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10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who has been waiting 18 months for lung transplant is recovering from surgery

New lungs for girl who changed transplant policy

A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis has new lungs this morning.

Sarah Murnaghan made headlines over the past few weeks as her family fought to get her on the adult transplant list.

Rescue workers rush to save men trapped on scaffold suspended from the top of the Hearst Tower in New York City

Men trapped and dangling from skyscraper

Two New York maintenance workers dangled over 40 stories above ground when their scaffolding collapsed yesterday.

It took an hour and a half for them to get down from near the top of the iconic Hearst Tower near Columbus Circle. 

 Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in downtown on June 12, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

Amazing photo: Willis Tower hit by lightning

Look at this picture of lightning striking the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago taken by Getty Images photographer Scott Olson last night.

The weather in the windy city was so rough it knocked out power to at least 32-thousand people and more than 500 flights were canceled.

File photo: ason Leffler, driver of the #18 Dollar General Toyota, waits in the garage area during practice for the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 200 at Rockingham Speedway on April 14, 2012 in Rockingham, North Carolina.

Morning read: Thursday, June 13

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Designer Chloe Dao

A designer’s American dream

“I was a big old nerd, but I was a fashionable nerd!”

That’s how fashion designer Chloe Dao describes her childhood years. Born in Laos, Cambodia, Dao immigrated to Texas with her parents and eight sisters in 1971.

Robin Meade recording the song "This Just In" off her new CD "Count On Me"

This just in: Robin Meade's a songwriter too!

Here's a glimpse inside the Nashville studio where Robin Meade recorded songs on her sophomore CD "Count On Me."

Meade wrote 7 of the songs on the album, and says that songwriting is a lot like reporting the news. In fact, the song "This Just In" is a love story inspired by those famous words you hear from the anchor desk when news is breaking!

Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berry mix sold at Costco & Harris Teeter stores blamed for hepatitis A outbreak

Hepatitis A outbreak growing

Check your freezer, a hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen fruit is getting bigger.

No one has died, but the number of people getting sick with hepatitis A more than doubled to 87 and it's now in 8 states (the ones in yellow on the map above).

File photo: Ariel Castro accused of kidnapping and holding 3 women for nearly 10 years

Accused Cleveland kidnapper in court today

This morning, accused kidnapper Ariel Castro is expected to say the words "Not guilty."

He'll be arraigned in Cleveland on more than 300 counts of kidnapping, rape and murder. The murder charge is for allegedly causing a miscarriage.

A protester throws back a tear gas canister at a barricade in central Ankara on June 12, 2013 during clashes with Turkish riot police.

Tear gas, fireworks hurled in Turkish protests

Overnight, protesters in Istanbul and several other cities in Turkey dodged tear gas and water cannons while lobbing fireworks at police.

A protest over a park being torn down has turned into a fight to get the prime minister to step down.

Fast-moving wildfires lit up central Colorado, forcing thousands from their homes and scorching some 12,000 acres of brush and timber. Of the five fires burning, the most problematic was the Black Forest Fire.

Morning read: Wednesday, June 12

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