This is AP News Minute. A 28-year-old candidate who has never held public office stunned the democratic party by beating one of its house leaders. Alexandia Ocasio Cortez defeated Congressman Joe Crowley of New York, once thought of as a possible fut

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Picture a suicide dive into the mysterious depth? Relax, Galileo's already done it for you. We separated the probe from the Galileo mother ship. We were flying in toward Jupiter, basically a ballistic bullet. The Galileo probe went in at an unbelieva

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This could be the most terrifying sight in the solar system: clear skies above a bottomless pit, an infernal drop into the depth of Jupiters endless sky. You may have raindrops evaporating into the hot interiors of Jupiter, but there is no ocean down

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Turkish ship Mavi Marmara taking part in the 'Freedom Flotilla' heading towards the Gaza Strip (file photo 28 May 2010) Israel has published its first internal investigation of the deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the Palestinian-ruled Gaza

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JPMorgan Trading Losses Prompts New Probe, Concerns About Wall Street Just days after JPMorgan Chase reported the loss, Jamie Dimon, the bank's embattled CEO, apologized to shareholders. This should have never happened. I can't justify it. Unfortunat

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U.S. lawmakers expressed outrage in a congressional hearing on Wednesday about tens of millions of dollars in bonuses paid out by the troubled insurance conglomerate, American International Group, or AIG. Testimony by AIG's chief executive Edward Li

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Arlington National Cemetery - just outside Washington - one of the nation's most hallowed sites. It's where the remains of more than 300,000 service members are buried, including many who died in military conflicts dating back to the American Civil W

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U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang is calling for the international community to combat the culture of impunity that has fueled more than two decades of war in Somalia. Kang's comments followed an official two-day tour of t

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We've been talking for months about Russian interference in the U.S. elections and ongoing Russian cyberattacks. Well, today the Trump administration hit back, imposing new sanctions that freeze the U.S.-based assets of 19 Russian

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This past week, one of the last remaining secrets from the Watergate scandal was finally revealed. It's a report that prosecutors sent to Congress 44 years ago. Experts say the document could offer a precedent for how the R

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Friday is Moon Day, which commemorates the first human landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969. To mark the occasion, let's take a look at China's lunar exploration program. The Chang'e program China's lunar exploration program started in 2004. It is na

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South Korean officials are revealing what details they have so far of last week's fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist by the North Korean military. The full picture of what actually happened remains incomplete, however - because the North refus

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China has held its first press conference on the Change-3 moon rover mission, which will be called Yutu. The State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense says the lunar rover, will be launched in early December. Its

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By David Gollust Washington 18 September 2007 The U.S. State Department is promising an open and transparent investigation of a Baghdad shooting incident Sunday involving an American security contractor that left 11 people dead. The Iraq interior min

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China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 has moved a step closer to the moon. The probe descended from a 100 kilometer-high lunar orbit to an elliptical orbit with its nearest point, just 15 kilometers from the moon's surface. China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 ente

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A State Council investigation team, joined by over 20 prominent experts, is undertaking a full investigation into the Yangtze River disaster. The 60-member team has interviewed the survivors, including the sunken cruise ship's captain and the chief e

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NHTSA Opens Probe into Chevrolet Volt Fire Federal safety officials are looking into battery-related fires in General Motors' new electric-powered Chevrolet Volt automobile. The fires occurred after the officials crash-tested the vehicle. One of the

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The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed establishing an independent commission to investigate Bush administration policies dealing with such controversial issues as detainees and wiretapping, as well as decisions that led to

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By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 02 January 2008 Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has asked Britain help to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In a televised speech to the nation Wednesday night, the president also said

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Kenyan parliament members are calling for an investigation into the ownership and destination of a shipment of Russian-made tanks and other weapons aboard a Ukrainian ship seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The call follows a recent report,

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