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Top contenders to be the next pope

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 10th

By The Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) - Cardinals from around the world gather this week in a conclave to elect a new pope following the stunning resignation of Benedict XVI. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of

Japan's cleanup lags from tsunami, nuke accident

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 10th

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACHAssociated Press NARAHA, Japan (AP) - Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs - and perhaps most worrying - radioactive waste due

Puerto Rico slowly warms to more gay rights

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 2nd

By DANICA COTOAssociated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The advance of gay rights across the United States is spreading into Puerto Rico, making the island a relatively gay-friendly outpost in a Caribbean region where sodomy laws and harassment of gays are still common. The governing Popular

Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 27th

By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies

Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 27th

Arkansas governor vetoes 20-week abortion bill

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 26th

By ANDREW DeMILLOAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday vetoed a ban on most abortions in Arkansas at 20 weeks into a pregnancy, setting up an override fight with a Republican-controlled Legislature that has been pushing for more restrictions on the

Midwest remains locked in deep freeze

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 23rd

By TODD RICHMONDAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Upper Midwest remains locked in the deep freeze, with bitter temperatures stretching into a fourth day across several states. The cold snap arrived Saturday night as waves of Arctic air swept south from Canada, pushing temperatures to