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The 50th anniversary of the first two American combat casualties of the Vietnam War will be marked Wednesday (July 8) at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial.

A group of House Republican lawmakers want all future aspirants for the White House to produce a U.S. birth certificate to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president.

Until President Obama and his family settle on a local church to attend, their fill-in pastor will be a former All-American offensive lineman who is now a Navy lieutenant who served in Iraq, and a distant relation of Johnny Cash.

A few Sundays ago in Baghdad, Christopher Hill threw a lacrosse ball on the U.S. Embassy grounds with Terry Barnich, an aging player from Georgetown University, vintage 1977, and talked up their scheme to organize a team of exiles in Iraq.

There's one corner of the country where Democrats are growing increasingly disenchanted with President Obama, and it's right in his front yard.

In the District of Columbia, which gave 93 percent of its votes to Obama last November, dismay is turning to anger in some Democratic leaders, who have totted up a list of instances they see as disses of their city.

The Federal Air Marshal Service is a "useless" agency staffed with under-worked officers who make few arrests, a Tennessee congressman is charging.

A key member of a U.S. Senate panel is drafting legislation to plug a hole in government oversight that allows seafood merchants to routinely rip off customers by substituting cheap fish for more expensive fillets.

On tap for the coming week is a House vote that would both welcome God to a prominent place in the U.S. Capitol complex and correct an embarrassing flub of the nation's motto.

President Obama's first official overture to the gay and lesbian community, granting a handful of benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, did little to quiet gay-rights activists who want him to push for repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.

The shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this past week by an avowed hater of Jews came not long after the Anti-Defamation League reported that anti-Semitic incidents in the country were down for the fourth year in a row.