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  • Busch urges racing officials to make double doable

    Kurt Busch would like to try racing 1,100 miles some Memorial Day weekend.

  • In The Pits: So far so good for NASCAR's new car

    The only certainty at the unveiling of NASCAR's new car was that the Gen-6 was aesthetically pleasing.

  • Richard Nixon

    PRUDEN: A White House under siege by reality

    “Sequestration,” which sounds like an impolite stomach ailment that almost nobody can spell and few understand, now gets really interesting. With the sequestration deadline having passed, the White House is under siege by reality.

  • Sergey Naryshkin, speaker of the Russian Duma, attends the opening of a Russian exhibition at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. In remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, the ceremony marked the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Russian soldiers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Holocaust victims mourned at Auschwitz and beyond

    Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again.

  • Opera about Nazi atrocity shown in Austria

    Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's Parliament to watch the world premiere of an opera depicting how the Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II.

  • Jersey Shore town OKs deal to rebuild boardwalk

    The boardwalk where generations of families and teens got their first taste of the Jersey Shore and where the MTV reality show of the same name was filmed is about to be rebuilt following its destruction in Superstorm Sandy.

  • LPGA adds a tournament in The Bahamas

    The LPGA Tour has a new tournament this year that will be played in The Bahamas.

  • SIMMONS: Saluting America's veterans

    Veterans Day urges us to salute all living service members, the very people who share your house of worship, live down the block, work at the local grocer or beauty shop, teach our children, who did exactly what was asked of them — serve their country.

  • David Jiminez lost his leg from the same crucifix where he prayed while his wife was recovering from cancer. The Mexican immigrant is now seeking $3 million from the church where he was hurt while cleaning the crucifix, but the Archdiocese of New York says it has no liability and is challenging his lawsuit.  (Associated Press)

    Man injured while cleaning crucifix sues church

    David Jimenez was so elated about his wife's recovery from cancer that he offered to clean the large crucifix outside the Hudson Valley church where he spent many hours praying for her to beat the disease. On Memorial Day 2010, he was scrubbing grime off the cross when the 600-pound marble statuary toppled over and crushed his right leg.

  • N.Y. man who lost leg in crucifix mishap sues church

    A trial has been scheduled for early next year in the lawsuit filed against an upstate New York church by a man whose leg had to be amputated after a 600-pound crucifix fell on him.

  • President Bush greets Artie Muller, executive director of Rolling Thunder, and singer Nancy Sinatra at the White House in 2004. The motorcycle group is strongly supporting Mitt Romney for president. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway: Thundering for Romney

    Mitt Romney's got the biker vote. Rolling Thunder, the exuberant nonprofit membership organization for motorcycle enthusiasts, military vets and old-school patriots are near unanimous in their support of Mr. Romney following a vote Saturday during a conference in the nation's capital.

  • Vietnam vet Plumley dies; featured in war movie

    Basil L. Plumley, a renowned career soldier whose exploits as an Army infantryman were portrayed in a book and the movie "We Were Soldiers," has died at 92 _ an age his friends are amazed that he lived to see.

  • Red Sox fire Valentine after 1 tumultuous season

    The Boston Red Sox found out too late that Bobby Valentine wasn't the manager to straighten out a clubhouse of coddled veterans.

  • Red Sox act swiftly, fire Valentine after 1 season

    The Boston Red Sox thought Bobby Valentine would restore order to a coddled clubhouse that disintegrated during the 2011 pennant race.

  • Red Sox fire Valentine after 1 tumultuous season

    The Boston Red Sox thought Bobby Valentine would restore order to a coddled clubhouse that disintegrated during the 2011 pennant race.

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