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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lengthy process of putting the retired space shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position will begin this month in Los Angeles. The California Science Center announced Thursday that the six-month process will get underway July 20 at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center currently under construction

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for a robust international force to help combat Haiti’s armed gangs and restore security in the impoverished Caribbean nation. He told reporters Thursday that a U.N. expert’s call for between 1,000 and 2,000 police officers trained to deal with

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a drug-related street feud that resulted in the kidnapping and slaying of a woman and the shooting of a 6-year-old boy. Forty-three-year-old Dion Oliver was sentenced Thursday to a mandatory life term

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from two weeks of monsoon rains rose to at least 55 on Thursday after at least 12 people, including eight children, died in weather-related incidents in Pakistan amid fears of flash floods, authorities said. The eastern city of Lahore witnessed a record-breaking downpour the

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill aimed to ensuring more federal laws apply to tribes in the state. The outcome on Thursday is a bitter blow to tribes that are bound by a land claims settlement that puts them on different

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed and five others injured battling a blaze that began deep inside a docked cargo ship carrying more than a thousand vehicles, officials said Thursday. Responding firefighters found five to seven vehicles already on fire when they reached the 10th floor of the cargo ship at Port Newark

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor attempted to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400 years by issuing a partial veto that angered his Republican critics and marks the latest creative use of the unique gubernatorial powers in the state. Wisconsin allows governors to alter certain legislation

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015 returned home the next day but he and his mother deceived officers by giving false names over the ensuing eight years, police said Thursday. Houston police detectives said prosecutors have declined to bring false

SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — A man has been charged with intentionally causing a fire five years ago which killed five people and displaced 200 others in San Marcos, Texas. Authorities say Jacobe De Leon O Shea Ferguson was arrested Wednesday. He’s charged with arson, and is accused of intentionally setting a blaze at the

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Threads, Meta’s text-based app seemingly built to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta’s photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries and millions signed up within its first hours. Threads, which Meta

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A conservative media outlet and an activist group won’t be allowed access to records related to President Joe Biden’s gift of his Senate papers to the University of Delaware. The state Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a judge’s ruling in favor of the university. Biden had

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press The company that owned a submersible that fatally imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic says it has suspended operations. OceanGate made the announcement on Thursday. The company based in Everett, Washington, owned the Titan submersible that is believed to have imploded as it made its

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When archaeologists first discovered the 5,000-year-old ornate tomb in Spain, they assumed it was for a man. It held a rock crystal dagger, ivory tusks and other lavish items. But now they’ve determined the remains are those of a woman, and all it took was two

By AAMER MADHANI and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to South Carolina to make the case that his economic agenda is helping keep even red states humming. Ahead of the Thursday visit, White House officials argued that if Republicans had their way, South Carolina — like many other

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, made a brief court appearance Thursday as he entered a not guilty plea to charges that he helped the former president hide classified documents from federal authorities. He also hired a new Florida-based lawyer to represent him as

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy plans to sign a bill giving a tax break to Danish offshore wind developer Orsted for the first of two energy projects it plans to place in the waters off the Jersey Shore. Before the ink is dry on that bill,

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A shadowy hacking group has taken responsibility for sending an email Wednesday to the University of Connecticut community that claimed the school’s president had died.  The hoax email, sent early in the morning, went to everyone on the school’s undergraduate listserv informing students of the “Unfortunate Passing of Radenka Maric.” A

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The courts are finally dry at Wimbledon and the sun is even shining through the clouds at times. That gives organizers hope of fitting in a full day of tennis for the first time at this year’s tournament. The first three days of action at