LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) -- Fred Thompson's term as District Attorney Arthur Branch on "Law & Order" has ended with the actor and former U.S. senator asking to be released from the show.

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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Officials want to find out if a bed found in a storage shed is the one where President Abraham Lincoln slept during an overnight stay in Pittsburgh in 1861.

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