After weeks of giving Earth the silent treatment, NASA’s Voyager 2 probe is once again communicating with mission control from billions of miles away.
Author: Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY
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2 arrested after a boat that ran out of fuel in Florida had 23 Cuban migrants aboard
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