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NASA cancels its moon rover mission, citing cost overruns and launch delays
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is canceling a water-seeking moon rover because of cost overruns and launch delays. The space agency announced the news…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is canceling a water-seeking moon rover because of cost overruns and launch delays. The space agency announced the news…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A prominent aid group along the U.S.-Mexico border asked a Texas judge on Wednesday to push back on a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The “tuna bond” scandal that shook Mozambique’s economy is washing into a U.S. court. Former Mozambican…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The parent company of Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House and other chains says it’s buying the Tex-Mex chain…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has made it clear basically any which way you ask him: he’s definitely, assuredly,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The EPA’s internal watchdog will investigate why the agency didn’t get its specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts House and Senate negotiators have released a compromise version of a sweeping gun bill that supporters…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press With less overall entries due to the shortened TV season, this year’s Emmy nominations probably won’t spark any protest…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mother of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a San Francisco Bay Area recycling center over the…
Continue ReadingKali Reis was so taken aback by her historical Emmy nomination that she was almost at a loss for words. The “True Detective: Night Country” actor…
Continue ReadingAP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a relative rarity for presidential elections, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events,…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A New York City Council member has been charged with biting a police officer during a chaotic protest. Brooklyn Democrat Susan…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge has suspended the lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet basin…
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Cleanup crews are working to get Canada’s largest city back to normal after a torrential downpour. Flooding in and around Toronto…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez has shown no sign he will voluntarily resign from the Senate following his conviction on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys for an inmate who’s spent 25 years on Georgia’s death row are accusing a prosecutor of…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — State media in China say that a fire at a shopping mall has killed 16 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Zigong. The…
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Officials in Venezuela have arrested the head of security for the country’s top opposition leader, a little more than a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s border police says that migration through the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama has…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military-built pier to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza will be dismantled and brought home, ending a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada justice of the peace who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022 has been indicted on federal…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee elections officials say any state registered voters among the thousands recently asked to prove…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s armed forces have been deployed along the River Seine to make it safe, both in and out of the water during…
Continue ReadingNANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — The federal government has ordered an offshore wind developer off Nantucket Island to suspend operations after parts of a…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A meteor streaked over the New York City skyline before disintegrating over nearby New Jersey, according to NASA. William Cooke,…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian border police are looking for a truck driver who is shown on a widely circulated video whipping female migrants after he found…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A European aid worker who was arrested two months ago in Central African Republic over spying allegations…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nine crew members were rescued and another died as teams searched for others after an oil…
Continue ReadingAP Soccer Writer Lionel Messi is facing calls to apologize for racist chants made by Argentina players after they won the Copa America on Sunday. An…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Real Madrid says a Spanish court has given a suspended eight-month prison sentence to a person who racially insulted soccer stars…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French anti-terror police have detained an alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay. The…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to visit Serbia later this week to discuss a tentative deal with the…
Continue ReadingALTO, Ga. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies serving a warrant in another county have shot and killed two people in northeast Georgia on Tuesday. The…
Continue ReadingWOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Two men have been sentenced for their role in an armed standoff on a busy Massachusetts highway in 2021 that lasted more than…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — An foundation says a legendary French priest and a lifelong advocate of the homeless has been accused of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — The newest Coppola family property, The All-Movie, will soon host production…
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Leading opposition parties in Tunisia say politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for…
Continue ReadingBASS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Heavy rain overnight has helped firefighters gain more control over a forest fire burning at a military bombing range in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press There’s a lot to be said for the work/play energy of a nice studio or other small apartment during the day. But how do you…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, released from prison Wednesday, condemned the Biden…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have expanded visa-free travel for residents of 35 European countries, including…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — California Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the highest-profile Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen says the country is “in a quagmire” after chaotic legislative elections produced a…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The emergencies ministry in Belarus says six people died in a heavy weekend storm that swept through much of the country. Officials…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved legislation that would impose tougher penalties on people who break through airport perimeters.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — On the streets of Butler, Pennsylvania, in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new lawsuit says extending the six-year terms of Georgia’s elected public service commissioners violates…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia homicide detective accused of beating a murder suspect to obtain a confession and then lying about it in…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan summoned a senior Afghan diplomat to strongly protest a deadly militant attack that left eight soldiers dead in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish parliamentary commission has begun debating a contentious bill to manage the country’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Another wave of severe storms pummeled a wide swath of the United States and Canada, leading to flash…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Many farms, from buzzy vertical farming startups to traditional specialty crop growers, are marketing…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie armorer has asked a judge to dismiss her involuntary manslaughter conviction or convene a new trial…
Continue ReadingChronicle of Philanthropy In the early 1980s, soon after graduating from college, Roy Cockrum was trying to make it as an actor in New York. He was…
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government says South Korea’s KHNP has won a lucrative public tender to build at least two nuclear reactors in the Czech…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee issued a subpoena Wednesday to the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, three weeks after their last swap and as part of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A heat wave across southern Europe forced authorities in Greece to close the Acropolis Wednesday for several…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The new chair of Hong Kong’s leading media professional group says she lost her job at The Wall Street Journal…
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ defense minister says plans are in motion to build a major naval base on the east Mediterranean island nation’s…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 25 human rights groups are calling on the president of Uzbekistan to veto a proposed law that would allow…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARDWICK, Vt. (AP) — The longest rail trail in New England is open this summer for bike riders, hikers, horseback riders and…
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has rejected accusations regarding plots to assassinate former U.S. President Donald Trump, while citing legal action for…
Continue ReadingEdmunds If new car prices look daunting, don’t worry, there are plenty of affordable models to choose from that won’t break the bank. Edmunds…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Interpol has announced the outcome of a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims in Lebanon and Iraq are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a businessman of delivering electronic components to Russian firms associated with the production of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs says he’s running for lieutenant governor of California. Tubbs…
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Swedish police say the two bodies found in a burnt Danish-registered car in the city of Malmo during the weekend haven’t been…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean land mines could be swept into South Korea by swelling rivers, South Korea’s military…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s disciplinary hearing with the African National…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Federal transportation officials are providing $5 billion to replace or improve aging bridges in 16 states. The grants announced…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus while trying to shore up support among disenchanted…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday, with Tokyo’s benchmark dipping more than 2%, after Wall Street’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU general court says the European Commission did not allow the public enough access to information about…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Central Command says that the Islamic State group is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of attacks…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. held steady at the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% in June. The Office for National…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — In a year of major elections setting the course of many countries for years to come, China’s ruling Communist…
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer The head of upcoming climate negotiations is telling world leaders that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s sidelined Petroleum Minister, Jimmy Maladina, will appear in a Sydney court in March to fight a charge of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Initial autopsy results showed traces of cyanide in the blood of six Vietnamese and American guests at a luxury…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A final blast from The Mirage’s signature volcano marked the passage Wednesday of an aging Las Vegas resort…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine’s difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — On the floor of the Republican National Convention Tuesday evening, vice presidential candidate JD Vance greeted…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) — After three days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to killing former…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Labour Party government has set out its plans for “national renewal,” saying it will calm the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge’s stunning decision to dismiss the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — As the third day of the Republican National Convention kicks off, Republicans are shifting the focus to national…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It has been 10 years since the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police officers made…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has arrived at Britain’s Parliament to preside over the State Opening. The monarch wore…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — JD Vance introduced himself to a national audience Wednesday after being chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate,…
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