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NEW YORK – Billionaire financier Kenneth Langone Monday asked a New York state judge to dismiss him from a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over his alleged role setting the controversial compensation of former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso. Langone, head of Invermed Associates …

CHICAGO – Three high school students were shot Tuesday morning on a street near their school, and one was in critical condition, officials said. The shootings happened shortly before 8 a.m. near Carl Schurz High School, Chicago Police spokeswoman Patrice Harper said. The victims are male students — two freshmen …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – High winds forced NASA to scrub the launch Tuesday of an unmanned spacecraft on a nine-year, 3-billion-mile voyage to Pluto, the solar system’s last unexplored planet. NASA planned to try again Wednesday to launch the New Horizons probe, although the forecast held a greater chance of …