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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts’ urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again Friday, and engineers on the ground were scrambling to figure out why. The astronauts …

NEW YORK – Citigroup Inc. is shedding approximately 53,000 more employees in the coming quarters as the banking giant struggles to steady itself after suffering massive losses from deteriorating debt. The New York-based bank, which has already reduced its assets by about 20 percent since the first quarter of the …

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A Kentucky widow whose husband died after gallbladder surgery at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has settled her wrongful-death lawsuit against the VA. An attorney for Katrina Shank says she agreed to a $975,000 settlement in the August 2007 death of 50-year-old Robert …