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The Atlantic Hurricane season has come to an end, and it was a quiet year in the United States. But in Mexico and Nicaragua, two Category 5 storms did a lot of damage. Scientists argue about whether global warming is affecting hurricanes, and this year won’t help settle the question.

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The Atlantic Hurricane season has come to an end, and it was a quiet year in the United States. But in Mexico and Nicaragua, two Category 5 storms did a lot of damage. Scientists argue about whether global warming is affecting hurricanes, and this year won’t help settle the question.

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Former General Motors chief executive Roger Smith has died. He was 82. Smith led the automaker during the 1980s, when the company created the Saturn brand. He was the subject of Michael Moore’s documentary Roger and Me.

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On the 14th anniversary of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation, a group of retired military officers release a letter opposing the policy and urging leniency on gays and lesbians in the military. On the National Mall on Friday, gay and lesbian groups protested the legislation.

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Venezuelans go to the polls Sunday to vote on a hefty set of constitutional reforms that would give President Hugo Chavez greater power and also lift presidential term limits. But in the run-up to the vote, several key Chavez supporters have turned against him. Plus, a number of polls suggest that Chavez’s proposed reforms may be defeated at the ballot box.

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An illegal immigrant stopped his trek to Tucson, Ariz., to aid a 9-year-old American boy stranded after his mother died in a car wreck. Tony Estrada, the sheriff for Santa Cruz County in Arizona, talks with Melissa Block.

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Venezuelans go to the polls Sunday to vote on a hefty set of constitutional reforms that would give President Hugo Chavez greater power and also lift presidential term limits. But in the run-up to the vote, several key Chavez supporters have turned against him. Plus, a number of polls suggest that Chavez’s proposed reforms may be defeated at the ballot box.

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An Amtrak passenger train rams the back of a freight train in Chicago, injuring at least five employees. Up to 150 passengers were on board the Amtrak train when it came to a “very hard stop.” It was unclear what caused the accident, only that the two trains were on the same track.

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Police arrested a man suspected of taking hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, N.H. The man is suspected of claiming to have a bomb and holding at least four people hostage. He released three of the captives earlier in the day.

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A man claiming to have a bomb held at least four hostages at Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign office in Rochester, N.H., before releasing three of the captives.

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