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Rover Curiosity touches down on Mars

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
NASA's rover Curiosity touched down deep in a Martian crater after a picture-perfect descent and landing, beginning what promises to be one of the most ambitious planetary missions in history.
Mars Crater Where Rover Landed Looks 'Earth-Like'
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Ad about woman's death causes campaign furor

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎13 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney's campaign fiercely protested a searing attack ad aired by allies of President Barack Obama on Wednesday, but drew expressions of dismay from conservatives when an aide to the former Massachusetts governor invoked the ...
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May-Treanor, Walsh win Olympic beach v'ball gold

MiamiHerald.com - ‎22 minutes ago‎
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer LONDON -- Misty May-Treanor danced on the sand and then off it, taking a victory lap around the court before leaving Horse Guards Parade with Kerri Walsh Jennings as three-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists.
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Obama and Romney battle for campaign edge in Iowa, Colorado

Reuters - ‎25 minutes ago‎
* White House rivals take message to battleground states * Reuters/Ipsos poll says Obama increased lead over Romney * Vast majority of campaign ads have negative slant By Sam Youngman and Jeff Mason DES MOINES/DENVER, Aug 8 (Reuters) - President Barack ...
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Wis. temple shooter turned gun on himself: FBI

CBS News - ‎35 minutes ago‎
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - The investigation of the deadly shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin took a surprising turn Wednesday.
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Egypt's president holds talks with Iran's vice president

Los Angeles Times - ‎50 minutes ago‎
CAIRO - Signaling a new era in Egypt's diplomacy, President Mohamed Morsi met withIran's vice president Wednesday in the highest-level official contact between the two strategic nations in decades.
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Doubts arise about replacing Annan as Syria war worsens

Reuters - ‎25 minutes ago‎
By Louis Charbonneau | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As Syria spirals deeper into a full-scale civil war, Western delegations at the United Nations are increasingly skeptical about the value of appointing a replacement for Kofi Annan as the UN-Arab League ...
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COMMENT : Afghanistan's shrinking army and the clouds of civil war —Musa Khan ...

Pakistan Daily Times - ‎50 minutes ago‎
The rising power of Taliban militias, defection of Afghan army soldiers and police to private criminal militia units, sectarian rivalries, 'warlordism', and massive corruption in state institutions have put in danger the future of the Afghan state.
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Ernesto Crosses Yucatan, Regains Some Power

ABC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Tropical Storm Ernesto spun across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, then headed into the Gulf of Mexico after forcing the evacuation of thousands of tourists and fishermen from beaches in Tulum and the Costa Maya.
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What Cornfields Show, Data Now Confirm: July Set Mark as US's Hottest Month

New York Times - ‎25 minutes ago‎
It may come as little surprise to the nation's corn farmers or resort operators, but the official statistics are in: July was the hottest month in the lower 48 states since the government began keeping temperature records in 1895.
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Police file shows RFK told detective wife said 'everything was her fault ...

Washington Post - ‎16 minutes ago‎
WHITE PLAINS, NY - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a detective that on the day before his wife hanged herself, she called him to say “everything was her fault.
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Patz Probe Returns to SoHo Basement

ABC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Investigators returned to the lower Manhattan basement today where first-grader Etan Patz was allegedly murdered in 1979, the latest attempt to find clues in a case that has gripped and haunted New York City for 33 years.
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Fire crews standing by after flare-up at refinery

STLtoday.com - ‎18 minutes ago‎
Richmond fire crews are back at the Chevron refinery plant after a flare-up was reported at the facility a little before noon Wednesday.
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News Corp books $2.9 billion charge in 4th quarter; earnings match estimates ...

