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Tuesday, December 25, 2012  Charles Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y.

Monday, November 26, 2012  According to both Hanna and Moore, the goal is to have a new president by the beginning of the fiscal year.

Thursday, November 08, 2012  n 8-foot-tall bronze statue of President John F. Kennedy now stands in downtown Fort Worth, where he gave his last public speeches before his assassination hours later in nearby Dallas.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012  Space shuttle Endeavour has landed in Houston for a one-day stop on its trek west to retirement in a California museum.

Friday, July 08, 2011  Updated with full video of launch: "Let's light this fire one more time," Commander Christopher Ferguson said just before taking flight.

Monday, May 16, 2011  Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched.

Friday, April 29, 2011  NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit.

Thursday, January 20, 2011  Analysis: In a country still seeking answers, does Kennedy's call to greatness still resonate?

Monday, November 22, 2010  The Dallas Police Department has awarded a certificate of merit to the man responsible for reporting the shooting of officer J.D. Tippit minutes after President John F. Kennedy's assassination 47 years ago.

Monday, October 04, 2010  The Supreme Court began a new era Monday with three women serving together for the first time, Elena Kagan taking her place at the end of the bench and quickly joining in the give-and-take.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010  The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs one month after her license was suspended following her guilty plea to driving while impaired by alcohol, state police said Tuesday.

Friday, August 20, 2010  Investigators are seeking the identity of a caller whose hijacking threat left a jetliner grounded and passengers wondering why two of their own were escorted off the aircraft by authorities.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  A passenger on an American Airlines flight that was grounded because of a phone threat says two people on the plane were taken away in handcuffs.

Monday, June 14, 2010  For decades after gunmen shot down his brothers, Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes chillingly specific, as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday.

Friday, June 04, 2010  The Checker cab once known as Lee Harvey Oswald's getaway car is going up on the auction block.