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The Department of Veterans Affairs is way ahead of the curve when it comes to electronic medical records, which it's been collecting for 25 years. The Million Veteran Project launched this year is an effort to pair the records with blood samples — which contain DNA — from 1 million veterans.

Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to the gun and bomb attacks that killed 77, many of them teenagers, also asked in court today to be allowed to speak to relatives of the victims. That request was denied.

Jack Raykovitz is leaving Second Mile in the hope that "my resignation brings with it ... restoration of faith" in the organization for at-risk children. Officials say the charity knew of allegations against founder Jerry Sandusky years ago.

The legal showdown will decide once and for all if the administration's sweeping law to extend insurance coverage to millions of Americans will stand. The court has scheduled more than five hours of oral arguments for the case.

The decision means it's possible there will be no professional basketball until the 2012-13 season. The sticking point: Sharing of revenue.

"It would be inappropriate to keep Joe Paterno's name on the trophy at this time," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany says.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent millions of dollars in Iowa in 2007 and 2008. He won the Ames Straw Poll but finished a distant second in the Iowa caucuses. This time, he's running a very different, and much smaller, campaign.

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