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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Jury selection has begun in the retrial of a man accused of raping and strangling a fellow Eastern Michigan University student. Twenty-one-year-old Orange Taylor III is charged with murder in the December 2006 death of 22-year-old Laura Dickinson. The first jury deadlocked. The U.S. Education Department …

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a machine that can read your mind — sort of. Associate professor of psychology Jack Gallant and two researchers, Kendrick Kay and Thomas Naselaris, first trained a computer program to recognize which of a set of 1,750 photos Kay and Naselaris …

NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia – President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the West should not expect relations with Russia to be any easier under his newly elected successor, who is “no less of a Russian nationalist” than Putin. Putin said many observers view Dmitry Medvedev as a more liberal politician and hope …