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More than three decades after making history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth. Selected from among 2,000 applicants to NASA’s astronaut training program in 1987, Jemison was part of the first group of astronauts chosen after the Challenger
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Cairo — Six tourists died on Thursday when a tourist submarine sank off the resort of Hurghada on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, the provincial governor said. The submarine was carrying 45 foreign tourists and five Egyptian crewmembers when it sank, Red Sea governor Maj. Gen. Amr Hanafi, said in a statement, adding that rescue teams
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The iconic Sundance Film Festival will be moving from Park City, Utah to Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027, the festival and the Colorado Governor’s Office announced on Thursday. The search for a new host city has been years in the making, with the festival announcing the search in 2023 and several cities, including Boulder, as
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Washington — Soon after the revelation that the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic had inadvertently been added to a Signal chat with top Trump administration officials about Yemen attack plans, some of those officials began changing or deleting their Venmo accounts. At least one account remained public for a day after the Atlantic report. Venmo, an
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit. Noem’s trip to the prison — where inmates
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Washington — Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, President Trump confirmed Thursday, with the president saying he’s asked her to remain in Congress. The president’s decision to pull her nomination ends two months of limbo for the New York Republican. “As we advance our America First Agenda, it is essential
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William Shatner, who made history in 2021 as the oldest person to travel to space at age 90, is offering candid advice to Blue Origin’s all-female crew preparing for their own journey beyond Earth’s atmosphere. “You’re on an adventure. You’ve got to embrace it,” Shatner said to Gayle King, who is part of the crew,
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Top Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee are sounding the alarm about cuts to a little-known but rapidly expanding space office within NOAA as part of the hundreds of recent layoffs at the agency. NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is tasked with helping to manage commercial and military satellite traffic in space
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The Trump administration plans to shrink the workforce of the Department of Health and Human Services by nearly a quarter, the officials announced Thursday, as part of a major restructuring of the department. The changes announced Thursday amount to a workforce that will be around 33% smaller than it was at the end of the Biden
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A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. Glenn H. Hodak, 23, was a member of the 93rd Bombardment Squadron in the 19th Bombardment group in
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