By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts have ventured out on a spacewalk to prep the International Space Station for a new parking spot. NASA’s Shane Kimbrough (KIM-broh) and France’s Thomas Pesquet (pes-KAY) floated out the hatch Friday morning. Their main job 250 miles up involves […]
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The Associated Press DUJIANGYAN, China — American-born giant panda Bao Bao made her first appearance Friday before the public in southwestern China following her move there from Washington, D.C. Bao Bao was born at the National Zoo in Washington to pandas on loan from China. Under the standard loan agreement, […]
The Associated Press BOSTON — A diary kept by a young John F. Kennedy during his brief stint as a journalist after World War II is being auctioned. The diary was written in 1945 when the 28-year-old Kennedy was a correspondent for Hearst newspapers, rubbing shoulders with the powerful and […]
The Associated PressJill Lawless LONDON–Lawmakers and lords, researchers and reporters, cleaners and catering staff returned to Britain’s Parliament today as Britain’s seat of government shook off its shock and got back to work after an attack that left two civilians and a policeman dead. The Parliament complex is not just […]
The Associated PressMatt Sedensky NEW YORK–Feel down about getting older? Wish your life was better? Worried about all the problems that come with age? A new survey suggests you need only wait. Many pessimistic feelings held by people earlier in life take an optimistic turn as they move toward old […]
The Associated Press PITTSFIELD, Mass.–Some juvenile offenders in Massachusetts are offered a choice straight out of “Hamlet”: to act or not to act. Shakespeare & Company, a theatre company in Lenox, works with the courts to get youngsters who run afoul of the law sentenced to perform works of Shakespeare […]
By Julie Pace And Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Private communications of Donald Trump and his presidential transition team may have been scooped up by American intelligence officials monitoring other targets and improperly distributed throughout spy agencies, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said Wednesday an extraordinary […]
By Eric Talmadge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — North Korea has a criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump he probably wasn’t expecting: He’s too much like Barack Obama. North Korea’s state media, which regularly vilified Obama in the strongest terms, had been slow to do the same with the Trump […]
By Frank Griffiths And Gregory Katz The Associated Press LONDON — British police raided several properties and arrested seven people in connection with the attack outside Parliament that left four dead, including the man who mowed down pedestrians on a bridge and fatally stabbed an officer, a senior police official […]
By Kevin McGill And Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A judge presided, and the beaming couple embraced teary-eyed well-wishers when it was over. It wasn’t a wedding, but it brought Viet Anh Vo and Heather Pham a bit closer to marriage. Vo is 32. He’s been a […]
By Matt Sedensky The Associated Press NEW YORK — Feel down about getting older? Wish your life was better? Worried about all the problems that come with age? A new survey suggests you need only wait: Many pessimistic feelings held by people earlier in life take an optimistic turn as […]
By Denise Lavoie The Associated Press PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Some juvenile offenders in Massachusetts are offered a choice straight out of “Hamlet”: to act or not to act. Shakespeare & Company, a theatre company in Lenox, works with the courts to get youngsters who run afoul of the law sentenced […]
