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Dragon ship back on Earth after space station trip

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 28th

By MARCIA DUNNAssociated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An unmanned Dragon freighter carrying a stash of precious medical samples from the International Space Station parachuted into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, completing the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA

High court weighs new look at voting rights law

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By JAY REEVES and MARK SHERMANAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights

An uneasy economy, and those living through it

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By CALVIN WOODWARD and MITCH WEISSAssociated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Here was Chas Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr. Gutter business was booming in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Now: "We mainly

AP PHOTOS: Images of the approaching superstorm

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By The Associated Press Big waves washed over roads in Virginia and flooded parts of coastal Maryland as Hurricane Sandy headed north. Across the Northeast, people boarded up windows and filled sandbags in preparation for the hybrid storm system. Forecasters warned that the megastorm could

Syria truce collapse shows limits of diplomacy

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By ZEINA KARAMAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions Sunday, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never

HI tsunami smaller than feared; ports reopened

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By OSKAR GARCIAAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) - Officials in Hawaii reopened the state's ports on Sunday and canceled a tsunami advisory as fears receded that there would be damaging waves from a powerful earthquake off the coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lifted its tsunami

Megastorm could wreak havoc across 800 miles of US

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By ALLEN G. BREED and WAYNE PARRYAssociated Press SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. (AP) - Tens of millions of people in the eastern third of the U.S. in the path of the unprecedented freak storm had hours Sunday to prepare for the first raindrops that were expected later in the day, to be followed over the

Warsaw museum to celebrate Jewish life in Poland

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By VANESSA GERAAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw's former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to those who fought and died in the 1943

East Coast storm wreaks havoc on presidential race

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By JOSH LEDERMAN and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated Press CELINA, Ohio (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama frantically sought to close the deal with voters with precious few days left in an incredibly close race as this year's October surprise - an

Megastorm could wreak havoc across 800 miles of US

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By ALLEN G. BREED and WAYNE PARRYAssociated Press SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. (AP) - Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the behemoth storm plodding up the East Coast will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain,