By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A NASA astronaut on her inaugural spaceflight and two cosmonauts launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft toward the International Space Station Friday, marking the first time Russia has launched astronauts to the orbiting outpost in nearly a year. The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — One American and two Russians made a quick trip Friday to the International Space aboard a Russian capsule. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked at the station three hours later. O’Hara will spend six months there
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political fate is in the hands of the state Senate, which will continue private deliberations in the Republican’s impeachment trial Saturday after ending Friday without taking a public vote on 16 articles of impeachment. The state Senate began deliberating just before noon Central time
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Like so many tennis fans around the world, Nathan Willett was captivated by Carlos Alcaraz’s five-set victory over Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final this summer. All the twists and turns, spectacular shots and impressive rallies. Only Willett was on the road with the Cold War
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un vuelo de United Airlines con destino a Roma regresó a Nueva Jersey poco después de la medianoche de este jueves “para solucionar una posible pérdida de presión en la cabina”, según un comunicado de la aerolínea. Los datos del sitio de seguimiento FlightAware muestran que el avión descendió rápidamente durante
Continue ReadingBy WEB STAFF Click here for updates on this story MARIETTA, Georgia (WANF) — A Cobb County School Board meeting was standing room only Thursday, as supporters and opponents of Cobb County Schools Superintendent Chris Ragsdale pleaded for change or staying the course. But much of the unrest at the meeting was stirred up because
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A major European tech regulator has ordered TikTok to pay a €345 million ($368 million) fine after ruling that the app failed to do enough to protect children. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which oversees TikTok’s activities in the European Union, said Friday that the company had violated the
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland Click here for updates on this story WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — A thirst for knowledge lead a woman in her late 70s to head back to college. Barbara Mahler is living proof, you’re never to old to stop learning! 79 years young, Post University’s newest graduate stepped onto campus for the very
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza El colombiano Fernando Botero fue uno de los artistas plásticos colombianos más cotizados y con mayor resonancia a nivel internacional. Dejó un legado artístico a través de su vasta obra plástica compuesta por dibujos, esculturas y pinturas cuya característica común era el gran volumen, personajes más gruesos, robustos, gordos, en en una
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A judge has found an Iowa man guilty in the murder of a 10-year-old girl who was missing for eight months before her remains were found in a pond. Henry Earl Dinkins was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of Breasia Terrell. Her disappearance in July
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A jury has acquitted three men in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The scheme was portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the 2020 presidential election. William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were found not
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced new U.S. sanctions on “some of Iran’s more egregious human rights abusers” as he marks the anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. She died while being held by the country’s morality police. Amini had been detained for allegedly wearing her
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Three men were acquitted Friday on all charges against them in connection to allegations that they were involved in a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Eric Molitor, William Null and Michael Null were each acquitted on one count of providing material support for a terrorist
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Biden administration heralds the forthcoming release of five U.S. citizens detained by Iran, it’s also confronting questions about the price being paid to bring them home. The billions of dollars being unfrozen for Iran and the release of five prisoners charged in America are just
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — Students were dancing in the aisles and their seats in the Hampton University auditorium long before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage for the first stop of her fall college tour. Jaden Clemons and Layth Carpenter, both 18-year-old freshmen,
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press NAZLET EL-SHARIF, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian village is mourning dozens of its men killed in the horrific floodwaters that tore through the city of Derna in neighboring Libya. At least 74 bodies were brought back earlier this week and buried in the small farming community of Nazlet el-Sharif along
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The presidential campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will clash out in the open and behind closed doors on Friday as their fight for the future of the GOP intensifies. The two leading presidential candidates are expected in Washington, D.C., for a pair of
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — How do you feel when you read the same word many, many, many times? Do people have an equal number of hairs in both their nostrils? Does electrifying your tongue change the taste of the food you are eating? The scientists who researched these questions are among the
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — A collection of tombs from Korea’s ancient Gaya confederacy, a Viking age ring fortress in Denmark, an ancient Thai town and a 2,000-year-old earthworks in Ohio are among the contenders for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List this year. Following much deliberation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has heard evidence of alleged torture during the rule of late dictator Francisco Franco. Human rights groups say the case unfolding in a Madrid courthouse is the first of its kind to be accepted for legal review. The hearing on Friday involved allegations against five former police officers. The
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