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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.

 
North Korea shows Kim Jong Un examining...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un examined a finished military spy satellite, which his country is expected to launch soon, during a visit to his country’s aerospace agency where he described space-based reconnaissance as crucial for countering the U.S. and South Korea. Kim during Tuesday’s visit approved an unspecified “future action plan” in preparations for launching the satellite, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday. North Korea hasn’t disclosed a target date...

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Roope Hintz, Wyatt Johnston score as Stars...
DALLAS (AP) — Roope Hintz and Wyatt Johnston scored goals and the Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference final with a 2-1 win over the Seattle Kraken in Game 7 on Monday night. Dallas moves on to play first-year Stars coach Pete DeBoer’s former team, the Vegas Golden Knights. Game 1 of the West final is Friday night in Las Vegas. DeBoer improved to 7-0 in Game 7s, this being the fourth different team he led to a...

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Bregman’s homer lifts Astros over Cubs 6-4;...
HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to power the Houston Astros to a 6-4 win over the Chicago Cubs on Monday night. Houston led 4-0 after the first inning, but Christopher Morel slugged a three-run homer as the Cubs tied it by scoring four in the fourth. It was still knotted at 4-4 when Mauricio Dubón singled with two outs in the seventh. Bregman then launched his homer off Michael Fulmer...

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Djokovic overcomes mid-match lapse to beat Dimitrov...
ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s clay-court game is still a work in progress. The 22-time Grand Slam champion had to overcome a mid-match lapse before beating Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 on Sunday to reach the fourth round of the Italian Open. Struggling with his footwork, complaining about the conditions of the clay on Campo Centrale and protesting line calls, Djokovic lost four consecutive games to hand the second set to Dimitrov, who won 12 straight points at one...

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‘Guardians Vol. 3’ and ‘Super Mario Bros.’...
Several new movies infiltrated theaters nationwide this weekend, from a lighthearted trip to Italy with Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton and Mary Steenburgen to a Ben Affleck-fronted detective thriller. The two top spots were once again claimed by Marvel and Mario, however. In its second weekend, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” added $60.5 million from North American theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday. That’s a slim 49% drop from its opening, which is rare for big...

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Luis Robert Jr. stars as Chicago White...
CHICAGO (AP) — It all comes down to plate discipline for Luis Robert Jr. When he swings at strikes, good things happen for the Chicago White Sox. Robert homered and drove in two runs, and the White Sox beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Saturday night. Tim Anderson and Yoán Moncada each had three hits for the White Sox, who had lost three straight and four of five. Dylan Cease pitched six shutout innings. Chicago went ahead to stay...

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Eberle scores 2 as Kraken outshine Stars...
SEATTLE (AP) — For their first venture into the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Seattle Kraken are giving their fans quite the exciting, yet stressful experience. Two playoff series. And now, a second Game 7. “That’s all you can ask for These games are what makes playoff hockey fun,” Seattle’s Jordan Eberle said. Eberle scored twice, Eeli Tolvanen had a goal and two assists, and the Kraken beat the Dallas Stars 6-3 on Saturday night to force a deciding Game...

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Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, saying it was a great honor to meet with the pontiff, who has previously offered to do what he can to try to end the war launched by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago. Zelenskyy held his hand of his heart as the pope, using a cane, came to greet him before ushering the Ukrainian into a papal studio near the...

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This tribe’s land was cut in two...
For four hours, Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sat on a metal bench in a concrete holding space at the U.S.-Mexico border, separated from the two people he was taking to an Easter ceremony on tribal land in Arizona and wondering when they might be released. It was February 2022 and Buelna, a U.S. citizen, was driving the pair — both from the sovereign Native American nation’s related tribal community in northwestern Mexico...

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Angels rally in 9th to beat Guardians...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The five-year Cleveland curse is finally over for the Angels. Mike Trout’s leadoff double triggered a two-run rally in the ninth inning against All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase and Los Angeles held on for a 5-4 victory Friday night to end a 10-game losing streak at Progressive Field. With their 12th comeback win this season, the Angels got their first victory in Cleveland since Aug. 3, 2018, and just their second in 23 games since 2015. Officially,...

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Ukraine says it has retaken territory near...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military commanders said Friday that their troops had recaptured more territory from Russian forces at the scene of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, for the eastern city of Bakhmut, but it wasn’t clear if this marked the start of Kyiv’s long-expected counteroffensive. Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said Ukrainian forces had stepped up attacks north of the region while denying speculation by Russian military bloggers that the Kyiv forces had achieved “defense breakthroughs.” The...

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Tatum’s 4th-quarter 3s push Celtics past 76ers...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jayson Tatum humbly believes he is one of the best basketball players in the NBA and not even a lengthy streak of missed shots in a win-or-else Game 6 could shake his faith. Sometimes, though, a pep talk in the heat of the moment lifts even the most confident stars. Boston rookie coach Joe Mazzulla pulled the forward aside in a late timeout and didn’t draw a play or tell Tatum to keep shooting and soon...

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Rays improve to 30-9 after beating Yankees...
NEW YORK (AP) — Even the sternest skeptics are starting to realize the Tampa Bay Rays are for real. “There’s no reason for people to not think that. We’re capable of this, as we’ve shown,” Josh Lowe said after homering with a career-high five RBIs Thursday night in a 8-2 rout of the New York Yankees. Drew Rasmussen (4-2) extended his scoreless streak against the Yankees to 21 innings, and Tampa Bay became the first team to open 30-9...

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Ex-California cheerleading coach charged with molesting girls
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former competitive cheerleading coach has been charged with molesting girls as young as 11 years old in Southern California and he faces similar charges in Florida, prosecutors said Wednesday. Erick Joseph Kristianson, 44, of Antioch, Tennessee, was arrested last week in Fargo, North Dakota, on a warrant, the Orange County district attorney’s office said in a statement. He was extradited back to California and was being held without bail on Wednesday, according to...

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DC’s Bar Charley opens a lakefront Gaithersburg...
Charley Prime Foods has taken space formerly held by Tara Thai at 9811 Washingtonian Blvd, which closed permanently in 2022. (Courtesy Charley Prime Foods) D.C. neighborhood restaurateurs Jackie Greenbaum and Gordon Banks are venturing outside of their usual urban zones for their latest restaurant, Charley Prime Foods, which opens this weekend at Rio Lakefront in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Greenbaum & Gordon’s Bar Charley, a small Dupont Circle restaurant in a cellar with a steak heavy menu, opened in 2013. Greenbaum,...

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