chiefs who are attending the annual conference organized by Cambridge Energy Research Associates have been through some of these cycles before, but not at this dizzying pace.

The history of rocket launches is filled with failure, but out of those failures came knowledge that helped lead to success, experts note. The question is whether North Korea's latest failure will put it on a successful path.

Law enforcement officers working in falling snow searched a Southern California mountain Friday for the former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.

Survivors of the shooting spree on Utoya island in Norway have described hiding and fleeing into the water to escape the gunman, but a police briefing Saturday detailed for the first time how long the terror lasted — and how long victims waited for help.

Nearly two years after the recession ended, the pace of construction is inching along at less than half the level considered healthy. Housing starts fell 10.6 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And fewer new homes mean fewer jobs.

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