JURORS DEADLOCKED ON WED IN THE PENALTY PHASE OF THE JODI ARIAS MURDER **

THEY'RE DECIDING WHETHER TO SENTENCE ARIAS TO LIFE IN PRISON OR EXECUTION **

JUDGE ASKED THE JURORS TO REACH A UNANIMOUS VERDICT AND WILL RESUME **

HOUSE APPROVES A MEASURE TO EXPEDITE CONSTRUCTION OF THE KEYSTONE XL **

MEASURE PASSED WED EVENING WITH A 241-175 VOTE **

BILL WOULD TAKE AWAY AUTHORITY FOR APPROVING THE PIPELINE FROM THE OBAMA **

WA STATE MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN CONNECTION WITH A PAIR OF LETTERS **

37-YR-OLD MATTHEW BUQUET WAS ARRESTED ON WED AND CHARGED WITH MAILING A **

LETTERS TAINTED WITH THE POISON WERE INTERCEPTED BY THE POSTAL SERVICE... **

FL MAN KILLED BY FBI AGENT REPORTEDLY HAD LINK TO BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT **

IBRAGIM TODASHEV, A 27-YR-OLD CHECHEN IMMIGRANT, WAS FATALLY SHOT AT HIS **

TODASHEV REPORTEDLY TURNED VIOLENT WHILE BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS TIES TO **

THE TWO MEN REPORTEDLY KNEW EACH OTHER THROUGH MIXED MARITAL ARTS FIGHTING **

OFFICIALS SAY TODASHEV IMPLICATED HIMSELF IN THE 2011 TRIPLE-MURDER THAT **

DEATH TOLL FROM OKLAHOMA TORNADO STANDS AT 24 WITH ALL VICTIMS POSITIVELY **

10 CHILDREN WERE KILLED, INCLUDING TWO INFANTS **

LOCAL LDRS SAY AS MANY AS 13,000 HOMES WERE RIPPED APART **

THE COST OF THE OVERALL LOSSES MAY TOP $2 BIL DOLLARS **

PRES OBAMA PLANS TO VIEW THE DESTRUCTION FIRSTHAND ON SUNDAY **

ONE CHILD DEAD, ANOTHER MISSING AFTER MN LANDSLIDE **

A GROUP OF ST PAUL FOURTH-GRADERS WAS CAUGHT IN WEDNESDAY'S GRAVEL-SLIDE AT **


 

What is Curiosity going to do?

“Over the next two years, Curiosity will drive over to a mountain rising from the crater floor, poke into rocks and scoop up rust-tinted soil to see if the region ever had the right environment for microscopic organisms to thrive. It’s the latest chapter in the long-running quest to find out whether primitive life arose early in the planet’s history.

The voyage to Mars took more than eight months and spanned 352 million miles. The trickiest part of the journey? The landing. Because Curiosity weighs nearly a ton, engineers drummed up a new and more controlled way to set the rover down. The last Mars rovers, twins Spirit and Opportunity, were cocooned in air bags and bounced to a stop in 2004…”



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/06/nasa-rover-curiosity-lands-on-mars-after-plummet/#ixzz22lVyMbo2









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