By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After a nearly 4 billion-mile round trip, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered NASA’s first asteroid sample to Earth. The capsule containing rocks and soil, collected from the asteroid Bennu, stuck a perfect landing in the Utah desert on September 24 after blazing through Earth’s atmosphere at blistering temperatures — enough
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Múltiples muertes fueron confirmadas este sábado tras un accidente que involucró a un camión que derramó amoníaco anhidro en el condado de Effingham, Illinois, dicen las autoridades. Partes de Teutopolis fueron evacuadas “debido a la columna de la fuga de amoníaco” después del accidente ocurrido en la noche del viernes en
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 59 graves found and seven sets of remains exhumed. Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck says excavation ended Friday with the exhumed remains taken to an onsite forensic laboratory. An
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN Northumberland County, Virginia (CNN) — Everyday when PJ Haynie wakes up, he prays to God for two things. “As farmers, we go out and as they say, we plant and pray,” Haynie said. “We plant a crop … we pray for rain; we pray for prices.” It’s a hot Saturday morning
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — It seems like everyone is hitting the picket lines these days. And this past week, for the first time ever, that included a sitting president of the United States. President Joe Biden’s unprecedented visit to the United Auto Workers picket line on Tuesday only brought more attention
Continue Reading By Benjamin Brown, Aren Melikyan and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — At least 100,000 people have now fled the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karbakh – more than four-fifths of the population – since Azerbaijan reclaimed the territory in a lightening offensive, authorities in neighboring Armenia said. The rapid exodus has prompted the United Nations to send
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ONONDAGA NATION TERRITORY (AP) — The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrunk their territory from a 2.5 million acre expanse in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse. They took their case to President George Washington, to Congress and,
Continue ReadingBy JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Dianne Feinstein once stood at the center of a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Decades later, in death, she’s being lauded by LGBTQ+ leaders as a longtime ally who, if she didn’t always initially do the right thing, was able to learn and evolve. Feinstein was president of the San
Continue ReadingBy JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Dianne Feinstein once stood at the center of a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Decades later, in death, she’s being lauded by LGBTQ+ leaders as a longtime ally who, if she didn’t always initially do the right thing, was able to learn and evolve. Feinstein was president of the San
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — An Iowa firefighter has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of arson after he allegedly set a series of fires and then later responded to them, authorities say. Kendall Rhoads, 60, was also charged with one count of reckless use of fire or explosives, according to the Grundy
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jill Duggar is not giving up on her relationship with her father. The pair have been estranged since she and her husband Derick Dillard distanced themselves from the TLC reality TV franchise that made her family famous beginning with “19 Kids and Counting.” (TLC is owned by CNN’s
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The last time the federal government shut down five years ago, Jesse Santiago found himself standing in line at his local food bank, rationing medication and falling behind on his mortgage payments, which ultimately cost him his home. Santiago, who has worked as a Transportation Security Administration officer at
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is returning to a new term to take up some familiar topics — guns and abortion — and concerns about ethics swirling around the justices. The year also will have a heavy focus on social media and how free speech protections apply online. A
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators. The Democrat’s first call was to Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who had worked with Feinstein almost as long as she had.
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators. The Democrat’s first call was to Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who had worked with Feinstein almost as long as she had.
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Hours before devastating fires scorched the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Kyle Ellison labored to save his rental house in Kula, a rural mountain town 24 miles away, from a different blaze. As high winds whipped burning trees and grass, Ellison and his landlord struggled with
Continue ReadingHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster reports that the collapse of a gold mine has killed six people, while 15 more are trapped underground. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said rescue operations are underway at the mine in the gold rich town of Chegutu, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the capital, Harare. Such
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down a likely government shutdown, the White House wants to make sure any blame falls at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue — specifically on House Republicans. After all, it’s House Republicans who have been paralyzed by their inability to pass a funding
Continue ReadingBy BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Growing up on the border between Mexico and the United States, Becky G spoke English, but sang corridos, boleros and mariachi in Spanish. All her life, she dreamed of an album that would honor her family’s roots and delve into those genres that she enjoys so
Continue ReadingBy BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Growing up on the border between Mexico and the United States, Becky G spoke English, but sang corridos, boleros and mariachi in Spanish. All her life, she dreamed of an album that would honor her family’s roots and delve into those genres that she enjoys so
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