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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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California Gov. Gavin Newsom nudges school districts...
August 13, 2024
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California and South Carolina could become the next states to limit cellphone use in schools, with state officials taking up the issue Tuesday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict students’ use of smartphones on campus. South Carolina’s State Board of Education took up guidelines to tell local districts to ban cellphone use during class time, but postponed a final vote until next month to take more time...

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Musk’s interview with Trump marred by technical...
August 13, 2024
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Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform. Eighteen minutes into a conversation that was supposed to start at 8 p.m. EDT., Musk posted on X that the platform was experiencing a “massive” denial-of-service attack (DDOS), which is a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Outage tracker Downdetector...

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Donald Trump is returning to X for...
August 12, 2024
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Donald Trump is returning — at least for one night — to do a live interview Monday on X, the platform from which he was banned for nearly two years following the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol. Trump and Elon Musk, X’s owner, are slated to have what the tech titan has termed a “live conversation” at 8 p.m. Eastern Time that will be “unscripted with no limits on subject matter, so should be highly entertaining!”...

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Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett, Miley Cyrus and...
August 12, 2024
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disney bestowed “legends” status on 14 artists, including Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett and Miley Cyrus, who have shaped the company. The honorees, who the company says have had a “significant impact” on Disney’s legacy, include director James Cameron, iconic film composer John Williams, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Ripa, among several others. This year’s class of Disney Legends was inducted into the company’s version of the hall of fame in a ceremony Sunday at The...

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Imane Khelif and Katie Ledecky among the...
August 11, 2024
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PARIS (AP) — Algerian boxing champion Imane Khelif will be among the flag bearers when Olympic athletes bid farewell to the Paris Games in a closing ceremony at France’s national stadium on Sunday night. Khelif faced criticism and false claims about her sex, then won gold in the women’s 66 kg class. Other gold medalists who will do the honors are U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky and French rugby star Antoine Dupont. There’s an air of anticipation of over what...

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Ukraine’s president indirectly acknowledges daring military incursion...
August 11, 2024
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Days after Ukraine began a surprise military incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has broken the government’s silence on it by indirectly acknowledging the ongoing military actions to “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.” Zelenskyy’s comment came in his nightly address late Saturday. Ukraine’s incursion into Russia continued for a sixth day Sunday. It’s the largest such attack since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022 and is...

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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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