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WASHINGTON – Six truckloads of medical materials from the Strategic National Stockpile are headed to hurricane-stricken Louisiana and Mississippi, and 10 temporary hospitals should open at area military bases by Friday night. The government said emergency medical shelters are being established at Fort Polk, La., the Mississippi Air National Guard …

TOKYO – A Japanese space probe is heading back toward an asteroid for a second landing attempt after failing to touch down over the weekend, officials say. Communications between the Hayabusa probe and Japan’s space agency, JAXA, have returned to normal after the vessel inexplicably stopped short of the asteroid …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday ordered Internet company Lycos to reveal the identity of a client in a benchmark decision on privacy that was praised by copyright groups as a way to go after illegal swapping of music and movies online. It is the first …