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Two of every three Americans have an ancestor who lived through the Civil War. It helps explain why so many people — re-enactors, treasure hunters, genealogists, collectors, hobbyists, preservationists, tourists, battlefield rats — feel so connected to a war that began 150 years ago.

Democrats and Republicans marked the occasion of the national health-care overhaul’s one-year anniversary on Wednesday with a bombardment of press releases, conference calls and events defending or critiquing the law.

In this undated product image provided by Starbucks, the company's new 40-year anniversary logo is seen on a cup at right. Other cups bearing the company's logo from over the years, from left, 1971, 1987, and 1992, are also shown. (AP Photo/Starbucks)Associated Press: Starbucks Corp. is giving its siren a facelift.

Clarence Thomas' wife may have opened up a can of worms with her bizarre apology request to Anita Hill last week. A former colleague and one-time girlfriend now tells the Washington Post that the Supreme Court justice was "obsessed with porn" as well as the bodies of his female coworkers.

Anniversary takes place amid controversies over an Islamic community center, a mosque planned near ground zero and a threat to burn Korans.

From New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to the Mississippi coast, people hit hard by Hurricane Katrina are paying homage to those killed by the storm's devastation.

There were reports of sporadic clashes between the police and protesters around Tehran, with reports of arrests varying from a handful to 200.

The former Chinese leader told the military to be ready to “shed some blood,” according to an unpublished diary.

A few weeks ago, as Steve Case was flying above Sterling, en route to Dulles International Airport, he looked down and saw the sprawling campus that is home to the company he co-founded 25 years ago this month -- the pioneering service that took millions of people online for the first time. Marking its silver anniversary, the company looks to reclaim its standing among Internet giants.

As the eerily familiar bleeps and bloops of video games past began eminating from my computer this morning, a friend nearby immediately recognized them and quipped that he'd spent "way too much time and brain cells playing that game".

That game is Pac-Man and it's featured in a playable Google Doodle for the next 48 hours on the Google homepage.