NORTH KOREA . . . REALITY CHECK

The U.S.-North Korea talks over Pyongyang's nuclear program may not be as upbeat as U.S. officials predicted before discussions resumed Friday in Geneva after a six-week break. The two sides today attempted to bridge new gaps that arose over the weekend, with no reports of progress. The U.S. is complaining that North Korea suddenly won't allow previously agreed-to U.N. inspections of its nuke plants; Pyongyang is crying foul over a joint American-Japanese naval exercise off the Korean coast.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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