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“Make this a national conversation,” Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, urged participants in Tampa at the first in a series of five regional forums preparing for the White House Conference on Aging this summer.

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Hi there, blog readers! This is Gerardo Cardenas with the AARP Illinois Communications Team.

At 53, Elena Kagan is the youngest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The oldest is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned 80 on March 15. The average age of sitting justices is 67 years 4 months.

Murder. Bank robbery. Racketeering. Drug dealing. For more than 60 years, from 1956 to 2011, James "Whitey" Bulger was either committing violent crimes or living as a fugitive from justice.

Is there bias in the U.S. criminal justice system? Unpublished data from a recent Gallup poll point up marked differences in views divided not only by race but also by age.