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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.

 
Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities investigating the deaths of Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife are waiting for the results of the autopsies, and carbon monoxide and toxicology testing to determine how they died. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, apparently had been dead for days or even a couple of weeks when investigators found their bodies while searching the couple’s Santa Fe home on Wednesday. Investigators are trying to figure out the last time anyone saw or...

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Imprisoned Kurdish leader urges his PKK militant...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should hold a congress and decide to disband. “Convene your congress and make a decision. All groups must lay...

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SYN, one of Reston’s few rooftop lounges,...
SYN, a rooftop bar and lounge, opens this weekend at Reston Town Center.(Courtesy Donohoe Hospitality) SYN, a rooftop bar and lounge, opens this weekend at Reston Town Center.(Courtesy Donohoe Hospitality) The Reston skyline has changed dramatically over the last decade, but views from atop all those shiny new towers are largely reserved for the people who live and work in those residential and office high rises. On March 1, a rooftop bar and lounge called SYN opens to guests...

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UK’s Starmer will meet with Trump as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit the White House on Thursday to try to convince President Donald Trump that a lasting peace in Ukraine will endure only if Kyiv and European leaders are at the table as negotiations move forward with Moscow. Starmer’s trip, coming a few days after French President Emmanuel Macron’s own visit, reflects the mounting concern felt by much of Europe that Trump’s aggressive push to find an end to Russia’s war...

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Katy Perry and Gayle King will join...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Katy Perry and Gayle King are headed to space with Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and three other women. Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the all-female celebrity crew on Thursday. Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, picked the crew who will join her on a 10-minute spaceflight from West Texas, the company said. They will blast off sometime this spring aboard a New Shepard rocket. No launch date was given. Blue...

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Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV shows — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” — has died. She was 39. Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 8 a.m. at a 51-story luxury apartment tower in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood where officers found Trachtenberg “unconscious and unresponsive,” according to an NYPD statement. Paramedics...

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La Casa de los Famosos: Dos adversarios...
La Casa de los Famosos All-Stars continúa esta noche de miércoles explosiva y llena de drama, tras el mayor enfrentamiento vivido en alguna de las ediciones del reality. Varios habitantes, todos del cuarto Agua, estuvieron a punto de llegar a los golpes, que no ocurrió por la intervención de compañeros y compañeras que hicieron lo posible por separarlos en lo que ya parecía una batalla campal, entre insultos, amenazas y provocaciones. Además una negativa para acompañar al nuevo líder...

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British musicians release a silent album to...
LONDON (AP) — A new album called “Is This What We Want?” features a stellar list of more than 1,000 musicians — and the sound of silence. With contributions from British artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. The U.K. government is consulting on whether to let tech firms use copyrighted material to...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists. ESA has since lowered the odds to 0.001%. NASA had it down to...

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Waldo Wolff: “Ojalá Milei se saque de...
Waldo Wolff, ministro de Seguridad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, visitó este martes los estudios de CNN Radio Argentina para conversar sobre la relación con La Libertad Avanza, remarcó sus diferencias con Pilar Ramírez y Horacio Rodríguez Larreta y habló sobre las fugas de los detenidos en las comisarías porteñas. En diálogo con Nacho Girón y el equipo de La Mañana de CNN, Wolff se refirió a la presidente de La Libertad Avanza en la Ciudad de Buenos...

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Stock market today: Wall Street falls toward...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are heading for another drop on Tuesday following the latest signal that inflation, tariffs and other policies coming from Washington have U.S. consumers feeling more pessimistic about the economy. The S&P 500 was down 0.7% in morning trading. It’s coming off a three-day losing streak after setting an all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 78 points, or 0.2%, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq...

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Trump meets with French President Macron as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House for talks on Monday at a moment of deep uncertainty about the future of transatlantic relations, with Trump transforming American foreign policy and effectively tuning out European leadership as he looks to quickly end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The two leaders started their day by participating in a virtual meeting with fellow leaders of the Group of Seven economies to discuss the war. Trump...

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‘Conclave’ triumphs at SAG Awards and Timothée...
The papal thriller “Conclave” won best ensemble and Timothée Chalamet took best actor at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, a pair of twists that added a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season. In winning the guild’s top award, Edward Berger’s Vatican-set drama triumphed just as the Catholic Church was praying for the health of Pope Francis, who remained in critical condition Sunday after an asthmatic respiratory crisis. “Conclave” dramatizes the fictional election of...

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Jason Robertson’s hat trick powers Stars past...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Robertson’s third career hat trick lifted the Dallas Stars past the New York Islanders 4-3 on Sunday night for their third straight victory. Jake Oettinger finished with 35 saves and Sam Steel also scored for Dallas, which held on after a late charge by the Islanders. Jean-Gabriel Pageau appeared to tie it for New York in the closing minutes, but the referee ruled Pierre Engvall interfered with Oettinger and the goal was disallowed. Engvall,...

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Nursing injuries, Antetokounmpo and Lillard look like...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bucks stars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard were supposedly on minutes restrictions, but that wasn’t evident from the box score. Lillard scored 28 points in 38 minutes after missing Milwaukee’s previous game with a hamstring injury, and Antetokounmpo had 23 points and 16 rebounds in 32 minutes during Sunday’s 120-113 win over the Miami Heat. Antetokoumpo had missed five games before the All-Star break and sat out the All-Star festivities with a left calf strain. Coach...

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