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Astronomers have discovered a fast-spinning, super-sized pulsar in a stretched-out orbit around an apparent Sun-like star. This combination (as well as that many hyphenated words in one sentence) has never seen before, and astronomers are puzzled about...
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Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...
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Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.
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Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.
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AP, Cleveland
The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.
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A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat...
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A New York financier has been sentenced in San Diego to more than eight years in federal prison for laundering bribes for former Congressman Randy “Duke”...
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Police found at least three bodies inside a home Friday night, and authorities were treating the case as possible homicides, an official with the prosecutor’s...
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The investigation into the bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to the arrest of a woman accused of using false identification in an attempt to obtain...
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A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.
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An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more.
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When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch were pregnant or had...
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Several bodies have been found in a northern New Jersey home under circumstances that were not immediately clear to authorities.
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AP, Sioux Falls
Former Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and an early backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined a noisy rally for Barack Obama on Friday...
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Michigan and Florida alone can’t save Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states’ banished...
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AP, Burgaw
Going potty without a partner can lead to punishment for students at a Burgaw elementary school, but parents want the policy flushed.
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Authorities said an 8-year-old Pontiac boy took a stolen car on a joy ride and caused a three-vehicle crash. Pontiac police said the boy sneaked out of his house...
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A Brown University student says she’s been suspended for hitting a New York Times columnist with a pie during an Earth Day speech.
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Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment...
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Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state’s new law that...
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Soon after taking office, the next president will get some advice about how to prevent a nuclear attack on the U.S., researched and written by top experts on weapons of...
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The study by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University found some coral reef gobie fish deliberately dieted...
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Three U.S. government scientists are proposing to improve climate change predictions by creating a kind of super-supercomputer.
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Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic “nanomachines” that may someday...
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Men and women with short arms and legs are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s in later life, claim scientists.
They believe every extra inch on a limb can help...
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Bacteria that cause the bubonic plague may be more virulent than their close relatives because of a single genetic mutation, according to research published in the May...
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Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents’ homes to try to figure out what’s happening...
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Scientists are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage to residents’ homes trying to figure out what’s happening beneath the earth’s surface...
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Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a major advance...
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MENSTRUAL blood can be used to repair heart damage, Japanese researchers said today. Scientists obtained menstrual blood from nine women and cultivated it for about a...
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It looks like chickens deserve more respect. Scientists are fleshing out the proof that today’s broiler-fryer is descended from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. And,...
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A survey of scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency shows that hundreds of scientists are complaining about political interference and pressure from superiors...
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Medieval physicians believed that they could diagnose disease by holding up a flask of the patient’s urine to the light and squinting at it. According to scientists...
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Researchers have taken another step toward turning animal waste into biogas on a large scale.Farmers have long called the odor of farm waste “the smell of...
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University of Iowa neuroscientists studying spatial learning and the effects of stress on memory announced Tuesday that a little son-of-a-bitch mouse ruined an...
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The sudden and dramatic disappearance of a large lake which had formed on the surface of a melting ice sheet in Greenland has been documented for the first time by...
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Scientists say they know far too little about Midwestern seismic zones like the one that rumbled to life under southern Illinois Friday morning, but some of what they...
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Scientists have pinpointed the cradle-to-grave path that flu takes as it sweeps the globe every year _ starting with the birth of new strains in Asia and ending when...
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A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on...
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A tiny operating table has been devised by scientists to carry out nerve surgery on the best understood worm on the planet.
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Washington:
Paul Bunje a Californian who earned his doctorate studying snail evolution is photographed, Friday, May 9, 2008, in Washington. On Saturday he heads back to school to learn a trickier task: How to get elected to public office.
