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  • to associate themselves with senior leader Deng Xiaoping, as they hope to become his replacement. Deng is 92 years old, essentially out of politics, but he's still an important man in China. Recently, state television aired a 12-part, 10-hour documentary on his life. Later this year, the Chinese government will officially announce his successor.
  • announcement yesterday that a French manufacturer -- and French aviation authorities -- should bear the blame for a deadly airplane crash in Indiana in 1994. According to the NTSB, the ATR Corporation failed to warn pilots that one of its planes was vulnerable to ice formation on its wings. Just such a build-up of ice caused the crash of American Eagle flight 4184, killing 68 people.
  • about a person's access to medical records and an insurance company's obligation to release them. The case involves a Mississippi woman whose husband died from AIDS. She is suing Jackson National Life insurance company because it knew he had HIV three years before he died from AIDS but did not tell him.
  • The search for the ancient relic led a group of police officers to a village pub in England. They didn't find it.
  • France's fencing federation hopes the move will lure people addicted to their screens to exercise more. Lightsaber instructors will train people to take part in three-minute bouts.
  • The U.S. jobless rate dropped below 6 percent in September, the lowest it's been since July 2008. And employers added 248,000 new jobs to their payrolls, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Kentucky’s Department for Environmental Protection sampled every major watershed in Kentucky and found PFAS in 90 percent of the surface waters.
  • Federal prosecutors say reporter James Risen has information they need about a former CIA operative accused of divulging classified information.
  • NPR's David Greene talks to Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg about the hacking of credit reporting agency Equifax. Hackers may have gained access to data from 143 million Americans.
  • In a new report released Wednesday, the inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs says that the department has frequently manipulated records to hide medical care delays. Investigators focused their probe on a hospital in Phoenix, Ariz.
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