Apollo 11 Astronauts Call for Mars Dream Ahead of 40th Anniversary
Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins urged Congress and the public to honor Apollo 11 by pursuing a future Mars mission. Aldrin pressed Americans to dream big, while Collins stressed humility and the engineers behind the mission. The event at the National Air and Space Museum drew about 500 attendees with thousands more outside.
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Washington
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National Air and Space Museum
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Michael Collins
America
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Armstrong
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Smithsonian Institution
Palin signals Alaska tour not goodbye but thanks
In Unalakleet and Kotzebue Palin is greeted like a rock star as she tours Alaska after resigning as governor. She says the trip is not farewell, plans to remain in Alaska, and hints at a new platform on Twitter while avoiding questions about 2012.
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Alaska
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Sarah Palin
Anchorage
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Frank McCourt dies at 78 in New York
Author Frank McCourt, famed for Angela’s Ashes, died at 78 in a Manhattan hospice after battling cancer and meningitis. The Pulitzer Prize winner rose from teaching English in New York high schools to fame with his 1996 memoir and its many translations.
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New York
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Manhattan
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Scott Fitzgerald
New York City
Slain Woman and Family Killer Faces Six Counts
Jacob Shaffer 30 faces six homicide counts for killings in Tennessee and Alabama. Traci Shaffer 38, her son 16, and neighbor 16 were found dead in Fayetteville home. two Hall family members, father 57 and brother 34, were found nearby. Motive cited as domestic. Shaffer held without bond in Lincoln County Jail.
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Tennessee
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Fayetteville
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
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Chris Hall
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Huntsville
Ala
Lincoln County
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Shaffers
Wilson
Hall
Jacob
Helm
San Francisco Train Crash Under Scrutiny of Officials
Federal investigators question why a light rail operator switched from automatic to manual controls before a tunnel crash that injured 48 passengers. NTSB says auto pilot could have slowed the train to avoid a collision with a parked carless train at 23 mph.
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West Portal
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U.S
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