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World's smallest artificial heart saves baby's life
Thu,24 May 2012 07:15 AM PDT
World's smallest artificial heart saves baby's lifeAn Italian heart surgeon holds a tiny titanium pump, the world's smallest artificial heart, which was implanted in a baby, at the Bambino Gesu' Hospital in Rome May 24, 2012. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Plight of missing kids now in spotlight
Thu,24 May 2012 02:38 PM PDT

NYPD spokesman Paul Brown holds an original missing poster of Etan Patz during a news conference near a New York City apartment building, where police and FBI agents were searching a basement for clues in the boy's 1979 disappearance, in New YorkEverything you need to get up to speed on the big story of the day May 25 is National Missing Children's Day. Etan Patz, its poster child, remains missing. After 33 years, a man has stepped forward to confess to strangling Patz. Proof will be another matter, as the former grocery store worker has not [...]


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Booker via Twitter: 'Sorry I make u sick'
Thu,24 May 2012 05:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2012 file photo, Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker speaks in Newark. Booker, an Obama ally, is the latest politician in damage-control mode in a presidential race already noteworthy for the informal spokespeople who veer wildly off message. His criticism of Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has apparently had enough of saying he's sorry this week. The rising Democratic star has been under fire since a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"during which he said Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital were "nauseating," Having endured days of excoriating criticism, and having tried [...]


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'Disoriented' passenger subdued on flight in Miami
Fri,25 May 2012 12:38 PM PDT
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An American Airlines Boeing 757An apparently "disoriented" passenger had to be calmed down and subdued on an American Airlines jet Friday as it was taxiing after landing in Miami International Airport, an airline spokesman said.


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Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud
Fri,25 May 2012 04:56 AM PDT
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This image provided by NASA taken at 1:15 a.m. EDT Friday May 25, 2012 shows Hurricane Bud. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Bud has strengthened off the southwestern coast of Mexico. The Miami-based agency said early Friday the storm was packing sustained winds of 115 mph making it a Category 3 storm and was centered about 170 miles (274 kilometers) southwest of Manzanillo and moving north-northeast at 10 mph (17 kph). (AP Photo/NASA)Hurricane Bud weakened to a Category 2 storm as it headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.


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Egypt to pick Islamist or military man as president
Fri,25 May 2012 04:25 AM PDT
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Officials count ballots for the presidential election after the polls were closed in the Mediterranean city of AlexandriaThe Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate in Egypt's first free presidential vote had won through to a run-off next month against ex-air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.


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Days after deaths, another crowd attempts Everest
Fri,25 May 2012 01:41 AM PDT
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 6, 2003 file photo, Mount Everest, at 8,850-meter (29,035-foot), the world's tallest mountain situated in the Nepal-Tibet border as seen from an airplane. Days after four people died amid a "traffic jam" of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak will begin soon, and there's little they can do to control it. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi, File)A wave of climbers were headed for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday in what is expected to be another busy weekend on the top of the world.


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Apple CEO gives up $75 million in dividend income
Fri,25 May 2012 01:20 AM PDT
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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks on stage during an Apple event introducing the new iPad in San Francisco, California in this March 7, 2012 file photoApple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook will not be earning dividend income on the more than 1 million shares to which he is entitled, which will cost him about $75 million.


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AWOL soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
Fri,25 May 2012 12:10 AM PDT
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FILE - This June 14, 2011, file photo shows Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo in Nashville, Tenn. Abdo, a Muslim soldier who was AWOL from Fort Campbell, Ky., is accused of planning to bomb a Killeen restaurant filled with Fort Hood soldiers and shoot any survivors last summer. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, the most serious of the six charges on which he's being tried at his federal trial in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo, File)A federal jury convicted Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim soldier, on six charges in connection with his failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.


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Firefighters save some homes from New Mexico wildfire
Fri,25 May 2012 09:49 AM PDT
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Raw Video: Nevada Wildfire burns 7k acresTwo raging wildfires in southwest New Mexico merged on Thursday to become the biggest blaze among fires that have torched forest and brush in parts of five Southwestern states.


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