Go behind the scenes as White House pastry chef Bill Yosses reveals a presidential spread of Halloween treats children will receive at the home’s front door this year.

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SPIRIT UPDATE: In X-Band Fault Mode – sols 2050-2055, Oct. 09-14, 2009: Spirit is still in X-band fault mode due to a high-gain antenna dynamic brake anomaly that first occurred back on Sol 2027 and has re-occurred most recently on Sol 2052 .

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Officials say a Florida Panhandle Fish and Wildlife officer lost a 5-foot alligator after bringing it to his daughter’s school for show and tell.

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A Michigan dentist is putting a new twist on trick or treating.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Israel to make a new push to resume stalled Mideast peace talks.

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What’s all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats’ push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent.

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But the court also questioned whether an ordinance banning commercial farms but allowing smaller wind generators for personal use violated some provisions of the U.S. Constitution.

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Residents of Ohio’s capital city are complaining that police officers are telling them to move out if they’re fed up with neighborhood crime.

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Almost anyone can carve a jack-o-lantern, but a group of scuba divers did it 30 feet underwater during a pumpkin carving contest in the Florida Keys.

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By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other languages using non-Latin alphabets, the organization overseeing Internet domain names announced Friday in a decision that could make the Web more accessible.

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