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• JFK anniversary marked at Dallas shooting site
DALLAS - About 500 people crowded Saturday into the plaza where John F. Kennedy was shot 45 years ago, all agreeing it was right to remember a pivotal moment in American history, even if they didn't all believe the official line. People stood ...
• Bank regulator played advocate not enforcer
This year, the government has seized three of the largest institutions regulated by OTS, including IndyMac Bancorp, Washington Mutual -- the largest bank in U.S. history to go bust -- and on Friday evening, Downey Savings and Loan Association. The ...
• American history museum back in business
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell read President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on Friday morning to a crowd of at least 200 people on the museum’s steps. Costumed historic characters portraying George and Martha Washington, among ...
• Family history can trump breast cancer test
WASHINGTON - If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary ...
• Man tells police he stabbed Japanese official
Japan has a history of attacks against politicians and officials by extremists. In 1995, Takaji Kunimatsu, then a police chief, was shot by a gunman suspected of links to a doomsday cult he was investigating. Kunimatsu survived despite serious wounds ...