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NASA Reportedly Gets OK To Keep Space Station Going Until 2024

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

The White House has approved NASA's call for four more years for the International Space Station, ensuring that the orbiting science laboratory will keep going for another decade, according to documents obtained by The Orlando Sentinel.

The newspaper writes:

"The decision follows years of pressure by top NASA ...

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December Posts Strongest Job Gains Of 2013, Survey Shows

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

This post was updated at 11:20 a.m. ET.

Last year ended on a high note for U.S. employment, with December ticking off 238,000 new private-sector jobs, topping the previous month for the best showing of 2013, according to the latest data from the ADP National Employment Report.

The survey ...

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Ex-Defense Secretary Gates Takes Aim At Obama In New Book

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a book due out later this month, describes President Obama as "a man of personal integrity" who nonetheless was skeptical of his administration's "surge" strategy in Afghanistan and openly distrustful of the military leadership, The Washington Post and The New York Times ...

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U.N. Suspends Counting Deaths In Syria's Civil War

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

The United Nations says it can no longer verify the death toll in Syria's civil war and, as of Tuesday, will leave the figure at 100,000, where it stood in late July.

"It was always a very difficult figure," Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. Office ...

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Dennis Rodman Defends North Korean 'Basketball Diplomacy'

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

In a combative interview from North Korea, former NBA star Dennis Rodman defended his "basketball diplomacy" in the repressive country and seemed to imply that he believes American businessman Kenneth Bae, sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for allegedly trying to overthrow the Kim Jong Un regime, is guilty.

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Senate Votes To Move Ahead On Extending Unemployment Benefits

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

This post was updated at 12:00 p.m. ET.

A three-month extension of federal unemployment benefits for 1.3 million jobless Americans won a key procedural vote in the Senate on Tuesday.

The 60-37 vote indicates there's enough Republican support to move the Emergency Unemployment Compensation, which expired on Dec. 28, forward ...

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Funding Could Dry Up For Kentucky's Noah's Ark Theme Park

Monday, January 06, 2014

Plans for a Christian theme park in Northern Kentucky featuring a 510-foot-long replica of Noah's Ark are likely to sink unless the project raises millions of dollars from investors in the coming weeks.

The Courier-Journal reports that the project, undertaken by the Christian non-profit Answers in Genesis, has ...

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Panama Asks Spain To Help Resolve Canal Expansion Dispute

Monday, January 06, 2014

Panama's president on Monday expressed confidence that a multi-billion dollar Panama Canal expansion will get back on track after a European-led consortium threatened to halt construction unless it gets paid for massive cost overruns.

As we reported last week, Spanish builder Sacyr, the leader of a consortium known ...

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Foul Weather In Britain Linked To U.S. 'Polar Vortex'

Monday, January 06, 2014

The southwestern U.K. is getting slammed by huge waves whipped up by 70 mph winds accompanying a low-pressure system sweeping in from the Atlantic.

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Boeing Delivers Record Number Of Jetliners In 2013

Monday, January 06, 2014

Boeing delivered a record 648 commercial jetliners last year, including 65 of its newest 787s and also had a record backlog of 5,080 unfulfilled orders.

The 2013 deliveries were expected to keep Boeing in the No. 1 slot for the second year, nudging out rival Airbus, which is expecting ...

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Consortium Threatens To Pull Plug On Panama Canal Expansion

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Cost overruns are threatening to shut down a multi-billion dollar expansion of the Panama Canal aimed at allowing the world's largest ships to pass through the short-cut between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.

A European consortium funding the project says it won't continue the work until Panama coughs ...

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Arrest Made In Murder Of California Priest

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Police have a suspect in custody in connection with the murder of a popular priest in northern California whose body was found on New Year's Day with unmistakable signs of "blunt-force trauma," authorities say.

Gary Lee Bullock, 43, of Redway was arrested by Humboldt County deputies on Thursday, police said ...

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Newspapers: 'Whistle-Blower' Snowden Deserves Clemency

Thursday, January 02, 2014

These words from The New York Times about former NSA contractor Edward Snowden:

"Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a ...

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Chinese Balloonist Rescued At Sea By Japanese Coast Guard

Thursday, January 02, 2014

A Chinese balloonist has been rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard after coming down in the East China Sea short of his intended destination — a tiny island chain that's part of a territorial tug of war between Beijing and Tokyo.

Japan Times writes:

"Xu Shuaijun, a 35-year-old ...

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California High Court OKs Law License For Undocumented Immigrant

Thursday, January 02, 2014

California's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an undocumented immigrant from Mexico should receive a license to practice law in accordance with a new state law.

The ruling in favor of Sergio Garcia, 36, comes after California lawmakers passed a bill in October authorizing qualified applicants into the state bar, regardless ...

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Target Says Some Of Its Gift Cards 'Not Properly Activated'

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

It's not been a very good holiday season for Target.

First, it was the pre-Christmas announcement that 40 million credit and debit card accounts used for purchases at the retail chain had been hacked, even though the company later said the "strongly encrypted PIN data" that were breached

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Out Like A Bull: 2013 Was A Banner Year For Wall Street

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

U.S. stocks in 2013 posted their best showing since 1997, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 26.5 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index up 29.6 percent and the Nasdaq up 38 percent.

NPR's Jim Zarroli says Wall Street's stellar performance was set against the backdrop of ...

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Judge Upholds Key Provisions Of N.Y. Gun-Control Law

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A federal judge has largely upheld New York's tough gun control law passed in the weeks after the Sandy Hook school shooting.

Judge William Skretny in Buffalo rejected arguments from opponents that its ban on large-capacity magazines and the sale of semi-automatic rifles infringed on Second Amendment rights.

He ...

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Brain-Dead Girl Can Stay On Life Support, Judge Orders

Monday, December 30, 2013

A judge has extended life support for a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead after complications from a tonsillectomy operation earlier this month.

The order, issued by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo, grants the family's eleventh-hour appeal to keep Jahi McMath on a ventilator at least until ...

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Train Derailment In North Dakota Causes Explosion, Fire

Monday, December 30, 2013

A dozen oil tanker rail cars burst into flames after two trains collided in eastern North Dakota on Monday.

No one was hurt during the derailment or fire, but thick black smoke was rolling off the wreckage after five explosions rocked the town of Casselton, about 10 miles west of ...

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