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Manzarek talks how he came up with the famous piano riff from "Light My Fire."

There's an unusual bi-partisan effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release information about certain Superfund cleanup sites, pieces of land that have been deemed too toxic for development. The EPA says sharing some information about the sites could discourage companies from cleaning up their environmental messes.

Thailand's army has taken control of Bangkok in an apparent bloodless coup timed to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's visit to the United States. Military leaders revoked the constitution, but they have also promised a return to democracy.

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to China for the first formal summit between the two countries in five years. The trip comes at a time of high regional tension, with North Korea threatening to carry out a nuclear test.

An emblematic story of the conquest of the West is told in Hampton Sides' new history Blood and Thunder. He focuses on the 20-year battle for control of Navajo country, a tale of bloodshed and deceit.

Authorities in Riverside County, Calif., charge a 36-year-old man with five counts of murder and arson in connection with last week's deadly Esperanza wildfire outside Palm Springs. Raymond Lee Oyler, arrested earlier for an unrelated arson case last June, is now charged with the deaths of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters.

Trudy Pitts and Bill Carney have been together for half a century. They say they've been so close for so long that their relationship allows them to speak the private language of music.

A rash of organized almond thievery has baffled police and almond growers in California's Central Valley. Police are finally making inroads into cracking the agricultural crime ring suspected in the thefts.

When the Pope spoke of jihad, and when Danish cartoonists published caricatures of a violent prophet Muhammad, Karen Armstrong blamed "Islamophobia." The author talks about her second biography on the prophet, entitled Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time and warns against what she calls the "myth of Islam as a chronically violent religion."

It's the holiday season, so it's no surprise that employees at Lickety Split Chocolate are hard at work. But this is no ordinary candy company. The CEO is 15 years old, and the other employees are even younger. But like any good entrepreneurs, these kids -- all from the Navajo tribe -- know a good business idea when they see it.