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Boy achieves family dream with geography bee winMass. boy, 12, takes care of brother's 'unfinished business' to win National Geographic Bee
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FILE - In this March 17, 2005 file photo, former Major League baseball player Mark McGwire testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing on the use of steroids in professional baseball. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers’ questions over the years. McGwire, sometimes choking back tears, wouldn’t say whether he had used steroids while hitting a then-record 70 home runs in the 1998 season. McGwire later admitted use of steroids and human growth hormone. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Who else took the 5th? Baseball star, banker, moreOthers who took the 5th before Congress: Banker, baseball star, White House gate crashers
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FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass. speaks in Springfield, Mass. Determined to check the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces, a House panel is poised to approve a series of revisions to longstanding military law. They include stripping commanding officers of their unilateral authority to change or dismiss a court-martial conviction and requiring that service members found guilty of sexual offenses be dismissed or dishonorably discharged. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
House panel moves to curb military sexual assaultsHouse subcommittee approves legislation to stem growing epidemic of sexual assault in military
The Associated Press28 minutes ago
Judge Sherry Stephens urges the jury to continue deliberating after the jury delivered a message that they are deadlocked on a penalty for Jodi Arias on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.   Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)
Arias jury deadlocked but must keep deliberatingArias jurors say they're unable to agree on sentence; judge tells them to keep deliberating
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On May 22, 1913,

the American Cancer Society was founded in New York by a group of doctors and business leaders under its original name, the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

In 1813,

composer Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany.

In 1860,

the United States and Japan exchanged ratifications of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce during a ceremony in Washington.