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Less than a week later, their potent political alliance met a dramatic end Thursday when the men attacked each other with ...

This story takes you to Westel, Tennessee, home to the fiddle maker Jean Horner. For more than seventy years, Horner built ...

The U.S. had used combat artists to capture the action in World War I, and early in World War II, the military determined ...