By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers in California traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office earlier this month has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge. Thirty-five-year-old Shant Michael Soghomonian was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of maliciously damaging or attempting to damage and destroy by fire a
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council charged with selecting a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti is demanding that its members be sworn in at the National Palace, raising concerns about their safety. Gangs control most of the territory that surrounds the palace. Every day, bullets whiz past
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency Tuesday, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court. The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday 3-2 to ban measures known as
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials have released the name of the Idaho man who was killed last weekend after being identified as the suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy. The Ada County Coroner says Dennis Mulqueen, 65, of Boise, died of a gunshot wound early Sunday morning. Boise police say Mulqueen was
Continue ReadingBy Alex Glaze Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Patrick Cromwell, 59, was arrested early Sunday morning after allegedly telling police he used a meat cleaver to kill his roommate, according to police. Alex Glaze spoke with a neighbor who said Cromwell had made her and other residents uncomfortable for years.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuando la empresa de scooters eléctricos para la que trabajaba Matt Gialich tuvo que interrumpir la producción por escasez de platino, un componente clave del microprocesador que traduce las órdenes de los mandos al motor, se lanzó a la búsqueda de metales. Gialich, cuyo amor por el espacio le llevó de
Continue ReadingBy Rohan Mattu Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Four bodies have been recovered, over 1,300 tons of steel have been salvaged, and three temporary channels have opened four weeks after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The bridge collapsed after its support column was struck by
Continue ReadingBy Teri Hornstein Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — The Broward School Board will discuss the rollout of walk-through metal detectors across the district during a meeting on Tuesday. The safety initiative will begin as a pilot program at two schools over the summer and then steadily scale up
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Unlike recent years when there was an LGBTQ+ ally in the Louisiana governor’s office, nothing stands in the way this year of legislation hostile to transgender people. Democratic former Gov. John Bel Edwards was able to block most such legislation in previous years through vetoes.
Continue ReadingNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former MIT researcher has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the killing of a Yale University graduate student in Connecticut. Qinxuan Pan apologized for his actions Tuesday during a hearing in a New Haven courtroom packed with family and friends of the victim, Kevin Jiang. Pan pleaded
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Officials at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have unveiled a new security baggage system and a dedicated baggage handling area ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The new equipment includes a revamped scanner system to allow a more detailed scan of passengers’ baggage, so that travelers won’t have to remove items
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Tuesday about the risks of counterfeit or mishandled Botox injections after dangerous fake versions of the product have been found in several states. The CDC, the US Food and Drug Administration and state and local officials are working
Continue ReadingBy Elyssa Kaufman, Aida Mogos Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A local healthcare system is offering suicide prevention courses throughout the Chicago area. Franciscan Health, which has hospitals in Northwest Indiana and Chicago’s south suburbs, is offering free Question, Persuade, Refer Suicide Prevention Courses in April and May. The courses
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jonathan A. Greenblatt (CNN) — On Sunday, I went to Columbia University just uptown from my office to see for myself what is happening there. As I approached the gates of the university, I saw a seething protest. Drums and chants rang down Amsterdam Avenue. Crowds on both sides of the fence egged each other
Continue ReadingMcRAE-HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say someone fishing with a magnet in a Georgia creek pulled up new evidence in a nine-year-old murder case. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the citizen’s magnet fishing in rural Telfair County turned up a .22-caliber rifle and a bag containing driver’s licenses and credit cards that belonged to
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Karen, una avestruz de cinco años que vivía en el zoológico de Topeka en Kansas, murió después de tragarse un juego de llaves que le arrebató a un miembro del personal, según funcionarios del zoológico. La simpática ave “sucumbió trágicamente a las complicaciones derivadas del consumo de un objeto
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Millions of salaried workers will soon qualify for overtime pay under a final rule released by the US Department of Labor on Tuesday. The new rule raises the salary threshold under which salaried employees are eligible for overtime in two stages. The threshold will increase to the equivalent of
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How sexy can a qualifying tennis tournament in New Rochelle, New York, be? When the on-court drama involves Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the answer turns out to be quite a bit more than your average USTA singles match in Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.” The
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas says his client’s accounts of the killing are fiction. Attorney Carl Arnold told reporters outside a courtroom on Tuesday that his client, Duane “Keffe
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