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WASHINGTON – The commissioners of pro baseball, basketball and hockey told Congress on Wednesday they want to toughen their steroid (search) policies, drawing praise from lawmakers intent on legislating standardized drug-testing across U.S. professional sports. In an unusual gathering of some of the most powerful people in American sports, the …

GREENBELT, Md. – The birth of a black hole has been captured for the first time, a NASA scientist said Monday. NASA’s Swift orbiting observatory (search) detected the gamma-ray burst of the collision between two dense neutron stars about early Monday and pointed its visible light and X-ray telescopes at …

UNITED NATIONS – The monthlong U.N. conference to review the work of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (search) remained bogged down in its seventh day on Tuesday in disputes over the agenda. The impasse threatened to keep the more than 180 national delegations from dealing with major issues at a time …