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Smithsonian to reopen after Sandy
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The Smithsonian Institution's museums and National Zoo are reopening on the National Mall after shutting their doors for two days because of superstorm Sandy.
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Fire hits New Jersey shore
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A fire has broken out in a New Jersey shore town that was hit hard by Sandy.
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New York Stock Exchange to reopen Wednesday
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The New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. financial markets were closed Tuesday, but will reopen Wednesday.
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Superstorm Sandy's effects slam the East Coast
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As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark.
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Hurricane Sandy: Maryland, other states under state of emergency
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Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds, soaking rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet tall.
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HMS Bounty crew abandons ship in storm waters
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The Coast Guard used ships and airplanes to search the Atlantic on Tuesday for the captain of the HMS Bounty, which went down during Hurricane Sandy.
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Flights grounded due to Sandy
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Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast Tuesday and upended travel plans across the globe, stranding passengers from Hong Kong to Europe.
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Fire destroys 50 homes in NYC amid Sandy arrival
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A fire has destroyed at least 50 homes in a flooded neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Hurricane Sandy slows presidential campaigning
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In the midst of campaign season and just eight days away from the presidential election, President Obama and Mitt Romney have both pumped the breaks on their campaign travel, due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Dragon freighter returns from International Space Station
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An unmanned Dragon freighter carrying a stash of precious medical samples from the International Space Station parachuted into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, completing the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.
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CPR less likely for minorities, study shows
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People who collapse from cardiac arrest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from family members at home or bystanders on the street as those in better-off white neighborhoods, according to a study that found the reasons go beyond race.
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Colin Powell endorses President Barack Obama
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama in this year's election.
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Aspirin shows promise in treating colon cancer
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Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease.
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Unemployment aid filings falls by 23,000
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Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment aid fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 369,000, a level consistent with modest hiring.
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President Obama, Mitt Romney close gender gap, poll shows
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Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama's 16-point advantage among women, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. And the president, in turn, has largely eliminated Romney's edge among men.
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Kentucky hate-crime case: Cousins acquitted after attacking gay man
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The first U.S. prosecution under a new federal law against anti-gay violence ended with a Kentucky jury acquitting two cousins of hate-crime charges while finding them guilty of kidnapping in a 2011 attack on a gay man.
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Thanksgiving flight costs rising, Travelocity finds
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If you’re planning to travel for Thanksgiving, hopefully you’ve already booked your airline tickets--as airline ticket prices are rising.
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Face slapping the newest cosmetic procedure?
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People will go to great lengths to hold on to youth, but paying $350 to get your face slapped is a bit much.
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