By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest X-ray observatory is circling the world after launching from Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX launched the spacecraft early Thursday on its $188 million mission to shed light on exploded stars, black holes and other violent high-energy events unfolding in the universe. It’s actually
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By Jim Dolan Click here for updates on this story MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) — A movement is growing in the Catholic Church to transform the late Dorothy Day, into a saint. Steeped in ceremony and tradition and held Wednesday in the gothic splendor of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a local girl, a one-time atheist, a
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s independent vaccination advisory panel says it is recommending COVID-19 shots for children aged 5 to 11 with pre-existing conditions or who are in close contact to vulnerable people. The expert panel also said Thursday that young kids without pre-existing conditions can be vaccinated if there is an “individual desire” to do
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The Associated Press Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street Thursday as investors tapped on the brakes after three days of gains. The S&P 500 index slipped 0.2% in the early going, and the Nasdaq gave up 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3%. The modest pullback came after investors pushed the S&P
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police arrested a congressional staffer on Thursday after he walked into a legislative building with a gun in his bag. The incident led to a brief lockdown in a Capitol Hill complex that’s still on edge nearly a year after a deadly insurrection. Police say
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Cuando los científicos sudafricanos anunciaron que detectaron una nueva variante del nuevo coronavirus con un número preocupantemente alto de mutaciones, fueron aplaudidos por la rapidez con que pudieron detectarlo, gracias a la secuenciación genómica. El país fue elogiado por tener un programa robusto de secuenciación genómica, que le permitió identificar
Continue Reading By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Six unmanned Saildrones are heading out on a six-month voyage to face some of Earth’s most hostile ocean conditions, in hopes of improving climate change and weather forecast computer models. They will be collecting data within the Gulf Stream through the winter months in hopes of learning more about carbon
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Ten people have been indicted in an ID theft conspiracy that included United States Postal Service mail carriers and netted more than $750,000, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced Wednesday. The alleged crimes were committed between January 2017 and August
Continue Reading By Web staff Click here for updates on this story CONNECTICUT (WFSB) — A Connecticut woman’s Facebook post announcing her son’s miracle birth and her husband’s passing is going viral. Haley Parke shared the story of her son’s birth, delivering three weeks early, over the weekend on Facebook. Within the same post, she announced her
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has opened the first White House Summit for Democracy by sounding an alarm about a global slide for democratic institutions. He’s calling for world leaders to “lock arms” and demonstrate that democracies can deliver. In making the case for action Thursday
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — “Estoy cabreado”, dijo un furioso Xavi a los periodistas tras la derrota del Barcelona por 3-0 ante el Bayern Múnich en la Champions League. “Esta es nuestra realidad y estoy cabreado”. Esa nueva realidad es que el Barcelona se encuentra ahora en la Europa League, la segunda competición europea de
Continue Reading DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s energy ministry says Damascus will host an Arab energy conference in 2024. The announcement is the latest sign that Arab countries are moving to re-engage with the government of Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad. The statement followed a unanimous vote from members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Continue Reading DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s energy ministry says Damascus will host an Arab energy conference in 2024. The announcement is the latest sign that Arab countries are moving to re-engage with the government of Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad. The statement followed a unanimous vote from members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Maria Ressa, joint winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace prize says media worldwide should join forces in “fighting for facts” amid threats to press freedoms instead of competing with each other. Speaking at an Oslo press conference Thursday with fellow laureate Dmitry Muratov of Russia, Ressa, a Filipina, said that since
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man has been shot to death on a Kansas City street, and police there are now searching for a suspect in the killing. Police say in a news release that the shooting happened around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in an alley on the city’s east side. Officers who responded to
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York (CNN Business) — Las solicitudes semanales de subsidio de desempleo en Estados Unidos cayeron la semana pasada a un nuevo mínimo en varias décadas, según informó este jueves el Departamento de Trabajo. Con 184.000 solicitudes, ajustadas por los cambios estacionales, fue el nivel más bajo de solicitudes iniciales desde septiembre
Continue Reading By Web staff Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A relative of Milwaukee Common Council President Cavalier Johnson has been accused of a brutal attack at the Waukesha Public Library. Tuesday, Nov. 30, an 87-year-old woman told police she was robbed and had her car stolen while she stopped at
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By Marianne Garvey John Lennon died 41 years ago on Dec. 8 after being shot outside of his apartment building in New York City, Fans paid tribute to the late artist on social media. Lennon was 40 years old at the time of his death. Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, wrote, “Over 1.5 million people have
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By Rob Frehse A woman who was pulled from a car submerged in rushing water near the brink of Niagara Falls has died, New York State Park Police said Wednesday. The unnamed local woman in her 60s was pulled from the car by a rescue swimmer dangling from a US Coast Guard helicopter about 50
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in 52 years, more evidence that the U.S. job market is recovering from last year’s coronavirus recession. Unemployment claims dropped by 43,000 to 184,000 last week, the lowest since September 1968,
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