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1. Israel receives remains of hostage that Hamas says is IDF soldier killed in 2014

   Hadar Goldin was killed on Aug. 1, 2014, two hours after a ceasefire took effect ending that year's war between Israel and Hamas.

2. A first-time HPV vaccination campaign sees some success -- and strong resistance

   The goal: inoculate 90% of girls in parts of Pakistan to immunize them against the infection that causes cervical cancer. "Our biggest challenge was to counter misinformation," says a spokesman.

3. Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

   "I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."

4. Many would-be buyers are frozen out of the housing market

   Only about one in five homes sold in the last year went to a first-time buyer. And the average person buying their first home was 40 years old — a record high. A new report from the National Association of Realtors shows how challenging it's become for young people to get a foothold in today's costly housing market.

5. Nearly a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens the Philippines

   Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country's northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday.

6. Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

   A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.

7. Trump says boat crews are narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced, AP finds

   In interviews in villages on Venezuela's northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists.

8. 4 dead, 11 injured after a car chased by police plows into a crowd outside Tampa bar

   A deadly crash in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood early Saturday morning has left four people dead and 11 injured.

9. After 40 years, plans to deploy a new undersea habitat are in progress

   A British engineering and research company is unveiling a "subsea human habitat," a base that four people can live and work in for missions of a week or more. It's the first new underwater habitat developed since the 1980s.

10. CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study

    An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease.