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AP - Former first lady Nancy Reagan, who has nurtured her husband's legacy, will share the limelight Thursday as Republican presidential candidates try to lay claim to the Reagan mantle.

Reuters - Family planning groups outside of the United States would be allowed to receive contraceptives from the U.S. government under a Democratic plan moving through the U.S. House of Representatives that could prompt a veto by President George W. Bush.

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Monday for all nations to cooperate with the Human Rights Council, which began its first session of 2007 after being created a year ago to replace a commission whose critics complained was highly politicized.

Ann Romney, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, wrote a $150 check to Planned Parenthood in 1994, a Romney spokesman told CNN Wednesday.