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This may be your worst nightmare: Reports are emerging from multiple states of alarming interactions with people in clown clothing.

A new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency details the covert program, which ran until 2003. But experts say the findings are unlikely to derail Iran's nuclear deal with world powers.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

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NPR's Joe Palca reports that a new study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences found that the risk of cancer from both natural and unnatural carcinogens in food is neglible. While some foods contain chemicals that can cause cancer in animals, the levels are so low they pose no real dange, the report says. That especially true when compared to the risk for cancer from other things, such as eating too much fat, the report says.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo that United Nations officials there are reporting an atmosphere of chaos and anarchy today in two Serb-populated suburbs that will soon come under the control of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. Fires are raging in both places, with reports of widespread theft and looting. Most Serb residents have already fled the area. Many of those remaining are asking NATO troops to protect them from local thugs.

Spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections WARREN WILLIAMS discusses the Human Rights Watch report. He says the head of the Michigan Department of Corrections is critical of the report. The report alleges there was sexual abuse of female inmates in Michigan state prisons.

Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas Friedman. He's just won his third Pulitzer Prize, this time for his "clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat." Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for his international reporting from Lebanon and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting from Isreal. He's also the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, and The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on the decision today in a lawsuit brought by the Food Lion supermarket chain against ABC concerning an expose broadcast on the ABC newsmagazine "PrimeTime Live" in 1992. The report examined questionable food-handling and stocking practices at the grocery chain. A federal jury found in favor of Food Lion, and found the producers of the report quilty of fraud and trespassing.

Last week the medical examiner in Oakland County, Michigan released an autopsy report of the last patient that Dr. Jack Kevorkian claims to have helped die. The medical examiner says he found no evidence of medical disease. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that today in speeches before the National Press Club in Washington DC Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger disputed the examiner's report and the retired pathologist affirmed his right as a physician to relieve suffering through assisting suicide.