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Five of Michigan's GOP candidates for governor were removed from the race after using fraudulent signatures to get on the ballot. But Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will still need to work hard to keep office.

Scientists have been trying to understand why a glacier in West Antarctica has been melting so quickly, so they sent a 20-foot robotic sub underneath the thick, floating ice to play detective. The small underwater mountain range it found could be a case study for other neighboring glaciers.

Ari Berman of The Nation lists three ways the controversy-filled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steel can learn from his counterpart, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

Energy giant BP said Monday that a key test planned ahead of the "static kill" procedure -- the first of two steps intended to seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well for good -- was postponed on Monday. Crews hope to begin the test later Tuesday.

At a White House news conference, the president announced new steps in the aftermath of the disaster, as administration officials awaited the results of the "top kill" attempt to close the well spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. and Russia are working out a deal to trade 10 accused Russian spies for a defense researcher and others. This would be the first such swap in a while, but from the 1960s onward, it was a fairly frequent occurrence for Eastern bloc nations and the West to trade captured and accused spies.

President Obama's small-business bill became law this week, but Larry Kudlow of the National Review argues that small business owners don't want it. Instead of being handed a bailout, they want the economy to grow, which means tax cuts for all businesses, not just small ones.

Nell Greenfieldboyce describes her travels to Greenland to report on narwhals — whales with a long, spiral unicorn horn. In the tiny town on a remote fjord, during the 24-hours of sunlight season, she writes: "Life seemed to slow down. I did not want to leave."

The Senate Finance Committee votes 14-9 to approve a sweeping remake of the country's health care system, setting up a historic debate on the Senate floor and moving a health care overhaul closer to reality than it has been for decades. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine cast the lone Republican vote.

As new members begin freshman orientation and the veterans open a lame-duck session, both parties will elect leaders for the Congress that begins in January. The speaker of the Republican-led House likely will be John Boehner of Ohio, who has taken turns as both a tough guy and a negotiator in his 20 years in Congress.