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A visit this week by Pakistan's spy chief, the head of that country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, to CIA headquarters in Virginia has produced some interesting media reports about relations between the two countries' intelligence agencies.

According to The New York Times:

Two beams of light shone into the sky before dawn this morning at South Carolina's Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago today.

The State says "the beams angled in different directions, signifying the directions taken by the Union and the Confederacy." The newspaper says it was a "solemn" beginning to the ceremony at the site.

It doesn't look like a doctor's office, but the patch of ground in front of the Petaluma Health Center in Sonoma County, Calif., is an important part of the center's efforts to combat obesity in kids.

Potential Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has been talking about it a lot lately, so stories about those who still insist there are questions about whether President Obama was born in Hawaii have been back in the news.

The president's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, says it's time for such talk to stop.

As we learn more about just where the $38 billion in fiscal year 2011 federal budget cuts will come from, news stories are making it appear that the spending reductions will be less historic than both the White House and congressional leaders from both parties have been advertising.