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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Turkey for meetings with that country's leaders today. And she announced that the president will make a similar trip soon. "President Obama will be visiting Turkey within the next month or so." Clinton said the US and Turkey share a commitment to democracy, religious freedom and a belief in free market. The predominantly Muslim NATO ally is also seen as critical in assisting the US withdrawal from Iraq and combating a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.

Famed newspaper editor Jim Bellows has died in Santa Monica, California at the age of 86. He helped transform struggling newspapers in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, and he helped make the show Entertainment Tonight a TV hit. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates has more.

Jim Bellows liked to say he made a career of making the second best newspapers in town livelier and more reader-friendly. A slight man with a sixth sense for the next big newspaper thing, Bellows created the now-standard political gossip column while heading the Washington Star in the early 70s. He gave the Los Angeles Times a run for its money when he ran the Los Angeles Herald Examiner in the early 80s. There he created a style section that is now widely imitated by other papers. But it was his work at the New York Herald Tribune in 1960s that changed to journalism forever. Bellows promoted promising writers such as Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin. He hired Clay Felker to edit the Trib's Sunday magazine, which would later morph into the highly successful New York magazine. Bellows often said a newspaper had two primary functions, to print the news and raise hell. He did both for decades. Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR News.

Daylight Saving Time begins overnight or rather 2 am Sunday, to be exact. That means people in all states except Arizona and Hawaii turn their clocks forward one hour.