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  • President Barack Obama has signed a measure into law reopening the federal government and averting a potential default.
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  • Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team owner and business man, gives a victory sign outside the federal courthouse after a verdict in his inside trading trial in Dallas, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Jurors said that billionaire Mark Cuban did not commit insider-trading when he sold his shares in an Internet company in 2004 after learning of a development that would dilute the value of his investment. The jury in federal court found that the SEC failed to prove several key elements of its case, including that Cuban traded on nonpublic information. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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  • Mark Cuban won a years-long fight with the federal government Wednesday as jurors decided that the billionaire basketball team owner did not commit insider-trading when he sold his stake in an Internet company in 2004.
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  • House worker yells during vote, escorted away
  • A woman described by lawmakers and aides as a long-time House stenographer has been removed from the chamber during a vote after she began shouting.
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  • The 285-144 roll call Wednesday night by which the House passed and sent to President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a threatened federal default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown.
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  • President Barack Obama walks out to make a statement to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The Senate voted to avoid a financial default and reopen the government after a 16-day partial shutdown and the measure now heads to the House, which is expected to back the bill before days end. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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  • Senate leaders reach deal on shutdown, debt limit
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  • Ten people were found clinging to the hull of a small boat that capsized early Wednesday in the waters off South Florida.
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  • A New Hampshire gas station clerk who thwarted an attempted robbery by pulling out a handgun says he was fired hours later for violating a company policy prohibiting staff from carrying firearms.
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  • Passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines jet en route to Atlanta say they heard an explosion and saw flames before the plane safely returned to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
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  • A baggage handler has been arrested following a police investigation into two dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport.
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  • It was a cold-hearted online post that a Florida sheriff said hastened the arrest of two girls, aged 12 and 14, in the bullying-suicide case of 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick.
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  • The former Army captain who received the Medal of Honor on Tuesday has asked to return to active duty in the Army, a rare move by an officer who has lived to wear the military's highest award.
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  • Fitness guru Maria Kang says she is just trying to get moms back into pre-baby shape. What do you think?
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  • This photo released courtesy of the Catalina Island Marine Institute taken on Sunday Oct. 13, 2013 shows the crew of sailing school vessel Tole Mour and Catalina Island Marine Institute instructors holding an 18-foot-long oarfish that was found in the waters of Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island, Calif. A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted the silvery carcass of the 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish. (AP Photo/Catalina Island Marine Institute )
  • It happened after a marine science instructor snorkeling off the coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel.
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  • A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel.
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  • Time growing desperately short, House Republican efforts to pass legislation collapsed Tuesday night.
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  • Police: Dry ice blasts at LA airport not terrorism
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  • Ex-San Diego Mayor pleads guilty to 3 crimes
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  • Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony and two misdemeanors for unwanted physical contact with three women at public events.
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  • Declaring that Iran no longer wants to "walk in the dark" of international isolation, Iranian negotiators put forward what they called a potential breakthrough plan Tuesday at the long-stalled talks on easing fears that Tehran wants atomic arms.
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  • A Libyan charged in the deadly 1998 al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa pleaded not guilty Tuesday to terrorism charges.
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  • About 90 mourners have paid their respects in Brooklyn to a young woman killed by police in Washington after she tried to ram her vehicle through a White House barrier.
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  • An autopsy is expected on the remains of a Detroit man who police say was partly devoured by an animal in his home.
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  • A Massachusetts high school senior has been suspended for what she says was an effort to help a drunken friend.
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