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NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy is winding down and inching its way inland, leaving at least 17 people in seven states dead and more than 7 million power outages in its wake.

New York was one of the hardest hit areas when an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater — 3 feet above the previous record — caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of the city's subway system

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in New York and Long Island.

The declaration makes federal funding available to people in the area. It bore the brunt of the sea surge from a superstorm that hit the East Coast on Monday

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An autopsy is scheduled for today for Rodney King, who's beating in Los Angeles in 1991 led to the nation's worst race riots.

King was found early Sunday at the bottom of the swimming pool at his home in Rialto, Calif

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A new study shows that when men with prostate cancer were diagnosed after developing symptoms rather than after screening tests, they had a higher risk of dying from heart problems or other cancers rather than the prostate cancer itself.

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BERLIN (AP) — World governments are viewing the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with wary optimism — a possibly destabilizing moment for the region as power passes to his son but also an opportunity for a new diplomatic start

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