Washington Post - ‎11 minutes ago‎
LOS ANGELES - News Corp. posted a $1.55 billion loss in the fourth quarter after booking a large write-down on its publishing assets as it prepares to spin the unit off into a separate company.
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Obama, Romney opposed to Boy Scouts ban on gays

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY President Obama and Mitt Romney may be on opposite sides when it comes to same-sex marriage, but they both disagree with the Boy Scouts of America's policy banning gay scouts and troop leaders.
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Spellbinding Tax Reform That Doesn't Even Work on Paper

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Bloomberg - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Last week, I wrote about the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's effort to run the numbers on Mitt Romney's base-broadening, rate-lowering tax reform plan.
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Possible VP picks' Wikipedia pages locked down amid editing spree

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Los Angeles Times - ‎37 minutes ago‎
With Republican Mitt Romney offering no hints about his vice presidential selection, political observers have been on the alert for the smallest of clues.
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Lenovo announces new ultrabook details and a Windows 8 tablet for ThinkPad's ...

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CNET - ‎30 minutes ago‎
by Dan Ackerman During an event at New York's Museum of Modern Art, PC maker Lenovo has announced new details about upcoming laptops, as well as a new ThinkPad-branded Windows 8 tablet.
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Apple beefs up security for resetting passwords after breach

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is beefing up security for resetting user passwords after a journalist wrote about a hack affecting his personal data, highlighting possible weaknesses in the system protecting more than 400 million user accounts.
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Google Goes After Siri, Merges Gmail with Web Search

Wired News - ‎26 minutes ago‎
By Marcus Wohlsen Google's head of engineering says the company's next generation of search is bringing the world a step closer to computers as smart as the ones on Star Trek.
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Randy Travis naked at scene of DWI arrest

Minneapolis Star Tribune - ‎19 minutes ago‎
Randy Travis was charged with driving while intoxicated and threatening law officers after the country singer crashed his car near Tioga, Texas, and was found naked and combative, officials said.
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Watch Joan Rivers' Costco Protest!

E! Online - ‎20 minutes ago‎
Joan Rivers may or may not still be handcuffed to that now infamous shopping cart, but there's no question the funnylady's made her message to Costco loud and clear.
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Hicks: Kristin Cavallari, of "The Hills, has baby boy

San Jose Mercury News - ‎21 minutes ago‎
Kristin Cavallari and fiance Jay Cutler welcomed a baby boy Wednesday morning, she announced on Twitter. "We are thrilled to welcome Camden Jack Cutler into the world," the 25-year-old former star of "The Hills" wrote.
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Allyson Felix wins gold medal

ESPN - ‎21 minutes ago‎
AP George Smith looks at Allyson Felix's gold, Usian Bolt advancing in the 200 and Ashton Eaton leading in the decathlon. LONDON -- No more heartbreak for Allyson Felix.
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Usain Bolt reaches 200-meter final

ESPN - ‎15 minutes ago‎
AP George Smith looks at Allyson Felix's gold, Usian Bolt advancing in the 200 and Ashton Eaton leading in the decathlon. LONDON -- Usain Bolt slowed coming around the bend, looked to his left and saw his lead shrinking.
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Flat-Faced Early Humans Confirmed—Lived Among Other Human Species

National Geographic - ‎1 hour ago‎
A composite image pairs a newfound jawbone from species 1470 with a 1470 cranium found in 1972. Illustration courtesy Fred Spoor. New fossils recast a flat-faced oddity as a star species in the first chapter of the human story—perhaps even as our ...
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Neil Armstrong, 1st man to walk on moon, has heart surgery; NASA wishes him ...

Washington Post - ‎14 minutes ago‎
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is recovering from heart surgery days after his 82nd birthday.
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How A Failed Alzheimer's Drug Illustrates The Drug Industry's Gambling Problem

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Forbes - ‎3 hours ago‎
On Monday, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Elan Pharmaceuticals announced that the Alzheimer's drug they were developing together had yielded such a bad result in a clinical trial that they were stopping all further work on it - dashing hopes for the 5 ...
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Man with EEE was apparently infected out of state

Boston Globe - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Kay Lazar and Helen Shen A man in his 60s from the Metrowest region of Middlesex County has been diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, Massachusetts public health officials announced Wednesday, but they said the unnamed resident apparently was ...
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Kids' cholesterol down; fewer trans fats cited

Atlanta Journal Constitution - ‎1 hour ago‎
By MIKE STOBBE AP ATLANTA - Finally some good news about cholesterol and kids: A big government study shows that in the past decade, the proportion of children who have high cholesterol has fallen.

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