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NASA had a lot to look back on as 2014 faded away into the New Year, including the success of its spacecraft nicknamed MAVEN that entered Mars orbit in September and the first ever 3D printing in space in November. NASA chronicles its Year in Review-in a blog post and in a video posted this week to Facebook-highlighting its work focusing on the red planet, including Orion's first flight in December and its use of the rocket-powered, saucer-shaped Low Density Supersonic Decelerator to test tech needed to land on the surface of Mars.

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10 Things to Know for Today

The disabled and homeless are forced to work on islands off the country's southwest coast, but no local officials who know about slavery will face punishment. The investigation turns to the ocean floor, with more sonar equipment and metal detectors deployed to scour the seabed for wreckage.

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Former New York governor Mario Cuomo dies

Mario Cuomo, the former New York governor who was once considered a prime candidate for the White House or the Supreme Court, has died. He was 82. The three-term Democratic governor died the same day as his oldest son, Andrew, was inaugurated for a second term as New York governor.

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Bush resigns from remaining board memberships

Jeb Bush has resigned all of his board memberships - both nonprofit and business - in a move that helps clear a path toward a 2016 presidential campaign. The former Florida governor stepped down from his remaining board memberships on Wednesday, the last day of the year, an aide said Wednesday night.

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Missing Rush Holt Already

It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

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Former governor to lead student loan group's 50th

Former Gov. Phil Hoff is going to serve as the honorary chairman of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation's 50th Anniversary Council. VSAC was created by the Legislature during Hoff's tenure as governor in 1965 to help Vermonters plan and pay for college.

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The Future of Collective Punishment

An acquaintance related a conversation he had with a friend from South Asia. "Americans are bad people," the South Asian said.

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New HMS Dido book tells how Bolton raised 1.2 million for war effort in one week

Former crew members of HMS Dido, pictured with the Mayor and Mayoress of Bolton, Cllr and Mrs Gerald Riley at a reunion dinner. In just one week in the 1930s, the people of Bolton raised a remarkable A 1.2 million to aid the coming war effort and "adopt" a new warship.

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Tributes pour in for former governor Mario Cuomo

Reaction to the death of former three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo, who died Thursday hours after his son, Andrew, was sworn in for his second term as governor. "An Italian Catholic kid from Queens, born to immigrant parents, Mario paired his faith in God and faith in America to live a life of public service - and we are all better for it.

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New York City Police in a Work Slowdown

Matt Taibbi : "My first response to this news was confusion. I get why the police are protesting - they're pissed at Mayor de Blasio, and more on that in a minute - but this sort of 'protest' pulls this story out of the standard left-right culture war script it had been following and into surreal territory."

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How the government will use Facebook to tell us of an unfolding disaster

OMG! There's been a nuclear explosion: How the government will use Facebook to tell us of an unfolding disaster They're used by millions of people around the world to stay in touch and post status and photo updates. But now social networking websites Facebook and Twitter could be used to notify members of the public about an unfolding nuclear crisis.

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Mario Cuomo Dies Three-term Ny gov, liberal Democratic stalwart was 82

Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, the liberal son of Italian immigrants and a gifted orator whose talents brought him national stature, died Thursday. He was 82. Cuomo died in New York of natural causes due to heart failure shortly after his eldest son, Andrew, was sworn in for a second term as New York governor, the office his father had previously held for eleven years.

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The Atkins, Paleo and Cabbage Soup diets are out in 2015

'We don't support that': Parents whose 'cruelty' towards transgender daughter, 17, was detailed in her suicide note REFUSE to honor teen's identity even after her death because it is 'wrong' Former NY governor Mario Cuomo dies aged 82 - six hours after his son was inaugurated for his second term as the 56th governor of New York Bizarre 4am 911 call reveals how police chief who 'accidentally shot his wife' told operator he shot her 'twice' when in fact he shot her once Revlon CEO 'believes he can smell black people when they walk into a room, hates 'dirty Americans' and 'thinks all Jews stick together' claims shocking lawsuit Will you find love in 2015? JONATHAN CAINER reveals if romance is written in the stars for you this year Mother of disabled girl, 3, slams United Airlines for trying to force her into her own seat - even though she can't physically sit up on her own 'Vampire' con ... (more)

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TN Gop sends $230K to help out-of-state candidates

TN GOP sends $230K to help out-of-state candidates TN GOP sends $230K to help out-of-state candidates Check out this story on WBIR.com: http://on.wbir.com/1Bcw2f2 The Tennessee Republican Party spent more money helping elect candidates in Colorado and North Carolina than the Tennessee Democratic Party spent to elect its own candidates in the days leading up to the Nov. 4 election. The state GOP sent $108,664 to the Colorado Republican Party on Oct. 17 and $22,000 to North Carolina's GOP party on Oct. 30. Those donations come after Tennessee's Republicans sent $100,000 to the Georgia GOP in July, according to federal election filings.

