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NASA has released the first collection of views from the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to new imagers installed in May 2009 during a visit from the space shuttle Atlantis, the 19-year-old orbiting observatory is more powerful than ever.

Preliminary results show President Hamid Karzai exceeding the threshold needed to avoid a runoff. But the commission charged with investigating Afghanistan's election says it has found "clear and convincing evidence of fraud" and has ordered a recount of questionable polling stations.

Gore Verbinski, the director of Dreamworks’ The Ring, suggests this trend signals how “Hollywood is just starved for any original ideas, we’ve kind of remade all of our own movies and we’re looking somewhere else, it’s like foreign oil.”

Bryan Singer guided two "X-Men" films to worldwide grosses of $700 million. But the latest installment of the "X-Men" saga, "The Last Stand" (opening May 26 throughout San Diego) has a new director at the helm, Brett Ratner. Will fans stand with Singer or join up with the new leader, Ratner?

President Obama is going all-in to revive his health care overhaul effort. Polls show the passion lies with those who oppose the president's plans, but they also reveal that the public is hungry to know what's in it for them.

Ombudsman Alicia Shepard for National Public Radio talks about ethics in journalism today. If it looks like torture, sounds like torture and apparently feels like torture, should reporters call it torture? Is the term health care reform actually a partisan slap against our current form of health care? Shepard answers these and other questions.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a massive school closing wouldn't stop the spread of the swine flu virus, saying vaccinations must be the defense against a menace that one report said could infect up to half of the population.

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Every Wednesday night, the streets in Tijuana, Mexico, are filled with hundreds of bicyclists who ride in spite of the city's notorious violence. They want to show that the streets can be safe and that Tijuana is a family-friendly place.

U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan and local civilians now share a grim common enemy: death by roadside bomb. The deadly bombs have become a favorite tool of the Taliban, who are shifting away from ambushes and frontal assaults.