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Four California high school students used a complex mathematical function called a Maclaurin series to come up with the correct answer _ “two-thirds” _ Monday to win the Energy Department’s annual National Science Bowl.The team from Santa Monica High...
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A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding _ after police say he was...
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The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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AP, New York
Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...
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AP, Revere
City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and...
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A deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton has been sentenced in San Diego to more than three years in federal prison for possessing child...
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The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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AP, Los Angeles
A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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AP, Pittsburgh
The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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AP, Washington
Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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AP, Chicago
In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their...
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AP, Pomona
Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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AP, Chicago
Federal officials say a civilian project engineer has been charged with squeezing an Army Corps of Engineers contractor for a bribe in connection with a $2.5 million...
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Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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The Energy Department will spend $6 billion as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package to clean up nuclear weapons sites at Cold War-era facilities,...
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The Energy Department failed to prepare a proper analysis and made a $500 million math error when it decided to shelve an experimental coal-fired power plant slated for...
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The Energy Department failed to prepare a proper analysis and made a $500 million math error when it decided to shelve an experimental coal-fired power plant slated for...
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Energy prices rose Wednesday ahead of an Energy Department report expected to show that U.S. stockpiles of gasoline and crude continue to grow because of a sharp drop...
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Energy Secretary David Chu is limiting his direct involvement in overseeing three of the Energy Department’s premier research laboratories to avoid potential...
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U.S. dependence on foreign oil will drop dramatically over the next two decades as Americans are expected to confront rebounding oil prices, use more biofuels like...
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The Energy Department gave final approval Tuesday to a program to limit the most dangerous nuclear material to five sites, improving safety and security, and...
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The Energy Department reports U.S. greenhouse gases emissions increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006.
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The Energy Department will tell Congress in the coming weeks it should begin looking for a second permanent site to bury nuclear waste, or approve a large expansion of...
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The Energy Department moved ahead Thursday on further restricting the nation’s most dangerous nuclear material, part of a plan to scale back and modernize...
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Although global oil prices have plummeted, the cost of heating your home this winter will be a lot more expensive, especially for households that depend on fuel oil,...
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The Energy Department says the cost of heating your home this winter will be a lot more expensive, especially for the tens of millions of households that use fuel oil...
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Oil prices fluctuated in jittery trading Wednesday after the Energy Department reported larger-than-expected drops in the nation’s crude and gasoline...
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Even if no new reactors are built, getting rid of the country’s nuclear waste will cost $96.2 billion and require a major expansion of the planned Nevada waste...
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The Energy Department frowned on relaxing federal requirements to boost the use of ethanol in gasoline.Any reduction in the renewable fuel standard would sap investment...
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Oil futures fell sharply Wednesday after the Energy Department said the nation’s supplies of fuel and oil were larger than expected last week _ evidence that the...
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Oil prices slid Wednesday after the Energy Department said crude oil supplies fell less than expected last week while demand for gasoline dropped nearly 2...
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Oil prices fluctuated Wednesday after the Energy Department offered a mixed picture of the nation’s oil and fuel inventories.Retail gas prices slid slightly for a...
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The U.S. government is not doing enough to buy uranium and plutonium on the black market and keep it out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and rogue states, the...
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Oil prices soared Wednesday as the dollar fell and the Energy Department said oil inventories fell much more than expected last week. At the pump, gas prices rose to a...
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