Nancy Reagan is recovering from a number of broken ribs after a fall in March, a representative for the former first lady said Tuesday.

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Nancy Reagan nursing broken ribs

Radio 5 live asked the director of the Reagan Foundation about the sale of a vial of blood taken from President Reagan.

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AUDIO: ‘Ronald Reagan’s blood’ for sale?

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation threatened legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.

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The foundation of late US President Ronald Reagan expresses outrage after a vial said to have held a sample of his blood is offered for auction.

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Anger over ‘Reagan blood’ auction

“The Butler,” Lee Daniels’s adaptation of Wil Haygood’s 2008 Washington Post article about long-time White House butler Eugene Allen, has gained considerable heat at the Cannes Film Festival , where Nicole Kidman is said to be joining a cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Jane Fonda. (Fonda will play Nancy Reagan; no word on who Kidman would portray.) Read full article > >

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Three years ago, Adrienne Snelling wrote letters to her children and grandchildren explaining how she and her husband, Charles D. Snelling, decided to cope with her Alzheimer’s disease. Adrienne was 79 then and had been battling the illness for about four years. Charles, her husband of nearly 60 years, was her primary caretaker at their home in Fogelsville, Pa. She was an accomplished fine arts photographer; he was prominent in Republican circles and had recently stepped down as chairman of the authority overseeing Reagan and Dulles airports and the construction of Metro’s new $6 billion Silver Line. Read full article > >

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Former MWAA chief and wife with Alzheimer’s ‘deliberate’ about end-of-life plans, daughter says

When I was in college, in the early 1980s, I invited Ronald Reagan’s defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger , to give a speech on campus. At the time, U.S. colleges were hotbeds of opposition to the Reagan administration, especially to its defense policies. Sure enough, as Weinberger began to speak, a series of students stood up and began to heckle. One after another, they rose and chanted a single line, “Deterrence is a lie!” Read full article > >

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Deterring Iran is the best option

The match: one passenger vs. Spirit Airlines. The arena: a round-trip flight from Reagan National to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The challenge: to dodge those pesky airline fees and claim the prize, the lowest of the low airfares. Read full article > >

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Spirit Airlines: Cheap flights, but can you avoid fees?

In an unnoticed 1992 speech, Newt Gingrich in a single utterance took aim not only at a beloved conservative icon but also at a core tenet of the conservative movement: that government must be limited. Read full article > >

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Gingrich archives show his public praise, private criticism of Reagan

James Pethokoukis and Joe Weisenthal have been arguing over who presided over the more impressive recovery: Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan? This is, I think, a mostly useless exercise. Obama and Reagan presided over different kinds of recessions that began at different times and ended in different ways. Imagine you had two doctors, one who had treated a patient for a drug overdose, and another who was treating a patient who recently suffered a heart attack. Would flatly comparing the speed of the two patients’ recoveries tell you anything about the doctors? Of course not. So too with Obama and Reagan. But if you do want to compare the two presidents, here are some things to keep in mind: Read full article > >

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Comparing Obama and Reagan’s economic records

If you heard a loud “gulp” Tuesday night after President Obama’s State of the Union address , it probably came from Republican political strategists as they realized their party’s odds of capturing the White House this fall are getting longer. Obama may be no Ronald Reagan, but he’s no Jimmy Carter, either. Read full article > >

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Greed is good? The GOP seems to be okay with that.

And then there were five … which made for a feisty evening of misstatements. We focused on 11, and may come back for more later in the week. Let’s take them in the order in which they were made. “As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.” Read full article > >

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Fact Checking the Fox News-WSJ debate in South Carolina

Gingrich opens with Reagan compliment.

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GOP Debate Opens on Financial Policy

The contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has been described as a reality show and a circus. But what’s happening inside the GOP is quite rational and easily explained. The obvious Republican nominee was Texas Gov. Rick Perry — obvious because his government-bashing, ideology-mongering, secessionist-flirting persona was a perfect fit for a Republican primary electorate that has shifted far to the right of Ronald Reagan. Read full article > >

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A GOP reality-show race, thanks to the Tea Party

Lakia McDuffie was sleeping in her fourth-floor apartment at Wingate Towers & Gardens in Southwest Washington when a light flooding into her bedroom woke her up. Then her windows rattled. She wondered what was going on. It was a plane landing at Reagan National Airport . Since that night in the spring, incoming airliners have regularly flown by her building at late hours, McDuffie said. Read full article > >

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D.C. communities all shook up as Reagan National-bound planes change their landing patterns