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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's countdown is going smoothly and even the weather is looking exceptionally good for Monday's space shuttle launch.
LOS ANGELES (USA Today) - Lunar craters may trap "significant" ice deposits, announced NASA scientists on Friday, reporting results from a daring dual-impact mission into the moon's south pole.
NEW YORK (USA Today) - You have good reason to be skeptical when someone says millions of ordinary television viewers are about to start surfing the Internet on the living room's electronic hearth.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Remnants of Tropical Storm Ida are pounding the East Coast, flooding coastal areas in New Jersey after slamming the Carolinas and Virginia.
(WLTX) - Earth almost had an unexpected visitor last Friday night.
Many big companies and states are increasingly steering their travel business to hotels that meet "green" environmental standards.
DETROIT (USA Today) - After about a decade of engineering, Ford is ready to roll out a technology that will improve safety for rear-seat passengers: inflatable seat belts.
ATLANTA (AP) -- AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials.
(USA Today) - Darth Vader's Death Star? Ming the Merciless and his war rockets? The awesome power of Chuck Norris?
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking website $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
Jonathan Young is a real estate broker and now president of a company called Textecution.
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Verizon Wireless' answer to the iPhone - the Droid - will go on sale next week for about $200. Verizon revealed details Wednesday after intensely advertising the device in recent weeks. Verizon has been pointing out the features Apple's phone lacks, such as a physical keyboard and the ability to run several applications at once.
Cape Canaveral, FL (AP) -- After a one-day weather delay, NASA has been able to send its newest rocket up for a brief test flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA is counting down for the second day in a row in hopes of launching its new, experimental rocket.
The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts.
PARIS (AP) -- The Church of Scientology is denouncing a fraud verdict against it in France, calling it "an Inquisition of modern times."
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's newest rocket is on the verge of blasting off on a test flight.
