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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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Neil Young rebuilds a Rockies barn and...

December 9, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

A horse needs a barn. Neil Young didn’t rebuild a log barn from the 1850s that was falling into the ground in the Colorado Rockies just so he could make an album in it with Crazy Horse, his frequent collaborators for more than 50 years, but that was a big part of the inspiration. “We got some people to restore it back to the original greatness, with ponderosa pines, it’s just beautiful, just a beautiful building,” Young told The...

Review: Amanda Gorman offers the inventive ‘Lexicon...

December 8, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

Asserting that “our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation” in “The Hill We Climb,” inaugural poet Amanda Gorman urged the nation to account for its history to heal the future. This kinetic idealism now blooms in “Call Us What We Carry,” her new collection of poems, as she explores why. Alliterative insights and free-versed inquiry catalyze Gorman’s performative poetics on the page. Her third publication, Gorman’s scholarly sensibility illuminates her quest for social reparations...

Shopping for stargazers in 2021

December 7, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

It’s nearing the end of 2021, and COVID-19 is still with us, but we can still shop for Christmas and the holiday season. Once again, it’s that time of year to shop for your favorite stargazer. More Holiday News WTOP’s annual gifts for stargazers recommendations will help Santa provide goodies for those who spend time enjoying the stars and night sky. I have checked several major outlets — sales are ongoing and supplies appear to be plentiful. Monthly magazine...

ArtPlace America shows why culture matters to...

December 7, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

Sometime in the next few years, crews dispatched by the Environmental Protection Agency will roll into Ashland, Massachusetts, population 19,000, and begin a $20.5 million cleanup of groundwater contaminated by waste from a chemical dye plant. That day will mark a victory for the town, where cancer deaths have been linked to toxins from the factory, which operated from 1917 to 1978. Among those buried and mourned are teens and young adults who grew up playing in puddles and...

Could others be charged, liable in Michigan...

December 7, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

A prosecutor continues to criticize the decision to keep a teenager in a Michigan school before a shooting that killed four students last week, raising questions about whether staff and the school district will face liability — criminal or civil — in the tragedy. “We should all be looking at the events that led up to that horrific event,” Karen McDonald told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And as a community, as a school, as a nation talk about what...

Braun leads No. 8 Kansas past St....

December 4, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

NEW YORK (AP) — New building or old, Kansas looked right at home in the Big Apple again. Christian Braun had a career-high 31 points, Ochai Agbaji scored 23 and the No. 8 Jayhawks emphatically turned back a second-half charge to beat St. John’s 95-75 on Friday night in the first basketball game at UBS Arena. Senior forward David McCormack, off to a slow start this season, was a force inside with 15 points and 13 rebounds for the...

New this week: ‘Sex and the City,’...

December 3, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

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 — Fresh off his Oscar nomination Riz Ahmed teams up with “Beast” director Michael Pearce for “Encounter,” an alien invasion/family drama hitting Amazon Prime Video on Friday, Dec. 10. Ahmed plays an ex-Marine with a host of troubles that only compound when he suspects his ex-wife, with whom he shares two sons, may have been infected...

China’s Didi to leave US stock market...

December 3, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Global Inc. said Friday it will pull out of the New York Stock Exchange and shift its listing to Hong Kong as the ruling Communist Party tightens control over tech industries. Didi’s one-sentence announcement gave no explanation, but share prices of Didi and other tech companies including e-commerce giant Alibaba Group have sunk after they were hit by data-security and anti-monopoly crackdowns. Regulators said in July they would step up scrutiny of...

‘The fire that’s here’: US is still...

December 3, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant that is popping up around the country, the delta form of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., swamping hospitals with record numbers of patients in the Midwest and New England. “Omicron is a spark that’s on the horizon. Delta variant is the fire that’s here today,” said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the state Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Maine, where an unprecedented...

Ireland: UK-EU deal on Brexit trade spat...

December 2, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

LONDON (AP) — The British and Irish governments expressed optimism Thursday that a thorny spat between the U.K. and the European Union over Northern Ireland trade can be resolved, but Ireland’s top diplomat indicated that negotiations were likely to drag on into next year. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the talks over post-Brexit rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with an EU member, had not produced a “breakthrough moment.” But...

Alicia Keys teases new songs at small...

December 2, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

MIAMI (AP) — R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys guided a few hundred people at a small show in Miami through a 10-minute meditation before asking them to make some choices. Keys wanted concert goers gathering for an immersive exhibit on the eve of Art Basel Miami Beach to listen to her new material, and then pick either the relaxing piano versions the Grammy-winning artist is best known for, or the more-produced tracks with a different beat for the same songs....

US long-term mortgage rates relatively flat this...

December 2, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The average interest rate for long-term mortgages in the U.S. remained flat this week, following the Federal Reserve suggesting that it would start tightening credit by raising its benchmark rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year, fixed rate home loan ticked up slightly to 3.11% from last week’s 3.10%. One a year ago the rate was 2.71%. The red-hot U.S. housing market has been juiced by...

DC metro office leasing surpasses pre-pandemic levels...

December 1, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

The Washington region still has a huge office vacancy problem, but leasing activity has significantly picked up. Commercial real estate firm CBRE reports the D.C. metro is now one of the top U.S. office markets for showing improved demand for new office leasing. In October, leasing activity in the region was 2% above its pre-pandemic baseline. October was the first time the D.C. area surpassed pre-pandemic leasing levels, and leasing has made steady gains since April. More Business News...

Parton, Oh, Biles and teachers named ‘People...

December 1, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

NEW YORK (AP) — People magazine has named Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, actor Sandra Oh, country icon Dolly Parton and the nation’s teachers as its “2021 People of the Year.” “This year has been a transformative one, pushing us all to create something new and hopefully better for our lives,” the magazine said. “This issue reflects that spirt: Our People of the Year cover stars have all led the way in their fields to help make the world a...

Live updates: S. Korea confirms cases of...

December 1, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Wednesday confirmed its first five cases of the new omicron coronavirus variant in people linked to arrivals from Nigeria, prompting the government to tighten the country’s borders. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Wednesday the cases include a couple who arrived from Nigeria on Nov. 24 and a friend who drove them home from the airport. The two other cases were women who also traveled to Nigeria and returned to...

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