Michael Copperthite has butter, sugar and flour in his blood. His great-great-grandfather was Henry Copperthite, the so-called “Pie King” of Georgetown and founder of the Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Co. Michael loves nothing more than to wax poetic about his family, a line of piemakers dating to the Civil War era. Read full article > >

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Resurrecting a slice of history? Easy as pie.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the head of the civil service, is to step down from his post at the end of the year.

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UK’s top civil servant steps down

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 89, one of the bravest and most dynamic leaders of the civil rights movement, who survived bombings, beatings and dozens of arrests in his efforts to end segregation in Birmingham, Ala., and throughout the South, died Oct. 5 at a Birmingham hospital. His daughter Carolyn Shuttlesworth said the cause of death was not known. Rev. Shuttlesworth had been in poor health since having a stroke four years ago. Read full article > >

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Fred L. Shuttlesworth, courageous civil rights fighter, dies at 89

two years ago, drugmaker Eli Lilly pleaded guilty to illegally marketing its blockbuster antipsychotic Zyprexa for elderly patients. Lilly paid $1.4 billion in criminal penalties and settlements in four civil lawsuits. But a doctor named as a co-defendant in one suit — for allegedly taking kickbacks to prescribe the drug extensively at nursing homes — never was pursued. Read full article > >

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Doctors avoid penalties in lawsuits against medical firms alleging kickbacks, fraud

A chronicle of the civil and military aviation response to the hijackings was prepared by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, but never completed or released.

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Newly Published Audio Provides Real-Time View of 9/11 Attacks

Bernice King scanned a sea of more than a thousand faces in the great church — black, white, Asian and Latino — and described her life as the youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She was 5 years old when he was assassinated in 1968. Because he was so often on the road during the civil rights struggle, she said, “I came to know Dr. King more than I knew Daddy.” But after his death and her own call to the ministry, she said from the pulpit on Saturday, “the Daddy I came to know was a servant of a high God, obedient.” Read full article > >

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Thai prisoners are routinely shackled and kept in shockingly overcrowded conditions, says Bangkok-based Union for Civil Liberties.

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Thai inmates ‘routinely shackled’

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her family visited historical sites in the D.C. area Sunday night and Monday morning, deftly avoiding the press. On Tuesday night, Palin traveled “incognito,” as she put it on her blog, to the Lincoln and World War II memorials. On Monday morning she visited the National Archives and Mount Vernon, before visting Fort McHenry in Baltimore. From there, she is reportedly headed to the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam. (We’re following along with this map.) Read full article > >

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Sarah Palin covertly visits D.C. sites

Clashes between government forces and opposition tribesmen spread beyond the capital, Sana, drawing in new tribal factions and widening the civil conflict.

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Fighting Worsens in Yemen

The grave of Robert Selden Garnett, killed in Virginia in 1861, has been found in Green-Wood Cemetery, where a Civil War sesquicentennial commemoration is planned.

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City Room: Confederate General Buried Far From the Battlefield

Sri Lanka’s president calls for mass protests against a UN report said to allege that war crimes were committed at the end of the civil war.

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Libya’s Misrata has been filled with migrants desperate to escape the violence, although reports say up to 1,000 people have been killed in this port city since the civil war broke out in February. Around 6,500 migrants have been trapped in Misrata,…

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Thousands of Refugees Flood Port

There’s something appropriate, if not prophetic, in the fact that the Confederate cemetery in Richmond is called Hollywood. From the inception of American cinema, the Civil War has provided narrative fodder and an inexhaustible supply of action, emotion and heightened drama, leading to a perfect marriage of history and myth.

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Robert Redford’s ‘The Conspirator’ and the lost Union cause

“Old Bald Head”; the first defense of temporary insanity; a nervous breakdown; and even our country’s worst president—while many of these descriptions sound like they might be out of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest , they’re actually referring to some of the most bizarre individuals to come out of America’s Civil War. A century-and-a-half has passed since the conflict began, when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. Below is a gallery featuring some of the more unusual people involved in the war, their eccentricities at least as odd now as they were fifteen decades ago. Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow See more photos of the Civil War’s African-American fighters , the portraits of photographer Mathew Brady , and at LIFE.com .

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The Civil War’s Strangest Personalities: LIFE Photos

The commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War is triggering many re-enactments across America’s Southern states.

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VIDEO: Civil War re-enacted in US states