Chatter: What we're hearing

Need to know: The weekend's deadly Mexico shootings of two Americans in the border city of Ciudad Juarez comes amid U.S. alerts urging Americans to limit travel to parts of Mexico during spring break.

Want to know: A priest convicted of sexually abusing children — and whose subsequent move from one location to another the pope approved when he was a German cardinal — has been suspended, his archdiocese announced Monday.

Dull but important: The U.S. military handed over a prison and nearly 3,000 inmates to the Iraqi government on Monday as it prepares to leave Iraq seven years after ousting Saddam Hussein.

Just because: A pilot’s drunkenness was a contributing cause of a commercial airline crash in Russia in 2008, Russian prosecutors said Monday, reaching a conclusion extraordinarily rare in airline crash investigations.

Wacky: For astronauts worried about their future with NASA, good news: a private company is hiring. Bigelow Aerospace, a Las Vegas-based firm headed by hotelier Robert Bigelow, owner of Budget Suites of America, posted a recruitment notice for astronauts on its website. Only professionals with space flight experience need apply, which limits the pool of applicants worldwide to little more than 500.

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