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Christian. >> reporter: he went on, trying to curry favor by disparaging jews, republicans and the tea party. >> they believe in sort of the white, middle america, gun-toting, i mean, it's scary. they're seriously racist, racist people. >> reporter: the donors were offering nothing more than a sting. controversial conservative filmmaker james o'keefe ran that sting. npr's executive also stepped down. it could not have happened at a worse time. republicans wanted to eliminate more than 400 million federal dollars that go to public broadcasting, including npr. so it didn't help when schiller sai...

Next month. >> the people working on this machine didn't skip a beat today. there were no big, you know, emotional outbursts and tears and all that kind of stuff. >> reporter: some said they didn't think the end of the shuttle program would truly sink in until after the last missions of "endeavour" and "atlantis." >> we've got two more flights. we need to keep the focus on those flights and stay diligent and keep working those flights just as hard as we did this flight. >> reporter: nasa planned to move "endeavour" out to the launchpad for final mission but a forecast of afternoon thunderstorm...

Welcome back, everybody. for many americans the crisis in libya is something going on halfway around the world and really has little to do with their lives. but for others, it is something that really does hit right at home. >> absolutely. that includes a libyan american hip-hop artist who has been inspired by his countrymen. aaron katersky has more. ♪ >> reporter: you've got such a compelling backstory. how did you get to where you are? >> my father was actually in jail in libya for five years. he was tortured every single day. he was part of the student protest that was against gadhafi's r...

Prompted three weeks of protests in madison heads to the state assembly, where it should pass easily. and republican governor scott walker who championed the bill all along will sign it into law. >> they are so eager to take away the rights that people of this state have enjoyed for 50 years -- >> reporter: those 14 absent democrats are certain to return and the political furor is likely to grow. chris bury, abc news. the severe storms that have ripped through the south may have spawned at least two dozen tornadoes. at least three of them touched down in southern louisiana, packing winds as ...

>> no, mr. chairman -- >> reporter: wisconsin senate republicans effectively did an end run in an 18-1 vote they approved that controversial measure, stripping public employee unions of collective bargaining rights. >> this has been building for three weeks. we were at the point now where we thought, you know, all indications were that the democrats were not returning any time soon. we needed to move the process forward. >> reporter: they did it with a legislative maneuver, by removing the proposal from a budget bill, they bypassed the need for a quorum. democrats are outraged. in a statement,...