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The president will nominate Kwan, a two-time Olympic medalist figure skater, to serve as U.S. ambassador to Belize. He's tapping Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia.

Gary Greff's push to build a corridor of huge outdoor metal sculptures to lure tourist dollars loses steam. Volunteers drift away and money gets tight when the tourists fail to come. Greff goes it alone. Hear the second of this three-part series.

All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, Sotheby's said.

Acclaimed guitarist Derek Trucks knows something about musical lineage. He joined his uncle to play in The Allman Brothers Band, and has just released a new studio album with his own band. Songlines is named for a book about Aboriginal creation myth.

Caspar W. Weinberger, who served in the Nixon and Reagan cabinets as secretary of health, education and welfare and secretary of defense, has died at age 88. Nicknamed "Cap the Knife" for his budget-cutting reputation, he became a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Baseball takes another step in its recognition of the Negro Leagues' contributions to the sport when 39 candidates are voted on at the end of this month in a special election for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Something good recently happened to the town of Brinkley, Ark. The ivory-billed woodpecker, last seen in 1944, was rediscovered nearby. Independent radio producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens collaborate on a tribute to Brinkley and its rare bird.

Near Basra in southern Iraq, police find the body of an American freelance journalist -- Steven Vincent -- who was abducted Tuesday night and shot dead. Vincent had been living in Basra for three months while working on a book.

For Father's Day, we bring you an excerpt from a Charlottesville, Va. session, along with two bonus features. Their common theme: a heritage of caring, and love.

Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, where nearly 3,000 lives were lost. Sept. 11, 2001, was a day on which destinies, plans, and expectations were shaken, changed, or obliterated.