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Over the weekend, 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace died in Connecticut. Wallace, a star of that CBS news magazine for 40 years, stood out because of his seeming willingness to ask anybody anything. In 2005, he sat down for an interview with Steve Inskeep.

Renee Montagne talks to Christine Brennan of USA Today for a wrap-up of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. Bubba Watson won by beating Louis Oosthuizen on the second hole of a playoff.

Buford, Wyo., has been billed as America's smallest town. It has a convenience store, gas station and a population of one. That would be the town's longtime owner Don Sammons. Bids came from around the world, and a man from Vietnam won with a $900,000 offer.

Business soared for Security Disaster Shelters after company officials appeared on the TV show Doomsday Preppers. The company offers a solution for the worried person who has everything. The Summit Daily News says a shelter for a client near Chicago cost $500,000.

A DeKalb County judge will rule in a fifty-year-old rape case. Jury selection was expected Monday in the trial of Jack McCullough, but he opted to forgo…

Reports of Syrian forces firing on refugees across the border at a camp in Turkey throw the Tuesday cease-fire deadline into doubt.

Anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann studies the personal relationships evangelicals develop with God. In her book When God Talks Back, she explains how relationships with God are often cemented through the power of prayer.

Anti-gay sentiment in Liberia has been growing since the U.S. announced plans, last year, to promote LGBT rights overseas. New legislation in Liberia calls for punishing homosexuality with longer jail time, and one group has been handing out fliers targeting gay-rights supporters. Host Michel Martin talks with freelance journalist Tamasin Ford.

The social networking site is paying a reported $1 billion in stock and cash for the photo-sharing app.

The rapid pace of change in Myanmar has surprised many, including a reporter who has been visiting for years. On his latest trip, he says he felt as if he'd arrived in the wrong country: It was welcoming to journalists and openly celebrated opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.