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Instrumental in having pieced together, picture by picture, the cosmos, the Hubble telescope has, as it was revealed today, taken its most deepest view of the cosmos yet, discovering a number of new galaxies, some of which had been formed quite close to the Big Bang.

Led by a team from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Edinburgh, the new study had the Hubble Telescope study “redshifted” light, or light that emitted somewhere around 600 million years to 380 million years after the Big Bang.

The "who's who" of the music industry and comedy world were present for a star-studded benefit concert at Madison Square GardenMadison Square Garden in New York City to raise funds for Superstorm Sandy on the much-talked-about date of 12/12/12. The performers included musicians Bruce Springsteen, Sir Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eric ClaptonEric Clapton, Alicia KeysAlicia Keys, Kanye WestKanye West, funnymen Jon StewartJon Stewart and Adam Sandler, and more—all of whom rocked the Garden for a good cause.

After a review by former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, all New Orleans Saints player suspensions following their Bounty-gate scandal have been vacated.

Tagliabue ruled that current commissioner Roger Goodell's punishments for the players essentially didn't fit the crime.

With the entire nation about to face higher taxes, including the middle class, the Republican House majority compromised Tuesday night and accepted President Obama’s plan for dealing temporarily with funding government. The rich would have been hit hard by the ending of tax cuts passed under President George Bush, even if the Senate-passed tax hikes were not approved.

Obama appeared to try to avoid gloating, but made it clear he felt he had kept his central campaign promise.

In a split decision Tuesday, the Illinois Supreme Court ordered that a preliminary injunction be lifted that had been granted to a state workers' union trying to keep some of the state's prisons open.

The decree clears the way for Governor Pat Quinn to close the high-security (Super-max) Tamms prison, in Alexander County; the state's largest women's prison in Dwight; juvenile detention centers in Murphysboro and Joliet; and three halfway houses for inmates nearing release dates.

CHICAGO - Alderman Sandi Jackson (7th Ward), wife of former congressman Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), has vowed not to resign unless something 'catastrophic' happens. She also says she's not a candidate to fill her husband's congressional seat and is undecided about if and when she'll take up permanent residence in Chicago.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell, along with his fiancé, Brent Ridge, won the 21st season of “The Amazing Race” on Sunday night. Kilmer-Purcell stated on Monday that he would be quitting his job at advertising agency JWT New York and joining Ridge in Sharon Springs, N.Y., where the couple owns a farm that has been featured in another reality TV series, “The Fabulous Beekman Boys” and is also the subject of a book titled “The Bucolic Plague”.

It’s official: Apple Maps is so bad it could kill you.

According to Australian police, don’t use the application if you are driving around in the rural Southeastern Australian desert. Users can find themselves in a “life-threatening situation.”

The infamously glitchy application, recently included in Apple’s iOS 6 operating system update, has come under fire for leading many astray. But in Australia, the bad directions have landed several drivers in hot situations.

The Sydney radio station whose prank apparently led to the suicide of a London nurse caring for Princess Kate says it is giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to her family.

2Day FM said it would give all the money it makes from advertising the rest of the year plus $525,000 to start, the Australian reported.

While speculation was rife as to the exact, previous missions of the United States Air Force’s “space plane,” the craft was sent to its third mission on Tuesday.

The X-37B craft, part space shuttle and part plane, has previously flown two missions in the past couple of years, being sent to Earth’s orbit for extended periods of time with little to no details as to what the space plane might be doing there and what the US Air Force may be getting from the space craft’s missions.

Shrouded in mystery, the official line on the space plane’s missions is to act as an "experimental test program