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A moderate earthquake struck the northeastern U.S. state of Maine on Tuesday shortly after 7 p.m. (2300 GMT), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. First reported as a 4.5 magnitude quake centered near Lake Arrowhead, the USGS revised the quake’s magnitude to 4.6 and finally down to 4.0. It shifted the epicenter to close to Hollis Center, southeast of the original location, and revised the quake’s depth from a deep 17 miles to a relatively shallow 3 miles. Hollis Center is about 20 miles west of Portland, Maine’s most populous city, and about 100 miles north of Boston. …

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Whether you like it or not, the Obama and Romney campaigns have been using cookies and data miners to track what you’re up to on the web. You know when those phone jockeys from Obama for America or Romney for President catch you at home working on your fantasy football team? Chances are they probably know all about your fantasy football habits and your voting record and your friends and your porn habits. This is the hyperconnected 21st-century, after all. Even your political machine can be personalized.

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A French and an American scientist won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for finding ways to measure elusive quantum particles without destroying them, something researchers previously thought impossible.

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A newspaper said Monday that Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima.

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The camera captured a clamor of voices, a crush of bodies in a corridor, and then the blond hair and white T-shirt of a man lying on the floor.

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California investigators searched Monday for thieves who made off with an estimated $2 million in precious gems and gold from a mining museum in the Sierra Nevada foothills during a brazen daytime robbery.

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An image of three seemingly terrified women being “photobombed” by a man with a giant stingray went viral last week after it was posted online, catching the women in it by surprise. “Our phones just started going off,” Kendall Harlan, one of the women, told Yahoo News. “Friends were texting us [things] like, ‘Did you […]

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A Russian court is set to hear an appeal filed by three jailed members of an all-female rock band, who have been sentenced to two years for performing a “punk prayer” against President Putin at Moscow’s main cathedral.

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A 25-year-old man initially arrested Sunday on an assault charge after Lindsay Lohan claimed he grabbed her in her New York hotel room in an argument over cellphone images was freed hours later and his arrest voided when the charge could not be substantiated, law enforcement officials said.

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A key witness against convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has a book deal and will soon reveal his identity.

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