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An unmanned Minotaur rocket carries NASA's newest robotic explorer, the LADEE spacecraft, into Earth orbit and then to the moon.

Friday's Moon Launch Visible To A Potential 85 Million

A rocket launched from NASA's launch pad on the Virginia coast shortly before midnight Friday was potentially visible to a large swath of the eastern U.S. The spacecraft is now on its way to the moon.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, seen in 2011, signed a bill barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight.

N.J. Gov. Christie To Sign Bill Banning Gay Conversion Therapy

The law would make New Jersey and California the only two states to ban the therapy. Christie said he believes people are born gay.

An elementary school student enjoys Field Day on a playground. Harold Begay, superintendent of the Tuba City Unified School District in Arizona, says the repairs that are needed to playground equipment, school buildings and buses would not be allowed anywhere else.

Navajo Schools Lose Funding Due To Sequestration Cuts

Indian reservations don't collect state property taxes, meaning most of their education budget comes directly from the federal government. With graduation rates already low, administrators worry about what larger class sizes and fewer school buses will do to the community.

The John B. Hayes Federal Building in Wilkesboro, N.C., is among several federal courthouses being closed in the South.

Closing Courthouse Brought Moonshiners To Justice

Moonshine used to be big business in the South, an illegal business that also kept the federal courthouses busy. Now one of those facilities, once on the front lines of the war on homemade booze, is shutting down.

A doctor examines chest X-rays at a tuberculosis clinic in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa in late 2007. The number of TB cases that don't respond to both first- and second-line medications is rising worldwide.

A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

A study examining the effectiveness of second line drugs for tuberculosis finds that extensively drug-resistant TB is spreading at an alarmingly high rate around the world. Its widespread prevalence in South Africa is forcing doctors to change the way they treat this emerging epidemic.

Griselda Blanco, the "queen of cocaine," in a 2004 photo posted by the Florida Department of Corrections.

'Queen Of Cocaine' Is Gunned Down In Colombia

Griselda Blanco was infamous for building the drug trafficking network between Medellin and the U.S. in the '70s and for ordering the deaths of dozens. She served almost 20 years in a U.S. prison. Monday, the 69-year-old "black widow' was assassinated.

Gov. Jerry Brown waits for the start of a news conference to announce plans to build a giant twin tunnel system to move water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmland and cities.

California's Jerry Brown: Water Tunnel Shows 'I Want To Get [Stuff] Done'

Brown expressed his frustration with what's become an intractable problem by dropping a four-letter expletive.

"Cloud" Computing's Substantial Footprint

EarthTalk® E - The Environmental MagazineDear EarthTalk: Why is Greenpeace upset with some leading tech companies for so-called “dirty cloud computing?”…

Motorized Vehicles in Wilderness Areas.

EarthTalk® E - The Environmental MagazineDear EarthTalk: I understand there is an effort underway to allow all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, motorbikes,…

Sacrilegious Lunch? The Cuban Sandwich Debate

The city council of Tampa, Fla., recently designated the "Historic Tampa Cuban Sandwich" and specifying its ingredients. From member station WUSF in Tampa, Bobbie O'Brien reports that claim has inspired ridicule from Miami's Cuban community.

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