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Booths that sell paper pull-tab games like this one have new competition in Minnesota: electronic pull-tab games played on iPads. The games are meant to help pay for a new football stadium in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Uses iPad Gambling To Help Fund New NFL Stadium

Minnesota gamblers no longer have to rip paper pull-tabs to see if they've won cash: As of this week, they can use an iPad to play games that give them instant feedback. The venture was sparked by a need to raise money to help for an NFL football stadium costing an estimated $975 million.

The genetic factors responsible for a cat's stripes might help researchers understand disease resistance in humans.

Could Genes For Stripes Help Kitty Fight Disease?

Different lineages of cat with the same coloration got their looks in unique ways. The genetic variants that determine those patterns come from different mutations in the same genes. And that has some scientists thinking there may be more to the genes than meets the eye.

Workers assemble one of the many car models at Chinese carmaker's Chery Automobile plant in Wuhu, east China's Anhui province.

Are Chinese Exporters Cheating?

When it comes to trade between China and the US, this one complaint comes up a lot. Some people say China is rigging the game in favor of their exports.

Festival in the Desert

Fri. 9/21 10p: Special edition of our travels to Mali's legendary Festival in the Desert from 2003.At the this time when Mali marks its independence…

'New York Times' Bans Practice Of Allowing Sources To Approve Quotes

The practice is widespread in Washington, but the Times said it wants to draw a "clear line."

The artificial cave built for bats in Tennessee has a human entrance below and a bat entrance above. In the summer, any fungus left by the bats over the winter will be cleaned up.

Man-Made Cave Built To Shelter Bats From Infection

The artificial cave could house hundreds of thousands of bats, helping them escape a devastating infection called white-nose syndrome. As bats continue to die off, scientists are seeking quick and effective ways to protect them from an invasive fungus that grows naturally in caves.

Mitt Romney speaks in Miami on Wednesday.

Parties Debate Meaning, Value Of 'Redistribution'

Mitt Romney's campaign is calling President Obama a redistributionist as a way to change the "47 percent" discussion. But in fact, taking from some and giving to others is a concept long enshrined in the nation's tax code.

U.S. officials and Libyan militiamen met to discuss the deteriorating security in Benghazi just two days before the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Stevens is shown here at the consulate in June.

Libyan Militiaman Says He Warned U.S. Of Dangers

Two days before the attack on the American Consulate in Libya, U.S. officials and pro-government Libyan militias discussed the growing risks in Benghazi, according to a militia leader. He didn't cite a specific threat, but said security in Benghazi was deteriorating.

President Obama got few if any softball questions when he had his turn at a Univision forum for the two major-party presidential candidates.

Despite Obama's High Latino Support, Univision Puts Him On Hot Seat

A Univision interviewer asked President Obama if it wasn't true that he had broken his campaign pledge to introduce a comprehensive immigration reform package early in his presidency. That was a place Obama wasn't willing to go.

Space Shuttle Endeavour sits atop the shuttle aircraft carrier, flies over downtown Austin, Texas early Thursday.

Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands In California

On its way, it made a special flyover in Tucson, Ariz. in honor of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

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