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Senator Russ Feingold’s unexpectedly tight race suggests that Republicans have a better opportunity to win back the Senate than they had imagined.

Carl P. Paladino is connecting with voters’ anger and worrying Rick A. Lazio’s supporters.

Thirty-three miners deep underground will play a critical role in their rescue, making their organization and leadership essential, officials said.

In his second address from the Oval Office, President Obama reminded America that, in giving Iraqis responsibility for their own security, he was fulfilling a campaign promise.

Many school districts have adopted a system called value-added modeling to evaluate teachers, provoking battles from Washington to Los Angeles.

The new battleground for stations is the morning, with news broadcasts going on air at 4:30 a.m. or earlier.

A sudden intervention to shore up the deeply troubled Kabul Bank prompted fears about the integrity of the Afghan financial system.

Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran have bedeviled others.

Joe Miller, a challenger backed by Tea Party activists and Sarah Palin, won the Republican primary.

adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft unveiled a new wireless Xbox 360 controller, which features a revamped D-pad that transforms from a plus to a disc. The new D-pad was developed to address complaints from users. Other new features include: A, B, X, and Y buttons that are gray instead of the standard red, green, yellow, and blue; and a matte silver color. The controller includes 2.4-GHz wireless technology with a 30-foot range."

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Teenagers in western New York sideswiped a worshiper with a vehicle and fired a gun, the authorities said.

Even as the broader economy falters, the agriculture sector is strong, bolstered in part by an export surge.

Hurricane Earl churned through the Caribbean Tuesday evening on a path toward the United States, prompting people along the Atlantic coast to brace for the storm’s expected impact later this week.

After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

Lucas123 writes "Researchers at Rice University said today they have been able to create a new non-volatile memory using nanocrystal wires as small as 5 nanometers wide that can make chips five times more dense than the 27 nanometer NAND flash memory being manufactured today. And, the memory is cheap because it uses silicon and not more expensive graphite as been used in previous iterations of the nanowire technology. The nanowires also allow stacking of layers to create 3-D memory, even more dense. 'The fact that they can do this in 3D makes makes it highly scalable. We've got memory that's made out of dirt-cheap material and it works,' a university spokesman said."

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Tears rolled from Fernanda Romero's eyes as the Mexican soap opera actress told jurors that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.

President Obama said America will continue supporting Iraq's government while also looking to refocus its energies on the U.S. economy and the war in Afghanistan.

Hurricane Earl prompted a hurricane watch for part of North Carolina's coast, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm could approach the state late this week.

itwbennett writes "Is open source's growth in emerging markets what is driving Microsoft to say 'we love open source' with an attempt at a straight face? 'The emerging markets (like the BRIC nations) are a huge potential market for Microsoft,' says Brian Proffitt. 'And I believe Redmond is wisely not taking the FUD route on open source software in those markets. Why? Because open source already has some strong roots in the BRIC nations (heck, in Brazil, open source is the whole darn tree), and any attack on open source would be seen as a foreign company attacking local software projects. If Microsoft attacked open source publicly in this environment, a lot of potential customers and developers in those countries could react in a protectionist manner and start giving Microsoft the stink-eye.'"

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FleaPlus writes "NASA is spending a total of $475,000, split between Masten Space Systems and John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, for a series of seven test flights of the companies' reusable suborbital rockets over the next several months, going to altitudes as high as 25 miles. NASA's goal is to foster a more cost-effective and flexible way to conduct microgravity and upper-atmosphere research. Jeff Bezos's suborbital spaceflight company Blue Origin has also been making steady progress this year on their $3.7M contract to test pusher-escape system and composite pressure vessel technologies, which NASA is interested in for orbital spaceflight."

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