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  Reagan's son blasts purported sale of father's blood

  

  Posted 10:43 PM 5/22/2012 by CBS News

  An online auction house is accepting online bids for a glass vial purportedly containing a blood sample of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a claim that was called "outrageous" by the former president's son.

  According to PFCAuctions.com, the 5-inch glass vial contains dried blood (More)

  
  

• Big Story Follow UP

  Flotsam from Japanese tsunami hitting Alaska

  

  Posted 9:38 PM 5/22/2012 by Casey Wian (CNN)

  YAKUTAT, Alaska -- Residents of towns in the Alaska Panhandle have begun picking up plastic bottles, chunks of foam insulation and floating buoys from Japan's 2011 tsunami now turning up across the Pacific Ocean.

  "This is urethane spray building foam," Chris Pallister, president of the (More)

  
  

• The Great Outdoors

  Yellowstone ready for Memorial Day summer kick off

  

  Posted 8:58 PM 5/22/2012 by YNP Press Office

  While the official start of summer is still weeks away, summer season in Yellowstone really begins with the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

  All park entrances are open for the season. The road over Dunraven Pass linking Canyon Village and Tower Fall opens for the season on Friday morning (More)

  
  

• Continuous News

  Passenger's implant claim triggers flight diversion

  

  Posted 3:24 PM 5/22/2012 by CNN

  A passenger who claimed to have a device surgically implanted inside her spurred authorities to divert a North Carolina-bound jetliner to Maine on Tuesday, federal officials said.

  Doctors aboard US Airways Flight 787 examined the woman and found no sign of recent scars, according to the office (More)

  
  

• Continuous News

  Joplin commemorates anniversary of deadly tornado

  

  Posted 1:34 PM 5/22/2012 by CBS

  JOPLIN, Mo. - A year after a massive tornado tore through Joplin, reminders of the storm's fury are plentiful - from the glaring absence of century-old trees in the city's central neighborhoods to the ghostly shell of St. John's Regional Medical Center.

  Residents, hospital workers and (More)

  
  

• National News

  'Security issue' forces US Airways flight diversion

  

  Posted 10:59 AM 5/22/2012 by CNN

  A US Airways jet from Paris was diverted to Bangor, Maine, because of an unspecified "security issue" Tuesday, an airline spokesman said.

  US Airways Flight 787 was headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, said spokesman Andrew Christie. The airline's website (More)

  
  

• National News

  Historic launch of private rocket heralds new era

  

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  Posted 7:46 AM 5/22/2012 by CNN

  A new era in space exploration dawned Tuesday as a slender rocket powered into the dark Florida sky before sunrise, carrying the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station.

  "We're now back on the brink of a new future, a future that embraces the innovation the private (More) • Video (1)

  
  

• Entertainment News

  Bee Gees' Robin Gibb influenced music beyond disco

  

  Posted 9:39 PM 5/21/2012 by Elaine Quijano - CBS News

  The pop music world has lost another giant.

  Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

  It happened just a few days after the death of Donna Summer.

  Gibb and his brothers had a career, and influence, that went far beyond the disco (More)

  
  

• Developing Story

  Chicago braces for final day of anti-NATO protests as demonstrators march on Boeing HQ

  

  Posted 9:23 PM 5/21/2012 by CBS News

  CHICAGO - Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters marching to Boeing Corp. headquarters, a day after police clashed with a group of demonstrators at the end of a march protesting the NATO Summit.

  CBS Station WBBM correspondent Marissa Bailey reports the demonstration (More)

  
  

• National News

  NATO signs off on Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan

  Posted 5:19 PM 5/21/2012 by CNN

  NATO leaders signed off Monday on President Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters at the (More)