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Air France: Missing plane likely crashed

Jun. 1, 2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he has little hope that rescuers will find survivors from an Air France plane that vanished in a thunderstorm over the Atlantic. Sarkozy met with relatives of the 228 people on board. "I said the truth to them: The prospects of finding survivors are very...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch