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YouTube sensation 13-year-old girl with cancer creates her own fashion line

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Talia Joy Castellano, the 13-year-old who has been battling two types of cancer for six years by making makeup tutorials on YouTube, just accomplished her next … Read More

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Like Angelina Jolie, California woman shares experience on opting for double mastectomy

By Rachelle Murcia, KGET, Bakersfield, California

Instead of a bold move on the red carpet, actress Angelina Jolie stunned audiences by announcing in the New York Times she had a double mastectomy. She says she … Read More

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Retired NYPD captain hopes a stranger donates bone marrow to save his life

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Once robust, Steven Bonano used to say it wasn't a job, but “a calling” for him to be a law enforcer and protect the innocent.  A 30-year veteran of the … Read More

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New study links obesity and fighting cancer

By Dr. Bruce Hensel, KNBC, Los Angeles, California

Researchers have found that obesity increases the risk of cancer. A study out of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles revealed the many things fat cells can do to … Read More

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Latina Leaders: Dr. Guillermina Lozano wins prize for cancer research

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Guillermina “Gigi” Lozano, Ph.D. was drawn to science ever since she was a freshman in high school. “I didn’t know what research was, and I didn’t … Read More

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, people surround the flag-draped coffin carrying the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez as his supporters crowd the streets during the procession from the hospital where he died on Tuesday to a military academy where his body will lie in state in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Miraflores Presidential Press Office)

A day of tears after Chavez death in Venezuela

By Paul Haven, Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez's tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his … Read More

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Telemundo Latin America news roundup- March 5, 2013

By NBCLatino Staff

The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Mexico’s most powerful teachers’ union leader, Elba Esther Gordillo, will stand trial on charges of … Read More

Venezuelans react to the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on March 05, 2013. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)

Venezuelans in U.S. react to Chavez’s death, while a nation awaits an uncertain future

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In the town of Doral, nicknamed ‘Doralzuela’ because of the number of Venezuelan-Americans who live in the community, Mayor Luigi Boria, the first … Read More

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez attends the "South Of The Border" premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

[PHOTOS] Hugo Chavez dies: A look through the years from his rise to power to his death

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1998 - Hugo Chavez sweeps into power In 1992, the former army paratrooper Hugo Chavez led a failed military coup against then President Carlos Andres Perez. … Read More

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Hugo Chavez confirmed dead

By Mark Potter, NBC Miami

He was loved and hated at home...respected and ridiculed abroad. Born to a family of teachers in 1954, Chavez joined the Venezuelan army, where he came to … Read More