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  • Travel website Orbitz has found that people who use Apple's Mac computers spend more money on hotels per night than their PC counterparts and are now showing Mac users different options. All Things Considered host Melissa Block talks to Dana Mattioli of the Wall Street Journal about how Apple may become its own demographic for retailers.
  • The AP tabulated the ages of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. They are older than the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. On average, the Stones are closing in on 69. The Supremes are spry young kids who average just under 67.
  • Najaf in southern Iraq is beginning to feel the pain of neighboring Iran's economic woes. Business around Shiite sites, which usually draw scores of Iranians for the holy days of Ashura, is way down.
  • Algerians received a double blow when an oil and gas plant was taken over in the desert last month. Algerians thought those kinds of attacks were a thing of the past, and many were angry when Western countries criticized the way Algeria's security forces responded.
  • On Morning Edition, Neda Ulaby looks at television's most powerful comedy hitmaker.
  • A massive car bomb explosion in one of Hezbollah's Beirut strongholds left dozens of people wounded. It's the latest and deadliest response to the militant group's moves to support the embattled Syrian government's battle against rebel forces.
  • In Myanmar, resistance to the military's February coup is increasing. So is the military's brutal effort to squash it, as Myanmar slides further into chaos.
  • "They say, 'Thefilos, tomorrow I'm going to need 50,000 euros, cash,' " says a Greek bank teller.
  • As tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela continue to intensify, some U.S. lawmakers are concerned at least one of President Trump's boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea may have been a war crime.
  • NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about the debate in Congress to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year.
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