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Dr. McKusick was a cardiologist who went on to become a founder of medical genetics and helped make the discipline a central part of medicine.

There are wrong ways to dismiss someone. But is there really a right way to do it?

A 1941 travel guide recounted the story of an audacious attempt by a group of would-be rebels to form a new state.

Citing the need to restore confidence in the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said he would set aside his objections to the legislation.

Barack Obama pledged to protect Israel and prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Mr. Wick was the longest-serving director of the United States Information Agency.

As Texas Rangers and prosecutors prepared to arrest members of a polygamous sect, advocates and critics of the sect headed to Washington for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Hurricane Dolly brought a deluge of rain and gusts of high wind, raising fears of flooding in the region.

Presidential candidates are usually able to count on their home state, but Senator John McCain’s chances in Arizona are somewhat less assured.

A tugboat without a properly licensed pilot was pushing a barge that collided with a tanker, resulting in an oil spill that closed a stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans.

Making it increasingly clear that the Congressional debate is more a matter of political positioning than policy, the Senate failed to agree on the ground rules for considering an energy bill.

Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco coaxed a secret code out of a city engineer who prosecutors say had effectively hijacked a large part of the city’s computer systems.

Karl Rove denied that he had anything to do with the Justice Department’s bribery prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.

Senator John McCain was to take a helicopter to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, but the campaign canceled the trip.

John McCain chided Barack Obama for “a false depiction of what actually happened” in Iraq, but in giving his chronology of events, Mr. McCain gave what critics said was his own false depiction.

A day after a judge cleared the way for the construction of an athletic center at the University of California, Berkeley, protesters remained in a stand of oaks that would be uprooted by the plan.

All six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed off Guam were killed, the Air Force said.

A woman who helped her boyfriend and his mother steal more than $8 million from an armored car company last year was sentenced to five years in prison.

A Taunton woman fatally shot herself soon after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

The federal minimum wage increases by 70 cents, to $6.55 per hour from $5.85.