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Former Florida Senator and veteran of spaceflight, Bill Nelson, has taken the helm at NASA. The space agency has the ball rolling on plans to return humans to the moon for the first time in a half century (including the first woman and the first person of color), private companies like SpaceX are working more
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden spoke over the phone with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead Republican negotiator on infrastructure legislation, for five minutes on Tuesday afternoon, as prospects appear to be dimming for a bipartisan agreement. The West Virginia Republican’s senator’s office confirmed the brief discussion but did not provide additional details about the call. Tuesday’s
Continue ReadingIn Atlanta’s well-to-do community of Buckhead, the debate over becoming an independent city has been brewing off and on for decades. Now, amid a spike in crime, calls to split from the capital have grown louder than ever. “We filed for divorce and our divorce is final,” said Bill White, chairman and CEO of the
Continue ReadingThe school is so old it’s seen not one but two global pandemics, plus a civil war. Now its superintendent is hoping new federal funding will bring it firmly into the 21st century. “Polk was the President when this building was erected and children began attending,” said Roger León, of the Lafayette Street Elementary School
Continue ReadingThe US Navy has denied a request by football team captain Cameron Kinley to delay his military service and try to play in the National Football League. Kinley, Navy’s 2021 class president who graduated last month, had signed with the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted rookie cornerback and attended the team’s
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A father is being remembered as a hero for helping to save his little girls from drowning. On a hot day like Sunday, the cool waters of Moore Lake just off Highway 65 in Fridley looked awfully welcoming. Leland Morris, 26, was with his 2-
Continue ReadingMove over, AMC and GameStop. Wendy’s is the latest hot stock with the WallStreetBets crowd. Shares of Wendy’s surged more than 25% in late afternoon trading Tuesday after Reddit investing communities started circulating bullish comments about the fast food chain, talking up the company’s irreverent social media feed and its “chicken tendies” that make it
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story APOLLO, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A mother was put behind bars after a welfare check led police to discover that a child was living under ‘deplorable’ conditions in a home in Kiski Township. Police say that a welfare check was being performed at a home along Flat Rock
Continue ReadingSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Health Minister Zweli Mkhize “on special leave” Tuesday pending an investigation into the awarding of Department of Health contracts to a communications company staffed by former aides. “This period of special leave will enable the Minister to attend to allegations and investigations concerning contracts between the Department of Health
Continue ReadingThe slow wind-up has characterized all three of Marvel’s Disney+ series, but the pacing feels particularly sluggish — and the endgame, pardon the expression, elusive — watching the first two episodes of “Loki.” Seeing Tom Hiddleston reprise his role as the suave Thor villain certainly has its charms, but thus far the god of mischief
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A local man is accused of hiding a camera in a floral arrangement to spy on a woman. Investigators say he was able to download and stream the video of the victim without her clothes on from that camera. North Huntingdon Police charged
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris has invited every female senator to the Naval Observatory for dinner next Tuesday, according to a Harris aide and Senate aide, in a show of bipartisanship among a deeply divided Congress. If everyone invited attends, the guest list would consist of 24 female senators — 16 Democrats and eight Republicans. It
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris pushed back on criticism that she hasn’t visited the US-Mexico border in an interview aired on Tuesday by arguing that her travel has been limited during the early days of the Biden administration. In an interview that took place in Guatemala during Harris’ first foreign trip since taking office, NBC’s Lester
Continue ReadingUS Capitol Police’s main intelligence unit “was aware of the potential for violence” ahead of the January 6 US Capitol attack but failed to share critical threat information with the department’s own officers and other law enforcement partners, a new Senate report says. Specifically, the report notes that the lead USCP intelligence division began gathering
Continue ReadingChris Harrison is not getting a rose from ABC. The show’s producer and distributor Warner Horizon and ABC Entertainment confirmed to CNN Tuesday in a joint statement that the longtime “Bachelor” franchise host is exiting the shows. “Chris Harrison is stepping aside as host of The Bachelor franchise,” the statement read. “We are thankful for
Continue ReadingHumans have explored the infinite abyss beyond Earth’s atmosphere for over half a century. When astronauts explore the vast expanse of outer space, they need to wear high-tech spacesuits to protect them from the frigid conditions of the cosmos. Hollywood movies have glamorized the iconic suit, its design leading the masses to believe it’s an
Continue ReadingAmerica is hiring like never before. Job openings in the United States soared by nearly a million in April, setting a record for the most openings added in a month and the highest overall number since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking the data in December 2000. At 9.3 million new positions, it was
Continue ReadingFor more than a year now, many of us have followed the standard drill: wash our hands, stay 6 feet apart, choose outdoor activities over indoors, and — most of all — wear a mask. Once vaccines were authorized for emergency use, the rules — as laid out in guidelines from the US Centers for
Continue ReadingNever-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden. The audio is of a July 2019 phone call between Giuliani, US diplomat Kurt Volker, and Andriy Yermak, a senior adviser to
Continue ReadingColonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount defended his decision to shut down his company’s operations and to pay a ransom last month to criminals who locked up its IT systems, telling lawmakers Tuesday his priority was to restore service as quickly as possible. The company did not have a dedicated ransomware response plan despite spending an
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