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Earth-sized planet found just outside our solar system
WASHINGTON — European astronomers say that just outside our solar system they’ve found a planet that’s the closest you can get to Earth in location and size. It is the type of planet they’ve bee...
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Smaller iPad expected at upcoming Apple event
NEW YORK — Apple Inc. has sent out invites for an event next Tuesday, where it’s expected to announce the release of a smaller iPad. The invite, sent to reporters Tuesday, doesn’t hint at what w...
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Stop-and-frisk gains political spotlight
NEW YORK — After more than a decade of complaints, the New York Police Department’s practice of stopping and frisking people on the streets has suddenly moved to the forefront as a combustible poli...
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Hundreds to attend slain girl’s memorial
DENVER — Hundreds of friends, family and community members will gather Tuesday to remember a 10-year-old Colorado girl who was abducted on her way to school and killed. Even as the service neare...
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White House mulls how to strike over Libya attack
WASHINGTON — The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators...
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FDA: Pharmacy’s other drugs may be causing illness
NEW YORK — Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to contact patients who got any kin...
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Associated Press Capt. Joseph Kittinger Jr., aerospace laboratory test director, sits in the open balloon gondola after his first parachute test jump for Project Excelsior at Holloman Air Force Base on Nov. 16, 1959, in Alamogordo, N.M. Felix Baumgartner broke Kittinger's world record for the highest and fastest free fall Sunday.
2 skydivers, 52 years apart, same goal
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The advice from master to student over the past three years has been simple: Be prepared. Know what to do and how to do it. “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner heeded Joe Kitting...
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Associated Press Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever.
Skydiver breaks sound barrier in record jump
ROSWELL, N.M. — In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a ball...
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Confederate spy honored after death
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause is a folk hero to many in hi...
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Feds muff kid jewelry cadmium crackdown
LOS ANGELES — Federal regulators failed to pursue recalls after they found cadmium-tainted jewelry on store shelves, despite their vow to keep the toxic trinkets out of children’s hands, an Associa...
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