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In a film shown tonight on the National Geographic Channel, it was shown that Jackie O. Kennedy wore high heels, possibly stiletto heels, when she visited the casket holding President John F Kennedy when viewed in the rotunda of the Capitol. Editors of Vogue Magazine were shocked at this display of insincerity.

A woman in Bristol, Conn., says she ordered $30 worth of pizza only to find her bank account drained of $2,600. "The guy at the register was using the credit card," Katie Boucher said. "He was pushing all kinds of buttons, and my husband knew something fishy was going on. The receipt printed out for $2,600 for our $30.50 pizza." Actually, it was a debit card linked to her checking account, WFSB-TV, Hartford, reported. She went home, checked her account and saw not only was it empty, it had accrued $230 in overdraft fees, WFSB-TV said Friday. Boucher called her...

A watchdog group is questioning whether Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer could have been more transparent over a year ago in voluntarily disclosing the extent of her past mortgages with the company Countrywide. But Boxer aides strongly argue that the watchdog group’s complaints are without merit and suggest the questions are suspiciously timed, considering how the California senator is locked in a tough re-election fight. Boxer, as chairwoman of the Senate Ethics Committee, led a yearlong investigation beginning in 2008 into whether two Democratic senators acted improperly by being part of a VIP Countrywide program that gave influential clients favorable treatment....