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We commemorate The Beatles' music with a look back to interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Martin and Pete Best as World Cafe's 20th-anniversary celebration continues.

If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has his way, New York City will no longer fingerprint food stamp recipients. He says fingerprinting stigmatizes needy people and stops them from applying for assistance. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg disagrees, arguing that without fingerprinting, fraud would escalate.

Facebook will file the paperwork on Wednesday for what's widely expected to be one of the biggest initial public stock offering debuts, according to The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Facebook could raise as much as $10 billion. A Facebook IPO was rumored for much of last year, but the company's been tight-lipped.

In a protest that marked a resurgence for the movement, 400 people were arrested. More confrontation is expected in Washington, D.C., as authorities begin enforcing a no-camping rule in a downtown park.

Mitt Romney's last three rivals have started preparing their backers for a disappointment on primary night in Florida. But they still insist they're in the race until the August convention. Anything less than a show of absolute confidence has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom.

The Commerce Department also said that consumer spending was flat, meaning Americans chose to save the extra money.

Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish judge who indicted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, is now on trial in Madrid. His alleged crime? Investigating his own country's fascist past, and charging the late dictator Francisco Franco with murder.

Burmese pythons have been slithering around south Florida for decades, but scientists now say the invasive constrictors are so bad, they're eating their way through the swamps. The snakes have decimated populations of mammals like raccoons, possums and white-tailed deer.

The FBI raised eyebrows last week with a document that details plans for a map-based app that would help the agency gather intelligence from sources like Facebook and Twitter. Translating tweets and developing "a dictionary of 'tweet' lingo" are among the app's desired functionalities.

Only on the Web: Video of a young girl who seems able to say just about any word backwards is going lariv (that's "viral").