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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

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New this week: ‘Lost Daughter,’ NYE in...

December 24, 2021

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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature directing debut, “The Lost Daughter,” scintillatingly adapts the 2008 Elena Ferrante novel about maternal ambivalence and a holiday in Greece. The film, which begins streaming Friday on Netflix, stars Olivia Colman as a vacationing professor whose interactions with a boisterous, distracting clan (including a young mother in their midst played by Dakota Johnson),...

Por qué deberías cambiar tu mascarilla a...

December 24, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

(CNN) — A medida que la variante altamente contagiosa del coronavirus ómicron continúa propagándose, algunos expertos dicen que es hora de reconsiderar tus opciones de mascarilla, especialmente si todavía usas la variedad de tela. “Las máscaras de tela son poco más que decoraciones faciales. No hay lugar para ellas a la luz de ómicron”, dijo la Dra. Leana Wen, analista médica de CNN y profesora visitante de políticas y administración de la salud en la Escuela de Instituto Milken...

Days, No. 17 LSU move to 12-0...

December 23, 2021

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — No. 17 LSU’s perfect start had been fueled by its defense. The Tigers’ offense took center stage Wednesday night in their 95-60 romp over Lipscomb. LSU (12-0) shot 53% from the field, its highest mark in a month. The Tigers made 55% of their 3-points shots — their second-best outing from behind the 3-point line for the season. Even with top scorer Tari Eason unavailable due to back spasms, LSU registered its second highest...

Japanese space tourist says he would love...

December 22, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

MOSCOW (AP) — A Japanese space tourist said Wednesday that he felt his 12-day mission to the International Space Station was too short and he would love to stay a week more. Fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, his producer Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin blasted off to the station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 8 and returned to Earth on Monday. “It takes three or four days to adapt and then you realize that there are...

Wait, whom should we tip for the...

December 22, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

You’re likely planning to give some extra love to family and friends this time of year. But what about your dog walker or babysitter? If you haven’t already, consider showing appreciation for your service providers with a gift or bonus gratuity. After all, now is the time to “say ‘thank you’ and wish people well for the next year,” says Lizzie Post, who hosts the “Awesome Etiquette” podcast and is based in Burlington, Vermont. The kind sentiment around gifting...

China’s Xi endorses Hong Kong’s ‘patriots only’...

December 22, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday endorsed Hong Kong’s first legislative elections held under new laws ensuring that only “patriots” who have shown loyalty to Beijing could run as candidates. Sunday’s elections for the 90-seat Legislative Council were swept by politicians backed by China’s ruling Communist Party. Just 20 seats were directly elected, and the turnout of 30.2% was the lowest since the British handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997. All candidates were vetted...

Water worries in West force sports teams...

December 21, 2021

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DENVER (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks ripped out the grass at Chase Field ahead of the 2019 season, replacing it with synthetic grass. It was a business decision, but it also ended up being a water-conservation measure. The Phoenix-based major league baseball team thought it would save 2 million gallons a year. In the first season, the savings were closer to 4.5 million gallons, which is roughly the annual water usage of 49 households in the Phoenix area, according...

Baltimore County’s executive tests positive for COVID-19

December 21, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

In Maryland, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. tweeted Tuesday that he tested positive for COVID-19. Olszewski said the positive result came in a PCR test. As part of my regular testing regimen, I received a positive PCR test for COVID-19. I am both vaccinated and boosted. I’m asymptomatic and currently feel fine. This is a critical reminder of the challenges we all continue face amid the highly contagious Omicron variant. — County Executive Johnny Olszewski (@BaltCoExec) December 21,...

Review: ‘A Journal for Jordan’ is a...

December 21, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

Be sure to pack tissues before seeing “A Journal for Jordan” — and we don’t just mean to keep the omicron variant at bay. No, this Denzel Washington-directed love story may leave you sobbing as it explores duty, sacrifice, death and parenthood. Washington earns his audience’s tears with an unrushed, unshowy style, letting an adult and very human relationship evolve on camera, skipping back and forth through years as it goes from love, birth, death and acceptance. It’s the...

Efficient Northwestern rolls past Illinois-Springfield 90-50

December 21, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Peter Nance scored 15 points and Northwestern cruised past Division II Illinois-Springfield 90-50 on Monday night. Boo Buie and Ty Berry added 11 points each for the Wildcats (8-2), who won their sixth straight at home. Northwestern was sharp from the start, scoring the first eight points and building a 20-5 lead before UIS found any offensive consistency. The Wildcats led 47-29 at halftime after making 11 of 15 2-point attempts and shooting 57% overall...

NFL Today, Week 15

December 20, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

SCOREBOARD Monday, Dec. 20 Las Vegas at Cleveland, 5 p.m. EST. The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but was pushed to Monday night as a result of a spike in COVID-19 cases. The Browns (7-6) had 24 players, including quarterback Baker Mayfield and 11 other starters on the COVID-19 list after the virus swept through the team in recent days and threatened to derail Cleveland’s playoff hopes. The NFL’s decision to relax some testing policies could result in...

Cole Bassett’s late goal in debut sends...

December 19, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Cole Bassett scored in the 89th minute of his U.S. national team debut and the Americans set a record for victories in a calendar year with a 1-0 exhibition win over 10-man Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday night. Bassett, a 20-year-old midfielder for the Colorado Rapids, slammed home a rebound of a shot by 18-year-old Jonathan Gomez, the former Louisville City defender headed to Real Sociedad. Gomez had also just made his U.S. debut as...

SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites from California...

December 18, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California early Saturday. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from coastal Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:41 a.m. and arced over the Pacific. The Falcon’s first stage returned and landed on a SpaceX droneship in the ocean. It was the 11th launch and recovery of the stage. The second stage continued into orbit and deployment of the satellites was confirmed,...

Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz...

December 18, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

Eve Babitz, the Hollywood bard, muse and reveler who with warmth and candor chronicled the excesses of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers, has died. She was 78. Babitz biographer Lili Anolik confirmed that she died of complications from Huntington’s disease on Friday afternoon, at a Los Angeles hospital. Few writers captured a time and place so vividly as Babitz did. Her dispatches from the Troubadour night club...

Nonbelievers across Africa risk freedom and family...

December 18, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

Muhammad Mubarak Bala was held incommunicado in police custody for so long — eight months — that his wife was sure he was dead. “I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. The emotional torture was too much for me,” Amina Ahmed told The Associated Press from her home in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. More than a year passed before Bala, an ex-Muslim and president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, would be charged. Bala is an outspoken atheist in...

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