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OP-ED | Malloy's Relationship With Labor Foreshadows Problems For Dems

One of the most intriguing aspects of the beginning of a new year after an election cycle is the jockeying for position among various special interests in advance of the legislative session in Hartford. To wit, public-sector labor unions appear poised to collect some serious chits from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy after rallying the troops to ignore labor activist Jonathan Pelto and hold their noses to vote for a guy they really didn't care for.

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Kennewick Neighbors Annoyed with Drone Flying Over Their Backyards

If you want to fly your drone in your neighborhood, you technically can, but you might make some neighbors unhappy. Neighbors say for months they have dealt with a neighbor flying a drone over their backyards, and some are even claim he is recording, but that is still under investigation.

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Mario Cuomo, Democratic icon, dead at age 82

Multiple news organizations reported Thursday evening that former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, an icon of the Democratic Party, passed away at age 82. The news was confirmed in an email from Governor Andrew Cuomo's office, which confirmed that the elder Cuomo passed from heart failure. "My father is not with us today.

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Auburn joins Blackston River Valley National Heritage Corridor

At top is the Stoneville Mill on Main Street in 1835. The mill was a thriving business that was part of Blackstone Valley commerce.

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Welcome to New York's Sixth Special Election in Six Years

For political operatives, reporters and junkies there isn't a more appropriate way to kick off a new year and new election cycle than a special election in New York. Special elections in the Empire State have became a nearly-annual affair.

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10 Races to Watch in 2016: Wisconsin Senate

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., may face the Democrat he ousted in 2010, former Sen. Russ Feingold, next year - which would make the rematch one of 2016's marquee races. It's why the Badger State's Senate race completed Roll Call's list of the Top 10 Races to Watch in 2016.

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Who would benefit if Clinton decides not to run?

It's hard to imagine Hillary Rodham Clinton not running for president again - and easy to image the result of such a decision: political chaos. "It would be shocking," says Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who is advising Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Democrat who is considering a presidential campaign himself.

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2014 Lies of the Year

There are critical similarities between the furious controversy in the fall about the Ebola crisis in the U.S. - that never materialized - and that which has followed the heinous murder of two New York City police officers by an apparently mentally unstable Black man with a long criminal record. First, in both instances, conservatives ignored "inconvenient" facts in order to spin falsehoods and half-baked conspiracy theories and play the guilt-by-association card.

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Former Alaska senator to lead Nevada cannabis company

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Former U.S. Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, who represented Alaska in the 1970s, said on Wednesday he would head a Nevada company that develops and markets cannabis throat lozenges and other products in states that have taken steps to legalize weed.Gravel, 84, will run KUSH, a subsidiary of publicly traded Cannabis Sativa Inc., where Gravel previously served nine months on the board of directors, the company said in a statement." We need to decriminalize drugs and treat them as a health problem," Gravel, who lives in California, told Reuters.

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National Security Will Be Achieved Through Energy

When Arthur Schlesinger, John F. Kennedy's assistant secretary of cultural relations, first learned of the CIA's plan to invade Cuba, he told the young president: "At one [pen] stoke [he] would dissipate all the extraordinary goodwill which has been rising toward the new administration through the world. It would fix a malevolent image of the new administration in the minds of millions."

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Benign weather today turns raw tomorrow and warmer on Sunday; Cold next week

TODAY'S DAILY DIGIT A somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a scale of 0 to 10. Today: Slightly more sun than clouds. Highs: Mid-40s to around 50. Tonight: Some a.m. mix? Rain at times.

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Crash renews concerns over indonesian aviation

JAKARTA, Indonesia - When U.N. auditors visited Jakarta in May to rate the country's aviation safety, they came to a troubling conclusion: Indonesia was well below the global average in every category and scored just 61 percent in airworthiness. The audit reinforced the fact that Indonesia, which scored far worse than impoverished neighbors such as Laos and Myanmar, has a chronic problem with aviation safety.

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Who Would Benefit IfClinton Decides Not to Run?

ItA s hard to imagine Hillary Rodham Clinton not running for president again ? and easy to image the result of such a decision: political chaos. "It would be shocking," says Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who is advising Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Democrat who is considering a presidential campaign himself.

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Not taking crap from lefties

I have decided to give lefties a taste of their own meds. In the case of familiar blogs the rampant claims of racism to anyone who opposes Obama have become absurd.

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Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo Dies

Barack Obama has led tributes to the former governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, who has died at the age of 82. The governor's office said in a statement Mr Cuomo, who served three terms as New York's 52nd chief executive from 1983 to 1994, had died of "natural causes due to heart failure" at his Manhattan home with his family at his side. His death on Thursday came on the day his eldest son, Andrew Cuomo, delivered inaugural addresses in New York, after being sworn in for his own second term as governor.

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Mia Love says little regarding Steve Scali...

The first black Republican woman elected to Congress has declined to say much about a controversy over a House Republican leader speaking to a white supremacist group 12 years ago. Utah congresswoman-elect Mia Love says commenting on the revelation that surfaced Monday about House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is difficult because she hasn't spoken with him about it.

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