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Cuba waits anxiously
It was supposed to be Cuba's economic savior: vast untapped reserves of black gold buried deep under the rocky ocean floor.
Golden Gate Bridge celebration
Crowds gathered along San Francisco's waterfront as the city celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Etan Patz case
For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases.
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