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NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press on September 24th, 2023
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set ... Read More »
1 responseToddler and 2 adults fatally shot in Florida during argument over dog sale, authorities say
By The Associated Press on September 24th, 2023
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – A 3-year-old child and two adults were fatally shot late Saturday at a Florida apartment complex during an apparent dispute over the sale of a dog, authorities said. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D. Stronko told reporters that five people, including the child, had gone to a luxury apartment complex at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Flamingos in Wisconsin? Tropical birds visit Lake Michigan beach in a first for the northern state
By The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) – Five flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing far from their usual tropical setting. The American flamingos spotted Friday in Port Washington, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Milwaukee, marked ... Read More »
1 responseRussian foreign minister lambastes the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech
By Edith M. Lederer And Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
United Nations (AP) – Russia’s top diplomat lashed out at the U.S. and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international order, but he didn’t discuss his country’s war in Ukraine in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. “The U.S. and its subordinate Western collective are continuing to fuel conflicts which ... Read More »
1 responseA black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
By Juan A. Lozano, The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) – The family of a Black high school student in Texas on Saturday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over his ongoing suspension by his school district for his hairstyle. Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been serving ... Read More »
1 responseA black student’s family sues Texas’ governor and AG over suspension for his hairstyle
By Juan A. Lozano, The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) – The family of a Black high school student in Texas on Saturday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over his ongoing suspension by his school district for his hairstyle. Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been serving ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tropical Storm Ophelia moves inland over North Carolina as coastal areas lashed with wind and rain
By Sarah Brumfield And Brian Witte, The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Tropical Storm Ophelia swirled across North Carolina after making landfall near Emerald Isle early Saturday, lashing eastern parts of the state with rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges of water. The storm came ashore with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph (110 kph) at around 6:15 a.m. and was expected to weaken ... Read More »
1 responseTropical Storm Ophelia moving inland over North Carolina as coastal areas lashed with wind and rain
By Sarah Brumfield And Brian Witte, The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Tropical Storm Ophelia was moving inland across North Carolina early Saturday, lashing coastal areas with rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Life-threatening flooding was forecast for parts of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, but the system is expected to weaken after landfall. ... Read More »
1 responseTropical Storm Ophelia makes landfall in North Carolina as coastal areas lashed with heavy rain
By Sarah Brumfield And Brian Witte, The Associated Press on September 23rd, 2023
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, lashing coastal areas with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Radar, hurricane hunter aircraft and observers on the ground found that Ophelia’s center came ashore at around 6:15 a.m. near Emerald Isle ... Read More »
1 responseGold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption
By Jake Offenhartz, Eric Tucker And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on September 22nd, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Sen. Bob Menendez was charged Friday with secretly aiding the authoritarian government of Egypt and trying to thwart the criminal prosecution of a friend in exchange for gold bars and cash as prosecutors unsealed a corruption indictment Friday that accuses him of using his foreign affairs influence for personal gain. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic
By Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press on September 22nd, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants unfit for trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier has rendered him lastingly psychotic. The judge, Col. Matthew McCall, said the incompetency finding for Ramzi bin al-Shibh meant that ... Read More »
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