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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.

 
Belarus weather balloons force repeated closures of...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving thousands of people stranded. While the balloons are used to smuggle cigarettes into Lithuania, officials in Vilnius see their numbers and trajectories as deliberate acts of disruption orchestrated by Belarus, a close Russian ally, as Europe remains on high alert after drone intrusions into NATO’s airspace reached an unprecedented...

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Uno por uno, los atletas que a...
Telemundo presenta a partir de este martes 2 de diciembre la décima edición de Exatlón Estados Unidos, comenzando a las 7pm/6 Centro. Las arenas más feroces del planeta contarán con 20 contendientes, quienes formarán parte de los equipos Rojo y Azul, dispuestos a dejarlo todo por conquistar el codiciado título y un gran premio en efectivo de $200,000 para un hombre y una mujer al final de la competencia. Esta histórica temporada promete emociones intensas y desafíos sin precedentes en...

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‘One Battle After Another’ and Jafar Panahi...
NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was crowned best feature film and the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards Monday at the 35th annual Gotham Awards, a starry kickoff to the film industry’s awards season. The Gothams, presented by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, aren’t considered an Oscar bellwether. But the black-tie affair, held at Cipriani Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, is known for celebrating smaller films while also dishing out...

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Flurries, sleet possible as wintry weather kicks...
Some flurries could be headed to the D.C. area Monday as cold and windy weather moves in overnight. More stories Winter storms bring snow, freezing rain and cold as Thanksgiving travelers journey home Eyes to the Skies for December: Full cold supermoon, Geminids meteor shower steal the show Colder weather is coming. Here’s how to prep your home for it It’s already a wintry day with afternoon wind chills in the 30s. And Monday night into Tuesday could bring some...

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US stocks drift lower and threaten to...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are giving back some of last week’s rally on Monday, as bitcoin and other former stars of Wall Street fall again. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% and was threatening to break a five-day winning streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 204 points, or 0.4%, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% lower. Last week’s rally was largely due to strengthening hopes that the Federal Reserve will...

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The Latest: Lawmakers urge congressional reviews of...
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have opened investigations supported by lawmakers from both parties into U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. They cited a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for surviving crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack. The lawmakers said that if true, the allegations first reported by The Washington Post last week pose...

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Struggling Raiders offense looks largely the same...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The offense for the Las Vegas Raiders looked marginally better in the team’s first game since Chip Kelly was fired. And the unit still finished with less than 200 yards for the third time this season. The end result was a 31-14 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. The Raiders finished with 156 yards of total offense and averaged 3.4 yards per play under interim offensive coordinator Greg Olson, with nearly all of that coming...

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Super Bowl 2026: Pregame performers will include...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Super Bowl pregame show will open with a trio of standout performers in Northern California: Charlie Puth will hit the stage to sing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile will take on “America the Beautiful” and Coco Jones will sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The performances will take place Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, before the NFL’s championship matchup and halftime show featuring Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, the league...

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Today in Sports – Wayne Gretzky is...
Dec. 1 1936 — End Larry Kelley of Yale is named the Heisman Trophy winner. 1951 — Arnold “Showboat” Boykin of Mississippi scores seven touchdowns in a 49-7 rout of Mississippi State. 1956 — The United States beats the Soviet Union 89-55 to win the gold medal in men’s basketball at the Melbourne Olympics. Bob Jeangerard (16), K.C. Jones (15), Jim Walsh (14) and Bill Russell (13) each score double-digits. 1959 — Louisiana State halfback Billy Cannon is named...

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Messi’s Inter Miami advances to MLS Cup...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi will play for another trophy. Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets clearly aren’t ready to begin their retirements, either. Tadeo Allande scored three goals — Alba and Busquets, a pair of longtime Messi teammates who will retire when this season ends, had the assists on his first two — and Inter Miami topped New York City FC 5-1 on Saturday night for the Eastern Conference title and a berth in the MLS Cup...

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Airlines adopt software fix for Airbus A320...
Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial aircraft after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month. Airbus said Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls on the A320 family of aircraft. The European Union Aviation...

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Quiénes son los integrantes de la Guardia...
En medio de la celebración del Día de Acción de Gracias, Estados Unidos recibió una noticia devastadora: la soldado de las Fuerzas Armas Sarah Beckstrom, de tan solo 20 años, falleció tras luchar contra las heridas de bala que recibió durante el tiroteo del miércoles en Washington mientras estaba en servicio. Beckstrom, integrante de la Guardia Nacional de Virginia Occidental, se había ofrecido como voluntaria para proteger la capital de Estados Unidos, permitiendo que otros compañeros estuvieran en casa...

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Top-ranked Ohio State’s rebuilt defense depends on...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State won the national championship last season with the nation’s No. 1 defense. It was full of talented players, but arguably the most important was Caleb Downs, a sophomore safety whose versatility gave then-defensive coordinator Jim Knowles lots of options for stopping opposing offenses and confusing their quarterbacks. Lining up deep on one play and in the box on the next, he kept opponents guessing about what he was doing on a given snap...

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Top-ranked Ohio State’s rebuilt defense depends on...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State won the national championship last season with the nation’s No. 1 defense. It was full of talented players, but arguably the most important was Caleb Downs, a sophomore safety whose versatility gave then-defensive coordinator Jim Knowles lots of options for stopping opposing offenses and confusing their quarterbacks. Lining up deep on one play and in the box on the next, he kept opponents guessing about what he was doing on a given snap...

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Top-ranked Ohio State’s rebuilt defense depends on...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State won the national championship last season with the nation’s No. 1 defense. It was full of talented players, but arguably the most important was Caleb Downs, a sophomore safety whose versatility gave then-defensive coordinator Jim Knowles lots of options for stopping opposing offenses and confusing their quarterbacks. Lining up deep on one play and in the box on the next, he kept opponents guessing about what he was doing on a given snap...

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