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Kansas City PD Requests Lull In Calls, Royals In Wild-Card Game

8:01am October 01, 2014

With the Royals and Oakland A's tied in the the 9th, the department tweeted: "We really need everyone to not commit crimes and drive safely." The Royals hadn't been in a postseason game since 1985.

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Details Emerge Of Security Breach During Obama's CDC Visit

10:48pm September 30, 2014

by Juana Summers

On Tuesday, The Washington Times reported that a security contractor with a gun and prior assault convictions was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a trip to Atlanta.

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Politics & Government

In N.H. Race, A Rematch Of A Rematch

10:46pm September 30, 2014

by Ailsa Chang

Voters in New Hampshire's 1st District have swung back and forth in recent congressional elections. This year, Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter meets former GOP Rep. Frank Guinta for the third time.

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Victoria Ruiz (left), a postdoctoral fellow in immunology, works with Brianna Delgado, a high school student that she mentors, at the Blaser Lab, inside NYU's Langone Medical Center in New York, NY.

Too Few University Jobs For America's Young Scientists

8:21pm September 30, 2014

by Richard Harris

So, you want to be a science professor? Good luck. Highly educated, relatively low-paid postdoctoral fellows may drive U.S. biomedical research, but they're training for jobs that don't exist.

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Mexican consulates, like this one in Houston, are helping some unauthorized immigrants from Mexico pay application fees for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Mexico Pays To Help Its Citizens Avoid Deportation From The U.S.

8:08pm September 30, 2014

by Hansi Lo Wang

Applying to the program for immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children provides a work permit and prevents deportation, but costs $465. Mexico is helping some of its citizens with that cost.

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Federal Judges Sends Wyo. Wolves Back To Endangered Species List

6:46pm September 30, 2014

by Nathan Rott

Just two years after the Obama administration removed federal protections for wolves in the state of Wyoming, a federal judge has reinstated them, saying that the state's plan for managing the species was inadequate and largely unenforceable.

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What We Don't Know About Heart Disease Can Kill Us

5:15pm September 30, 2014

by Nancy Shute

People in the United Kingdom failed big time when they took a poll on risk factors for heart disease. Think you're more up to speed? Try our quickie quiz and find out.

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National

Should You Do The Do-Over If There's A Chance For A Second Chance?

2:01pm September 30, 2014

by Tanya Ballard Brown

As world-class violinist Joshua Bell plans a second Washington, D.C., Metro performance, we reflect on the rare opportunity to try something again.

Tenn. Detention Facility Explores How To Control Rough Teens

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Bobby Allyn

A youth detention center in Nashville is making news because of riots and breakouts. Advocates point to Missouri as an exemplary model. There, the atmosphere can feel more like summer camp than jail.

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Secret Service Director To Face Tough Question At House Hearing

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Brian Naylor

Lawmakers will question Secret Service Director Julia Pierson on how a man was able to jump the White House fence, cross the lawn and get into the White House before being stopped by agents.

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