CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent spaceflight
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, Jessica Dean and Ali Zaslav, CNN For President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats, the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill was a chance to fulfill their longstanding dreams of expanding health care coverage. The proposed package includes broadening Medicare to provide dental, vision and hearing benefits, expanding Medicaid in the 12 states that
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Foran, CNN With a debt limit crisis averted for now, the Democratic Party’s effort to finalize a sweeping economic package to expand the social safety net will be front-and-center on Capitol Hill this week. Democrats must make a series of hard decisions over how much they are willing to spend on the
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press At least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol have chosen to defend themselves in court. In doing so, they’re brushing aside federal judges’ repeated warnings about the risks of trying to navigate their high-stakes cases without a lawyer. Self-representation is a bedrock
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press At least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol have chosen to defend themselves in court. In doing so, they’re brushing aside federal judges’ repeated warnings about the risks of trying to navigate their high-stakes cases without a lawyer. Self-representation is a bedrock
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Imperial Irrigation District announced all power has been restored in The City of Coachella following an outage early Sunday morning. A car crashed into a power pole accident was near Van Buren Street and Avenue 50, leaving some residents in Coachella without power. IID said as of 1:51 a.m., there were 121 customers still without
Continue Reading By Fernando Alfonso III, CNN One of the greatest sources of anxiety for Alaina Castillo has been the letter R. Rolling Rs is at the heart of learning Spanish and one of its most challenging trills, especially for those unexposed to the language regularly as a young child. This is a lesson the 21-year-old singer
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Cloudy weather has disrupted the dress rehearsal for the Beijing Winter Olympics flame-lighting ceremony at the birthplace of the ancient Games in Greece. And earlier Sunday, two protesters were detained on the Acropolis in Athens trying to raise a banner to draw attention to human-rights
Continue Reading VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is decrying recent deadly attacks in Norway, Afghanistan and Britain. Greeting the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, he cited the violence last week, which he noted claimed many lives. He expressed his closeness to the victims’ families and prayed that violence as a “way of life” be
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By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Cloudy weather has disrupted the dress rehearsal for the Beijing Winter Olympics flame-lighting ceremony at the birthplace of the ancient Games in Greece. And earlier Sunday, two protesters were detained on the Acropolis in Athens trying to raise a banner to draw attention to human-rights
Continue Reading PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is holding municipal elections, with the left-wing governing party aiming to capture the city hall in the capital, Pristina. About 1.9 million voters were casting ballots Sunday to elect mayors for 38 municipalities and some 1,000 town hall lawmakers. The main contest will be for Pristina. Voting in the north,
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Officials say there is no sign that a volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma is coming to an end, four weeks after it began. The volcano on one of the Canary Islands off northwest Africa has so far destroyed more than 1,800 buildings, mostly homes. Prompt evacuations have helped
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Stacker compiled a list of the most diverse counties in California using data from U.S. Census Bureau.
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flea had a funky birthday. So did the music school he co-founded that has become a Los Angeles institution. As the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist turned 59 on Saturday, his Silverlake Conservatory of Music turned 20. They celebrated with a joint party in the
Continue Reading By ARNO PEDRAM and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of people, including Algerian protesters and their descendants, are commemorating the 60th anniversary of a bloody police crackdown in Paris during the final year of Algeria’s independence war with its colonial power. A tribute march was organized in Paris to remember the Oct.
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call. The divorce is a precondition for his entry to the Holy Land. Zebulon Simentov, who fled Afghanistan last
Continue Reading Kelly McCleary, CNN A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed while playing with an iPad in his bedroom in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, police said. The boy was sitting in his room Friday evening when bullets fired at his home pierced through the window, striking him in the head, the Tuscaloosa Police Department said in a statement.
Continue Reading AL AMERAT, Oman (AP) — Co-host Oman has won the toss and elected to field in the T20 World Cup first-round Group B game against debutant Papua New Guinea on Sunday. Bangladesh and Scotland are the other two teams in the group and will play later Sunday. Group A comprises Ireland, Namibia, Sri Lanka and
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Casi dos décadas desde que se retiró el Concorde, el interés por los viajes supersónicos se ha acelerado y se desarrollan varios aviones ultrarápidos. Las aerolíneas parecen interesadas: United ya se ha comprometido a ofrecer rutas supersónicas a partir de 2029. Pero, ¿qué pasa con los viajes hipersónicos, que
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Venezuela no participará en la tercera ronda de diálogo con la Plataforma Unitaria -que integra a las fuerzas de oposición venezolanas- la cual estaba prevista a iniciar este domingo en la Ciudad de México, luego de la extradición de Alex Saab a Estados Unidos, informó este sábado
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