| Virgin Galactic founder: 'We fell short' Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:59 PM PDT  Richard Branson vows to find out what caused the crash of his space tourism rocket.
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| 5 dead after fire sweeps Maine student housing building Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:34 PM PDT  Fire swept through a two-apartment building housing college students.
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| Tech-savvy grandma saves Kansas Democrats Posted: 31 Oct 2014 10:54 AM PDT  Joan Wagnon, 74, is close to reviving her party after a stunning GOP defeat in 2010.
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| Branson determined to find cause of Virgin spaceship crash, pilots identified Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:40 PM PDT  By Lucy Nicholson and Irene Klotz MOJAVE Calif./CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson on Saturday vowed to find out what caused his space tourism company's passenger spaceship to crash during a test flight, killing one pilot and injuring the other, but expressed a desire to press on with the dream of commercial space flight. Michael Alsbury, 39, has been identified as the pilot who died in the crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, and the surviving pilot is Peter Siebold, 43, the Kern County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. ...
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| Obama stumps in Michigan, where his popularity is still strong Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:46 PM PDT  By Roberta Rampton DETROIT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made his lone campaign appearance with a Democrat running for Senate on Saturday in Michigan, urging voters to remember how his administration helped rescue the auto industry when he first took office in 2009. Obama, whose unpopularity has left him on the sidelines leading up to Tuesday's midterm elections, spoke to a crowd of about 6,000 supporters of Democratic congressman Gary Peters, who is expected to win the seat held by retiring long-time Democratic Senator Carl Levin. ...
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| Former Marine freed from Mexico jail arrives home in Florida Posted: 01 Nov 2014 10:44 AM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine, newly freed after seven months in a Mexican jail on gun charges, arrived in his home state of Florida on Saturday to get treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. A Mexican court released Andrew Tahmooressi, 26, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, on Friday on psychological grounds. He was set free so he could seek treatment for the post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after his military service, the court said. Tahmooressi was jailed in Mexico after arriving at the border from California with three guns in his pick-up truck. ...
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| New York doctor with Ebola improves, nurse reunited with dog Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:07 PM PDT  By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York doctor with Ebola, whose case triggered a national debate over mandatory quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa, was upgraded to stable condition on Saturday after nine days of treatment. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, the only person in the United States currently being treated for Ebola, will remain in isolation, New York City's Bellevue Hospital said in a statement. He has improved to "stable" from "serious but stable. ...
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| Gas under $3 for 1st time in 4 years Posted: 01 Nov 2014 09:38 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The sight is so surprising that Americans are sharing photos of it, along with all those cute Halloween costumes, sweeping vistas and special meals: The gas station sign, with a price of $2-something a gallon.
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| Ebola-free Texas nurse, pet dog reunited after long quarantine Posted: 01 Nov 2014 09:08 AM PDT  The Dallas nurse treated for Ebola had an emotional reunion on Saturday with her "best friend", a King Charles Spaniel, after the pet spent the last three weeks in quarantine being monitored for the deadly virus. The dog named Bentley showered Nina Pham with licks at a handover ceremony near the Dallas shelter where he had been kept in isolation and cared for by kennel workers in protective suits. Pham, 26, became the first person in the United States to be infected with Ebola after treating an infected man. ...
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| Funeral held for soldier killed in Quebec car attack Posted: 01 Nov 2014 11:38 AM PDT  Mourners including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid respects in Quebec on Saturday at the second of two funerals for soldiers killed in attacks police said were carried out independently by radical recent converts to Islam. Patrice Vincent, a 53-year-old warrant officer, died on Oct. 20 near Montreal when a man ran over him and a fellow soldier with a car. The driver was later shot and killed by police. Vincent's funeral on Saturday in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, just across the St. ...
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| Report says 60,000 veterans get triple benefits Posted: 01 Nov 2014 07:46 AM PDT  Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report.
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| Nigerian extremist says kidnapped girls married Posted: 01 Nov 2014 03:32 PM PDT  Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists claimed in a new video message.
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| 'We just had a hunch': How U.S. marshals nabbed Eric Frein Posted: 01 Nov 2014 05:41 AM PDT  MOUNTAINHOME, Pa. (AP) — Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, spied a figure moving from the woods toward an abandoned airplane hangar in the Pocono Mountains. Looking at his face, his black hat and fleece, and his height and weight, Malkowski was certain he had his man.
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| Ebola quarantines a 'disincentive' for health workers Posted: 31 Oct 2014 02:10 PM PDT  Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Yahoo News Friday that "blanket restrictions" on health care workers returning from West Africa could worsen the Ebola epidemic in the region.
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| New question in Texas: Can Wendy Davis survive defeat? Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:47 AM PDT  KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — It's a sunny afternoon just before the election and Wendy Davis isn't addressing an arena packed with adoring supporters, speaking on national television or working a hotel ballroom of top donors.
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| Driver sought in crash that killed 3 on Halloween Posted: 01 Nov 2014 02:59 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities on Saturday tracked the owner of an SUV suspected of being used in a Halloween night hit-and-run that killed three teenage girls to a Southern California home, only to find someone else living there.
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| 3 girls trick-or-treating killed in hit-and-run Posted: 01 Nov 2014 12:20 AM PDT The girls were hit at an intersection in Santa Ana, Calif., authorities said. |
| After U.S. rocket explodes, Russians deliver food to Int'l Space Station Posted: 29 Oct 2014 07:23 AM PDT  An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff in Virginia.
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