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The hunt for clues about Van Gogh’s last days leads to Maine

In April, Katherine Mathews, a thrift store enthusiast, happened upon a watercolor with the signature E.W. Brooke.

Experts are examining a watercolor found in an antiques shop that may be a rare work by Edmund Walpole Brooke, who painted with van Gogh during his final months.

This is what they said. >> translator: peace negotiations should be among afghans and for afghans. we should not wait for pakistan, iran, russia, or america to bring peace to afghanistan. if people from government die, they are afghans. if taliban dirks they are afghans. foreign countries are playing in afghanistan to weaken islam, he says. >> reporter: brooke, there have been some efforts by the taliban to do -- to join back channel diplomatic talks even with american officials. but this is the first time really we have been hearing from battlefield commanders. i think that will be seized upo...

A week of public tributes and emotional farewells to senator john mccain came to a close with a final private good-bye right will in annapolis, maryland, at the u.s. naval academy on sunday. senator mccain's family and close inner circle of friends were joined by his classmates and current mid shipmen for the moving ceremony. the former navy pilot honored with a missing man flyover by f-18 jets. senator mccain now rests among the brave men and women at the u.s. naval act me. he was buried next to his longtime friend admiral chuck larson. with me now, rainel reyes, a commander of the u.s. natio...