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New technology can tell whether an invasive procedure is necessary

(CNN) -- Chest pain could mean you need a serious operation to get blood flowing back to your heart. But it's hard to know who needs such an intervention, especially without evidence of a heart attack.


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Growing up, my grandmother told me stories of Hurricane Betsy

(CNN) -- Outside my window, the wind is starting to die down, although it still comes through in gusts, sending branches and debris tumbling down the deserted street outside. The power's been out since 4 a.m. Life has skidded to a slow crawl, with no data available on my smartphone and no Internet to tell me when the storm might subside.


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Section blocked voter-ID laws, prohibited reduced early voting and barred redistricting in Texas

A single provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been playing a key role on the election front this year. Section 5 has blocked photo voter-ID laws, prohibited reduced early-voting periods in parts of Florida and just Tuesday barred new redistricting maps in Texas.


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Pentagon's agreement doesn't require author to submit his book for pre-publication

(CNN) -- A former Navy SEAL did not violate military secrecy agreements or break federal law by writing a book about the raid last year that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the author's lawyer said Friday.


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Some say a gender divide is erected at an early age through playtime

(CNN) -- Like many parents, Carrie Goldman was thrilled to learn that Britain's biggest department store recently reopened its toy department with a fresh look: dolls and trucks side by side.


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Officers look at public info and sometimes create fake online IDs to view suspects' private info

(CNN) -- We leave small clues about our lives all over the Internet like fingerprints.


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Romney's father, George, set the precedent for candidates releasing extensive tax returns

Last week, the website Gawker published more than 900 pages of documents from Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney founded, and headed from 1984 until 1999.


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Many worry Mitt Romney will revoke the program if elected

NEW YORK, N.Y.--Thousands of young undocumented immigrants formed long lines at help-centers and churches across the United States last Wednesday to start their process of gaining temporary legal status, under President Obama's new program to defer deportations for many brought to this country as children.


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This is the first year Log Cabin Republicans were invited to the Republican National Convention

TAMPA (CNN) -- A man hurrying to catch the light at a corner in muggy downtown Tampa carries a book with a rainbow of color on its cover.


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Phrase was the cornerstone of this year's Republican National Convention

(CNN) -- That July comment by President Barack Obama was the cornerstone of this year's Republican National Convention. Republicans have seized on the phrase -- a seemingly stray clause in a line Obama delivered at a campaign stop in Virginia -- as a kind of Freudian slip that reveals the president's hostility to free enterprise.


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