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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are seeking Pentagon permission for holding ceremonies in the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, where Buckles will be buried. Talks were still going on in the Senate about a resolution, offered by West Virginia's two Democratic senators, to approve use of the Rotunda to honor Buckles, but the indecision was frustrating Buckles' family. "The leadership of Congress is standing in the way" of a Rotunda ceremony, said David DeJonge, Buckles' biographer and the family spokesman. "We want the highest level of respect for all that Frank Buckles stands for," he said. "It's not about Frank, it is about the passing of a generation." Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the author of a House resolution approving a Rotunda ceremony, still would have that as her first choice, said her spokeswoman.

A lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan, the confessed assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, plans to present new evidence at a parole board hearing tomorrow, suggesting that the Palestinian did not act alone, was potentially brain washed and cannot remember anything about the 40-year-old shooting

Two former Tulsans, one of whom became caught up in the conspiracy theories swirling around the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, have been indicted in a 2004 Arizona bombing.... bombing was part of a wider conspiracy "to promote racial discord by destroying buildings, facilities and real property of both the government and businesses whose activities defendants believed conflicted with their goals."...

"I didn't want to knit anymore. I had just lost my joy," said Salyers, who fell five stories after the bombing and was discovered under a pile of rubble. "But if I didn't grab back on to what I love, they may as well have killed me." Some of her colleagues at the U.S. Customs Office on the fifth floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building recovered a basket of yarn, covered with debris, and returned it to her. Salyers said she became motivated to return to knitting after learning that other survivors had similar experiences — one man who lost a daughter and a grandson who no longer enjoyed woodworking and a woman who couldn't start sewing again. She finally used the yarn to craft a sweater with 168 stars, one for each victim of the April 19, 1995, blast... The "First Person: Stories of Hope" lecture series will continue every Friday during the summer at the museum.

The 1930s-era Meadow Gold sign glows as it once did along historic Route 66... The sign is at the same height and facing the same direction as before, but it's about a mile west of its original site.

While studying genealogy on the Internet, she came across the controversy surrounding possible photographs of the first president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I went, 'Oh, well I have a picture of him,'" she says.... could be the most accurate known image of the church leader....

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle." ...spell device, often meant to attract and trap negative energy....

Eugene Noble was reunited a year ago with the plane, the Snafu Special

...They were based together in England and they flew countless sorties together, including the invasion of Normandy, the failed invasion of the Netherlands, the resupply of troops at Bastogne and finally into Germany. When the war ended in 1945, they parted company and didn't keep in touch.... four years ago that Neblett and Hewitt discovered that they both lived in Tulsa.... hardly recognized each other at first. But then they started talking....

British veterans watched Friday as members of the Parachute Regiment dropped into Normandy in the area where they landed 65 years ago.

A history of tobacco regulation Major events in the federal government's history with cigarette makers. May 30, 2009 Tobacco regulation 1964: The surgeon general issues a landmark report linking smoking to lung cancer. 1965: Warning labels are mandated on cigarette packs stating, "Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health." 1969: Cigarette advertising is banned on TV and radio. 1979: Smoking is restricted in all federal buildings in the United States. 1990: Smoking is banned on all U.S. commercial airline flights. 1994: Mississippi becomes the first state to sue the tobacco industry to recover costs for tobacco-related illnesses. 1998: The tobacco industry agrees to pay $206 billion, which will help fund anti-tobacco programs, as part of a settlement agreement with 46 states. 2000: U.S. Supreme Court rejects a Clinton administration effort to give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco. 2009: Congress approves the largest-ever increase in the federal cigarette tax, boosting it 62 cents, to $1.01 a pack. Source: Office of the Surgeon General

Ever since the mid 14th century, Büsingen has had Austrian overlords — at the end of the 17th century, the abduction, trial and death sentence of the Lord of Büsingen at the hands of the neighbouring Swiss canton of Schaffhausen almost led to war between Austria and Switzerland. It's said that due to this near-war, the Austrians decided to never relinquish control over Büsingen to the Swiss, just to spite them. When Austria sold its rights to the nearby villages of Ramsen and Dörflingen to the canton of Zürich in 1770, Büsingen effectively became an enclave within Switzerland.

Free after 32 years in prison, Sara Jane Moore says she was wrong, "misled" and "mistaken" in trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in September 1975. However, she added: "I still believe if I hadn't done it, someone else would." [What th...?]