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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.

 
US-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong...
HONG KONG (AP) — The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said on Friday that its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening worries about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement that it will no longer have full-time staff in Hong Kong, although it would retain its official media registration. “Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a...

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Blind people can hear and feel April’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Sound and touch devices will be available at public gatherings on April 8, when a total solar eclipse crosses North America, the moon blotting out the sun for a few minutes. “Eclipses are very beautiful things, and everyone should be able to experience it once in their lifetime,” said Yuki Hatch, a...

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Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden...
NEW YORK (AP) — Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world teamed up Thursday night to deliver a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden that hauled in a record-setting $25 million for his reelection campaign. The mood at Radio City Music Hall was electric as Obama praised Biden’s willingness to look for common ground and said, “That’s the kind of president I want.” Clinton said simply of the choices facing voters in...

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World champion Rangers overcome disputed tip and...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jonah Heim hit a game-ending RBI single with two outs in the 10th inning as the World Series champion Texas Rangers opened the season with a 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night. Adolis García and Travis Jankowski homered for the Rangers, who unfurled the franchise’s first World Series championship banner from the rafters high above right field before the dramatic victory. Drew Smyly, the Cubs’ seventh pitcher, walked two to load the...

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Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to...
FILE – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court on July 26, 2023, in New York. The former crypto mogul faces the potential of decades in prison when he is sentenced Thursday, March 28, 2024, for his role in the 2022 collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for trading digital currency. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)(AP/Mary Altaffer) FILE – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court on July 26, 2023, in New York. The former...

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Why did more than 1,000 people die...
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college student, walked the grassy grounds of an interstate rest stop trying to shake the voices in his head. After Ware ran from an officer, he was attacked by a police dog,...

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The Latest | Hezbollah launches rockets into...
Israel’s deadly airstrike in southern Lebanon targeting a paramedic center linked to a Sunni Muslim group triggered a barrage of rockets Wednesday into northern Israel that was claimed by the militant group Hezbollah, killing at least one person. International mediators are scrambling to prevent an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah as the Israeli war in Gaza against Hamas grinds through its sixth month. The overnight Israeli strike killed seven people who were “waiting to respond to a rescue...

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Tiny, endangered fish hinders California’s Colorado River...
Southern California’s Imperial Irrigation District, which supplies water to farmers who grow most of the nation’s winter vegetables, planned to start a conservation program in April to scale back what it draws from the critical Colorado River. But a tiny, tough fish got in the way. Now, those plans won’t start until at least June so water and wildlife officials can devise a way to ensure the endangered desert pupfish and other species are protected, said Jamie Asbury, the...

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Opening day 2024: What to watch for...
Here’s what to watch for on MLB’s opening day: THE SHO GOES ON Ohtani already made his Dodgers debut last week in South Korea, but all eyes will still be on the two-way sensation as LA hosts the Cardinals. The $700 million star is trying to play on after the firing of his longtime interpreter and friend Ippei Mizuhara, who Ohtani said Monday stole money from him to pay off gambling debts. Mizuhara was fired while the Dodgers were...

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‘Diarra from Detroit,’ created by Diarra Kilpatrick,...
Diarra Kilpatrick recalls writing for NBC’s Debra Messing procedural “The Mysteries of Laura” when she got feedback from the network over wanting to have Messing’s character, a homicide detective with the NYPD, out on a date. “The network was like, ‘Do people hate her? There are still criminals at large.” And I remember thinking, ’What? She has to have something for her,” Kilpatrick said recently over Zoom. A date is now at the center of a new comedic mystery...

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Utah coach says team was shaken after...
Utah head coach Lynne Roberts speaks during a press conference after a second-round college basketball game against Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament in Spokane, Wash., Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)(AP/Young Kwak) Utah head coach Lynne Roberts speaks during a press conference after a second-round college basketball game against Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament in Spokane, Wash., Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)(AP/Young Kwak) SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a...

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Boeing CEO to exit in broad management...
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks briefly with reporters after a meeting in the office of Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Part of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet was grounded following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)(AP/J. Scott Applewhite) Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks briefly with reporters after a meeting in the office of Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., at the Capitol in Washington,...

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Poland demands explanation from Russia after a...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Poland demanded an explanation from Russia on Sunday after one of its missiles strayed briefly into Polish airspace during a major missile attack on Ukraine, prompting the NATO member to activate F-16 fighter jets. It was Russia’s third big missile attack on Ukraine in the past four days, and the second to target the capital, Kyiv. The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Serhiy Popko, said Russia used cruise missiles launched from Tu-95MS strategic bombers. An...

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$4.1M proposed settlement for students abused by...
Maryland state officials are set to vote early next month on a proposed $4.1 million settlement with two groups of individuals who were abused by a former University of Maryland Baltimore County swimming and diving coach. The proposed payment is part of the Board of Public Works agenda for April 3, which was posted Friday afternoon. The settlement request comes from UMBC and the Office of the Attorney General after a U.S. Department of Justice Title IX investigation revealed...

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Movie Review: A remake of ‘Road House’...
Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. While five tough guys circle him outside a bar looking to bash his skull in, he has a question for them: “Before we start, do you have insurance?” And after savagely beating each up, he kindly drives them to the hospital. Dalton — played by a muscular and languid Jake Gyllenhaal — is a former UFC fighter with a dark past in “Road House,” a reworking of the pulpy 1989...

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