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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.

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Olympics closing ceremony latest: Paris Games set...
August 11, 2024
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SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The 2024 Olympics are drawing to a close Sunday with an elaborate closing ceremony at the Stade de France just north of Paris. It’s a more traditional setting after the Seine River was used for the audacious opening ceremony, but don’t expect it to be dull. There’ll be over a hundred performers, acrobats, dancers and circus artists, the organizers say. The closing ceremony is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. CEST (3 p.m. EDT), and...

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Guardians stop skid at 7, beat Twins...
August 11, 2024
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Steven Kwan homered on the second pitch of the game and Bo Naylor also went deep for the Cleveland Guardians in a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night that stopped their season-long seven-game losing streak and created some space in the narrowing AL Central race. Cleveland lengthened the lead on defending division champion Minnesota to 2 1/2 games by ending its longest skid since April 22-28, 2022. Gavin Williams (2-4) gave the Guardians...

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The Latest: Harris and Walz hold rally...
August 10, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate held a rally in Arizona as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a former astronaut and gun control advocate, had been a top contender for running mate. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump was visiting Montana for a rally in support of Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. The former...

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France has booed Joel Embiid throughout the...
August 9, 2024
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PARIS (AP) — It was Joel Embiid’s time to celebrate. And he savored every second. One of two U.S. players left on the court following their 95-91 comeback victory over Serbia in the Olympic men’s basketball semifinals, Embiid decided to dance. He shuffled up the court, pumping his hands toward the sky while teammate Anthony Edwards looked on. Embiid then did four WWE-style crotch chops. Embiid has dealt with heckles from French fans since he arrived in the country...

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Paris Olympics Day 13: COVID-hit Lyles misses...
August 9, 2024
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Noah Lyles, of the United States, rests on the track following the men’s 200-meters final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)(AP/Petr David Josek) Noah Lyles, of the United States, rests on the track following the men’s 200-meters final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)(AP/Petr David Josek) PARIS (AP) — Sprinter Noah Lyles revealed he had COVID-19 after missing out on another...

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July ends 13-month streak of global heat...
August 8, 2024
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Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced Thursday. But July 2024 ’s average heat just missed surpassing the July of a year ago, and scientists said the end of the record-breaking streak changes nothing about the threat posed by climate change. “The overall context hasn’t changed,” Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess said in...

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Montgomery Co. schools set to achieve hiring...
August 8, 2024
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Montgomery County’s recently appointed school Superintendent Thomas Taylor is excited about the coming school year. At the weekly briefing held by Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, Taylor declared, “This is going to be a great school year!” Taylor said the school system’s goal has been to fill 900 positions for the new year. Currently, 160 full-time slots remain open and 100 part-time slots are unfilled. But he added, “that’s tremendous progress,” noting that a week ago, the full-time vacancies...

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New Zealand, Australia trade barbs over accent...
August 8, 2024
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The removal of basic Māori phrases meaning “hello” and “New Zealand” from a Māori lunar new year invitation to an Australian official was not a snub of the Indigenous language by New Zealand’s government, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Wednesday, seemingly joking that it instead reflected the “incredibly simple” language required when speaking to Australians. Luxon’s defense in Parliament of the lawmaker who ordered the removal of the Māori words from an invitation sent...

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Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped...
August 8, 2024
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In her yard under the blazing sun Wednesday, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a water-logged cookbook with sentimental value that she hoped to salvage but doubted she could. Nearby, friends helped carry boxes out of her family’s garage, which was inundated this week after a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier let rip — sending floodwaters into neighborhoods like hers that never had to worry about that threat before. “We’re blessed,” she said. “Nobody was...

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In Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, company cancels plans...
August 7, 2024
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WALLACE, La. (AP) — Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project. A representative from the company, Greenfield Louisiana LLC, announced during a public hearing on Tuesday evening that the company is “ceasing all plans” to construct a grain export facility in the middle of the town of Wallace...

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The Latest: Harris picks Minnesota Gov. Tim...
August 6, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, looking to strengthen the Democratic ticket in Midwestern states. She will introduce Walz at a rally Tuesday evening in Philadelphia. Harris was the only candidate eligible to receive votes after no other candidate qualified by a deadline last week. She officially claimed the nomination Monday night when the DNC released final results. Follow the AP’s Election-2024 coverage at: https://apnews.com/hub/election-2024. Here’s the Latest: Former colleagues on...

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China launches rocket carrying new constellation of...
August 6, 2024
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China says it launched a rocket Tuesday carrying a constellation of a reported 18 satellites as part of efforts to assert its presence in space. The satellites were carried aboard a Long March-6 carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province early on Tuesday afternoon. The official Xinhua News Agency said the rocket had reached its pre-programmed orbit without incident. China’s space program has launched numerous crewed missions, put a...

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Kamala Harris is now Democratic presidential nominee,...
August 6, 2024
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants who rose through the California political and law enforcement ranks to become the first female vice president in U.S. history, formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday — becoming the first woman of color to lead a major party ticket. More than four years after her first attempt at the presidency collapsed, Harris’ coronation as her party’s standard-bearer caps a tumultuous and frenetic period for Democrats prompted...

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Rally dates are set. Venues are chosen....
August 5, 2024
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The dates are set. The venues are chosen. The only thing missing from this week’s campaign blitz with Vice President Kamala Harris and her 2024 running mate is the name of the running mate. After a weekend spent interviewing finalists, Harris must decide on her wingman before the two set off Tuesday on a tour across key battleground states where they will introduce the new Democratic ticket to voters and highlight the stakes of the election....

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Sebastian Korda wins DC Open to complete...
August 5, 2024
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sebastian Korda completed a father-son double Sunday night in the Mubadala Citi DC Open for his second ATP Tour title. Thirty-two years after father Petr won the then-Sovran Bank Classic, the fourth-seeded Korda beat 10th-seeded Flavio Cobolli of Italy 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 in a match delayed at the start because of rain. They are the first father-son tandem to win the same ATP Tour event. “We have a lot of history with this tournament,” Korda said...

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