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Mario Draghi is named Italy’s new prime minister, announces a political rainbow of cabinet picks

Italy’s next government has taken shape, after Mario Draghi was named Prime Minister and announced a cabinet selected from across the country’s political spectrum. Draghi, a prominent economist, accepted the top role on Friday and later that day read out a list of ministerial picks designed to create buy-in among political parties that have battled

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Children’s Hospital doctor performs first pediatric procedure with surgical robot

Click here for updates on this story     Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — Technology that may have seemed like a page from the future fifty years ago, is now a part of the ‘here and now’ for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. One of its doctors, Dr. Claudia Berrondo, recently performed the first successful pediatric operation using

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Judge says astronomer’s case against American Girl doll can proceed, dismisses some claims

Click here for updates on this story     Madison (Wisconsin State Journal ) — AChicago astronomer’s claim that Middleton-based dollmaker American Girl appropriated the astronomer’s likeness will go forward, a federal judge ruled Thursday, though he dismissed some of the claims made in the lawsuit. U.S. District Judge James Peterson said he would allow Lucianne Walkowicz,

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