By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? It’s already a complicated …
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A little US city, battered by the virus, tells its stories
By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest on dozens of metal f…
Cosmic 2-for-1: Total lunar eclipse combines with supermoon
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincides with a supermoon this week for quite a cosmic show. This super “blood” moo…
AP: Top cop in Black man’s deadly arrest withheld cam video
By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer…
EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion
By RAF CASERT, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union agreed Monday to impose sanctions on Belarus, including banning its airlines from using the …
Watchdog: US forced deported parents to leave kids behind
By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the U.S. wit…
As deadlines slip, Biden agenda faces crucial assessment
By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is hitting roadblocks. A policing overhaul after the killing of George Floyd is up in t…
Nonpartisan budget report says future nuke costs are rising
By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The projected cost of modernizing the U.S. nuclear force is escalating, including billions of dollars more to operate nuclear-armed submar…
Black man’s death in Mississippi: Lynching or suicide?
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America SCOTT COUNTY, Miss. (AP) — On the night of Feb. 8, 2018, Willie Andrew Jones Jr. and Alexis Rankin argued in the car on the way to her parents…
Tennessee moves to the forefront with anti-transgender laws
By JONATHAN MATTISE, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Conservative lawmakers nationwide introduced a flurry of anti-LGBTQ bills this year, but no state&…