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Federal judge orders hearing on requested Pennsylvania recount

Calling Pennsylvania’s election system “a national disgrace,” Green Party-backed lawyers asked a federal judge on Monday to order a recount of the state’s Nov. 8 presidential election result, won by Republican Donald Trump.

Supreme Court sides with Samsung in Apple patent dispute

A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with smartphone maker Samsung in its high-profile patent dispute with Apple over design of the iPhone.

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Raising the Stars and Stripes in Pearl Harbor — PHOTOS

Veterans, family members and dignitaries are converging on the site of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that drew the United States into World War II in advance of Wednesday’s 75th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial.

Forgotten shipwreck: 500 migrants drown, no one investigates

The head of Europe’s police agency said it would “look again” at the largest migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean this year after an investigation by Reuters and BBC Newsnight exposed a gap in the response by law enforcement.

Texas deputy dies when car plummets into sinkhole

An off-duty sheriff’s deputy has died and two other people were hurt when two vehicles plunged into a water-filled sinkhole in San Antonio.

Design students work with NASA on Mars suit

When scientists are trying to figure out how to live in near-isolation in a dome to simulate a Mars mission, the last thing they’ll need is an ill-fitting space suit. So one of the nation’s top design schools has come to the rescue.