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Astros Tie World Series, Beat Dodgers 7-6 In Game 2

The Houston Astros won one of the wildest World Series games ever Wednesday night — to even the series against the LA Dodgers. The game went into extra innings with both teams slugging home runs.

The owner of a Jerusalem auction house holds up a note on happiness written by Albert Einstein in 1922. The note, which Einstein gave to a courier in lieu of a tip, sold for $1.56 million on Tuesday to an anonymous buyer.

Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million

The physicist had just won the 1921 Nobel Prize when he scribbled his theory of happy living on a piece of hotel stationery and handed it to the courier at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo.

Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced that he will turn down a job offer to become head of the New York City schools.

He Will, He Won't: Miami School Superintendent Rejects NYC's Top Job

In an emotional session of an emergency school board meeting, Dade County's Alberto Carvalho rejected a job offer announced just the day before.

Polls Begin Closing In 6 States Across the U.S.

Polls are closing in Virginia, Indiana, Georgia, Vermont, Kentucky and South Carolina. Georgia is a reliably Republican state that could be close this year.

Chris Costa and one of her chickens on her farm in Downingtown, Pa. Costa and her partner, T.J., found the land for this farm through a sustainable agriculture program.

Kind of Like 'eFarmony': Matching Farmers With Urban Landowners For Fun And Profit

With the price of suburban farmland sky high, matchmakers are setting up landowners who want to lease their land to small farmers seeking to expand their growing areas and be closer to urban areas.

Vice President George H.W. Bush accepts the Republican nomination for president in 1988. In that speech, he laid out a promise that he would later break, hurting his chance at re-election and changing his party.

6 Little Words Helped Make George H.W. Bush (A 1-Term) President

"Read my lips" succeeded at countering Bush's image problem. But if it improved his chances of being elected in 1988, it may have ruined his chances of being re-elected in 1992.

Trump Presidency Will Top Agenda At European Union Foreign Ministers Meeting

European foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Brussels on Sunday to discuss how the EU can work with the new U.S. president-elect.

Together, José Ortíz (center left) and Ethan Leder (center right) — without the help of any major agency or aid organization — chartered a plane to Puerto Rico filled with donated medical supplies and get people with acute medical needs out of the island for treatment in the continental U.S.

2 Strangers, A 6-Page List And A Plan Hatched To Help Puerto Rico

They had never met, but quickly came up with a plan to get medical supplies to a town desperately in need.

Crosscurrents: February 6, 2014

Pension reform in San Jose, Oaklandish, this week's Audiograph answer, and local musicians Professor Burns and the Lilac Field.

Also: Retiring GOP Sen. Corker could oppose his party's tax plan; President Trump says this could be the "calm before the storm" but won't explain; and questions on Catalonia's independence efforts.

73 Dead After Egyptian Soccer Match Turns Violent

The worst soccer violence in Egypt's history left 73 dead and many more were wounded Wednesday, according to the official count. Clashes broke out at the end of a match in the city of Port Said, located at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.

Thursday February 6, 2014

37th Day of 2014 / 328 RemainingDays Until The First Day of SpringSunrise:7:07Sunset:5:3910 Hours 32 Minutes of DaylightMoon Rise:11:15amMoon…

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