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SPACE CENTER, Houston – NASA said Wednesday that the mysterious object that came flying off Space Shuttle Discovery‘s (search) fuel tank during liftoff was a sizable chunk of foam insulation — the very thing that doomed Columbia. But this time, fortunately, it didn’t hit the spacecraft. Space agency officials also …

WASHINGTON – The possibility of two Supreme Court vacancies — following Sandra Day O’Connor’s (search) planned retirement and speculation surrounding Chief Justice William Rehnquist (search) — increases chances that President Bush will nominate the court’s first Hispanic justice, observers say. That nomination would be a milestone for America’s fastest-growing minority …

WASHINGTON – U.S. employers added 146,000 jobs in June, below Wall Street forecasts, but job growth was revised up for April and May and unemployment rate fell to its lowest point since September 2001. The latest snapshot of the nation’s jobs climate, released by the Labor Department on Friday, supported …