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Solar-powered plane makes history
Call it a historic technological achievement. Call it a victory lap across America. Call it a shameless promotion for a controversial energy agenda. Its owners simply call it Solar Impulse.
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Helping kids, one bike at a time
The Oasis Bike Workshop provides inner-city youth with the tools to fix and build bikes from the ground up.
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Working 76 years in the same job
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Season's first named storm -- Alvin -- strengthens in Pacific
The hurricane season opened Wednesday with a flourish -- and more specifically, with the debut of its first named storm, Tropical Storm Alvin.
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Our 'hookup culture'
Romance may be getting short shrift among college students these days, replaced instead with quick "hookups" devoid of any real emotion, a new book argues.
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Don't lower DUI threshold
LZ Granderson says instead of reducing the blood alcohol content threshold, how about enforcing existing laws better?
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My mom needs you: Nalini's story
My mom, Stanford professor Nalini Ambady, needs a bone marrow transplant as soon as possible. But donors of South Asian descent are in short supply.
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Success! Human stem cells cloned
It's been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells.
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Friendly fire led to officer's shooting in Boston
Police sources have shed new light on exactly what happened when police confronted the two Boston bombing suspects, triggering a gun battle unlike anything recently seen on the streets of of an American city.
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White House releases Benghazi e-mails
The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama and his aides played politics with national security following the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
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Sacramento rejoices as NBA board rejects Kings move to Seattle
The Sacramento Kings won't be headed north to Seattle after all -- despite its owners reaching a deal to sell the team to a Washington state group -- after NBA executives voted Wednesday to reject such a move.
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GOP using Benghazi to smear
Donna Brazile says lack of transparency and due process at GOP-led hearings shows their true intent: To damage Clinton's presidential prospects, and Obama's credibility
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Alaska volcano spews ash 20,000 feet
An Alaska volcano exhibiting "elevated seismic activity" has spewed ash clouds skyward -- as high as 20,000 feet above sea level -- an observatory reported Wednesday.
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Senior citizens face charges
Residents of a New Jersey senior citizen building have been accused of prostitution and drug-related crimes.
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IRS scandal: 'Who's going to jail?'
House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status broke the law, and he wondered aloud "who's going to go to jail."
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Bring diversity to science
Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Freeman Hrabowski helped build a college with a national reputation for training scientists of all backgrounds
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Obama won't let media do their job
"Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. ... My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use." -- President Barack Obama, memo to heads of executive departments and agencies, 2009
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Brothers unite after losing legs
Paul and J.P. Norden each lost a leg in the Boston attack but now they're recovering and say they'll get through this.
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Sergeant trained to protect victims faces sexual assault allegations
An Army sergeant first class assigned to a sexual assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for sexual assault, pandering, abusive sexual contact and maltreatment of subordinates.
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