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FBI: Museum suspect will live to face charges

Jun. 13, 2009
The man charged with killing a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is expected to survive being shot by other security officers, the FBI said in a statement released Saturday. James von Brunn is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Stephen Tyrone Johns, who police...
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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