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Three years ago, the Dairy Queen closed in Roscoe, Texas – a sure sign of bad times. But these days, people are moving back to the West Texas town, with its growing reputation as a sweet spot for wind-farm energy.

The Other Side of the Rainbow

The Bush administration is using the law's fifth anniversary to urge reauthorization without changes. But the process won't be as simple as the adminstration once hoped.

The Supreme Court has upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the law prohibiting an abortion procedure known medically as "intact dilation and extraction." The procedure is performed most often during the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy.

Discovery and a crew of seven astronauts blast off for the international space station. An earlier attempt was scrubbed two weeks ago because of a faulty fuel gauge. Hear special coverage of the first shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster two and a half years ago.

This weekend, the Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery. The symbolic measure describes slavery as the most horrendous of all depredations of human rights, and a violation of the founding ideals of the nation.

We take a look at specific challenges that war veterans face as they try and find normalcy after leaving Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is the only State-run prison in San Diego County. It was built in 1989 and was designed to accommodate 2,208 medium to high-custody inmates -- today more than double that number, 4,680 inmates, call the facility home. What are conditions like for the prison population?

The Studio Museum in Harlem is showing a first-ever U.S. exhibit of comic strips from Africa. Three dozen artists deal with postmodern daily life and the problems facing 20 African countries: war, corruption, poverty, sexism and child slavery.

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