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Family members and government officials finalized plans for a week-long series of services in honor of Ronald Reagan, the conservative icon and 40th president of the United States, who died Saturday from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Ray Suarez reports on…

The U.S. Army issued an order yesterday stopping soldiers set to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan in less than three months from retiring or resigning. Ray Suarez gets perspectives on this personnel management move and the current size of the…

Well ahead of the national conventions, the campaigns of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and President George W. Bush have already saturated the airwaves and Internet alike with political advertising. Terence Smith speaks with Brooks Jackson…

A recent rise in gas prices has refueled debate over the long-term use of oil as an affordable energy source. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Paul Roberts, author of a new book titled "The End of Oil," and Daniel Yergin,…