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• Toxic PCBs linger in schools; EPA, lawmakers fail to act

  Despite the dangers, the Environmental Protection Agency has not attempted to determine the scope of PCB contamination or assess potential health risks, in large part because of lack of funding, political pressure and pushback from industry and education groups, according to dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of documents examined by The Associated Press.

• 6-year-old boy missing for 10 hours found by drone with thermal camera

  Ethan was found safe with his dog at about 1:50 a.m. on Wednesday, in a cornfield about a mile and a half from his home.

• Video: Huge cruise ship squeezes through canal to claim record

  WOW! Carrying 929 passengers, the cruise ship narrowly managed to squeeze through the rocky walls of the canal -- which measures a maximum of 25 meters wide at the water's surface .

• 'He's a walking miracle': School resource officer, nurse save teen after his heart stopped

  "I don't think I would be here right now if it were not for them," the teen said.

• See NASA's new spacesuits for the moon and beyond

  NASA is showing off the newly designed spacesuits astronauts will wear during the agency's mission to the moon.