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  • North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions
    WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — North Carolina's governor, hoping to resume executions in his state, on Wednesday signed the repeal of a law that has allowed death row inmates to seek a reduced sentence if they could prove racial bias affected their punishmentThe Racial Justice Act, the only law of its kind in the United States, had led to four inmates getting their sentences changed to life in pr...
        


  • Mars beyond reach without NASA budget boost
    By Miriam KramerSpace.comIf NASA continues to be funded at its current levels, a manned mission to Mars could be permanently beyond reach, space industry experts say.When asked how soon astronauts could potentially set foot on Marsunder NASA's current budget constraints, Thomas Young, the former executive vice president of Lockheed Martin, says the outlook is bleak."With the current budget, bear w...
        


  • Brazil officials reverse subway, bus fare hike
    Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they have reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited protests across the nation. However, many doubted the move would help abate the demonstrations that have moved well beyond the outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin America's biggest nation. "This will represent a big sacrifi...
        


  • Julian Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden gain asylum
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said members of his anti-secrecy website have been in contact with lawyers of alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and are helping him seek asylum in Iceland.Speaking to reporters during a conference call on the one-year anniversary of his own asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange said his group has a “common cause” with ...
        


  • See Alaska -- all of it -- in beautiful space image
    By Becky OskinSpace.comFrom steaming volcanoes to sparkling lakes, almost all of Alaska's marvelous landscapes simmered under hours and hours of sunlight Monday, as seen by a NASA satellite.A scorching Alaskan heat wave caused by a high-pressure system meant few cloudson Monday, so NASA's Terra satellite snapped a rare image of the entire state. The view is similar to spotting the entire United St...
        
 
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  • 'Sopranos' Star James Gandolfini Dead at 51
        


  • FBI Foils Plot to Build X-Ray Weapon
    A New York man who allegedly wanted to kill President Obama and apparently blamed him for the recent Boston bombings has been arrested for trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction -- an X-ray system that would emit deadly amounts of radiation and could be detonated remotely, according to the FBI.
        


  • New Colo. Wildfire Prompts Evacuations
    Residents ordered to evacuate because of new wildfire burning in foothills southwest of Denver
        


  • Urban Outfitters Pulls Pill Glasses
    Kentucky leaders: Urban Outfitters won't sell shot glasses, flasks that look like pill bottles
        
  • Celebs React to Death of 'Sopranos' Star
    Colleagues and friends of James Gandolfini are paying tribute to the actor in the wake of his sudden death Wednesday in Italy. Gandolfini was 51. David Chase, who created “The Sopranos,” the hit HBO series for which Gandolfini is best known, called Gandolfini “a genius.”...
        
 
 
 
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