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04/27/2011 - Updated 10:31 AM ET
Image released by the White House on Wednesday shows a copy of the long form of President Obama's birth certificate from Hawaii.
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Nation & World

Farmland south of Poplar Bluff, Mo., is inundated with floodwaters from the Black River.

Levees strain in Midwest; volunteers keep fighting

Many communities in central U.S. are battling to stave off rivers surging from rain.

Money

Compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Traditional incandescent bulbs on their way out

Lighting revolution -- favoring more energy efficient, less polluting bulbs -- starts Jan. 1.

Sports

North Carolina trio looks to rebound in NFL

Marvin Austin, Greg Little and Robert Quinn have a lot in common unfortunately.

Life

The Queen of Soul still reigns supremeicons

Aretha Franklin has a new album, a trimmer figure and is working on a big-screen bio-pic.

Travel

Virgin Galactic's spacecraft.

Space tourism comes closer to fruitionicons

The idea of an ordinary person taking a trip beyond Earth's atmosphere is no longer fantasy.

Your Life

A wedding without diabetes worries

Need a special diet on that special day? No need to forgo a feast or cancel the cake.

Tech

Endeavour glides toward a landing on Kennedy Space Center's Runway 15 in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 20, 1996. The shuttle's final flight is set for Friday.

Did investment in NASA shuttle program pay off?

Turning shuttles into a cheap, easy method of space travel was harder than expected.

Opinion

Visiting the most populous Muslim country: President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama tour a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia with Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub last fall.

Obama's America does not bully the world

Column: Is hands-off approach in Libya weak and deferential, or simply a realist's foreign policy?

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