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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
Harry Styles hits Toronto for ‘My Policeman’...
TORONTO (AP) — With just as much fanfare but a tad less drama, Harry Styles took the Toronto International Film Festival by storm on Sunday, premiering the tragic gay romance “My Policeman” less than a week after the much-talked-about debut of “Don’t Worry Darling” in Venice. “My Policeman,” in which Styles stars alongside Emma Corrin and David Dobson, features arguably the fullest dramatic performance yet from 28-year-old pop star. He stars as a closeted 1950s policeman in Brighton, England,...

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Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin takes long road...
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — In a slow, somber and regal procession, Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin was driven through the Scottish countryside Sunday from her beloved Balmoral Castle to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. Mourners packed city streets and highway bridges or lined rural roads with cars and tractors to take part in a historic goodbye to the monarch who reigned for 70 years. The hearse drove past piles of bouquets and other tributes as it led a seven-car...

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Efforts to put ’72 Olympic medals in...
Members of the 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team have talked about finally retrieving those silver medals they vowed to never accept and left behind in Germany. No, they still don’t want them for themselves. They believe the medals belong in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, but the latest attempt to get them from the International Olympic Committee has been thwarted. To get the medals a home in the Hall of Fame — which is holding its induction...

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Albanian police force open Iranian Embassy after...
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian special forces police forced the door of the Iranian Embassy in Tirana on Thursday and officers surrounded the compound in which it stands, shortly after the last staff members left the building following the government’s order to expel them. The officers, in full fighting gear, entered the building first and were followed by other officers carrying equipment and accompanied by a dog. The Albanian government on Wednesday had given the embassy’s staff 24 hours...

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Ginobili and his Eurostep reach Basketball Hall...
The first clue that, no, Manu Ginobili did not invent the Eurostep should come from the move’s name. Ginobili isn’t from Europe. He’s from South America. And it’s not called the South Ameristep. Perhaps it should be. The long, lateral move — step one way to get a defender leaning, then cut the other way into open space — was Ginobili’s signature, something he mastered, something that he brought into the mainstream. In turn, it brought him to the...

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German chancellery’s extension costs rise by 177M...
BERLIN (AP) — The cost of the German chancellery’s planned extension will rise to 777 million euros ($773 million), which is 177 million euros more than initially planned. The increase in costs is related to integrating new climate protection measures, a tunnel for deliveries that hadn’t been included in the initial building plan, rising prices of material due to inflation and other issues, a senior German official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy said...

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R. Kelly ex-manager tells jurors boss never...
CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly’s former business manager told jurors Wednesday he never believed allegations of sexual misconduct that emerged against his boss, saying he came to understand that fending off false claims was a cost of doing business for a superstar. Derrell McDavid, a co-defendant at Kelly’s child pornography and trial-fixing trial in federal court in Chicago, said he saw no signs Kelly sought minors for sex, blaming Kelly enemies and those hoping to profit off his...

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Justin Suh finally makes his way onto...
Justin Suh was part of four college stars at the Travelers Championship in 2019, all playing on exemptions with big expectations. Matthew Wolff won two weeks later in Minnesota. Collin Morikawa won two weeks after that at the Barracuda Championship. Viktor Hovland earned his card at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals and picked up his first win in Puerto Rico the following February. And for Suh, it was the slow road. The All-American from USC made only one cut...

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1 dead, 9 missing after floatplane crashes...
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard was continuing to search Monday for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. The body of a 10th person was recovered by a good Samaritan on Sunday after the crash was reported at 3:11 p.m., Coast Guard spokesperson William Colclough said Monday. The Northwest Seaplanes flight left Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan...

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1 dead, 9 missing after float plane...
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) — One person was killed and nine people remained missing after a float plane crashed in the Puget Sound in Washington state on Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The agency said via Twitter the plane was flying from Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, to Renton, Washington. Previously the Coast Guard had said the plane was flying to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The crash reported at 3:11 p.m. Sunday happened in...

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Chicharito lifts Galaxy into 2-2 draw with...
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Chicharito scored the equalizer for the LA Galaxy in a 2-2 draw with Sporting Kansas City on Sunday. Chicharito, who scored both LA goals, scored the equalizer in the 88th minute on a penalty kick. Johnny Russell and Felipe Hernandez scored for Sporting KC (8-15-6). Sporting KC outshot the Galaxy (11-11-6) 15-9. Both teams had five shots on goal. Jonathan Bond saved three of the five shots he faced for the Galaxy. John Pulskamp had...

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Fuel leak ruins NASA’s 2nd shot at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies. The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team tried to plug Saturday’s leak the way...

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Feds cite efforts to obstruct probe of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says classified documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the discovery of the government records. The FBI also seized boxes and containers holding more than 100 classified records during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and found classified documents stashed in Trump’s office, according to a filing that lays out the most...

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S. Korea may conduct survey on BTS...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea may conduct a public survey to help determine whether to grant exemption to the mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boyband BTS, officials said Wednesday. The question of active military service for the band’s seven members has been a hot-button topic in South Korea as its oldest member, Jin, faces his enlistment in December, when he turns 30. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup told lawmakers that he ordered officials to implement...

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NASA scrubs launch of new moon rocket...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Monday after a last-minute cascade of problems culminating in unexplained engine trouble. The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest and could be off until mid-September or later. The mission, when it happens, will be the first flight in NASA’s Artemis project, a quest to put astronauts back on...

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