By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest stretch yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service. The three U.S. astronauts and one German in the capsule were bobbing off the Florida coast, near Tampa, less than 24…
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By ELENA BECATOROS and JON GAMBRELL ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A new international effort raced Friday to rescue more civilians from the tunnels under a besieged steel plant in Mariupol and the city at large, even as fighters holed up at the sprawling complex made their last stand to prevent Moscow’s complete takeover of the…
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Q. Hi Honk: At Fairview Road and South Coast Drive on the edge of Costa Mesa there was a temporary no U-turn sign in the median. The sign was posted by OC 405 Partners. There is a permanent sign allowing a U-turn posted by the city on the traffic-light post; it wasn’t covered at the…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is set to advance plans for the construction of 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, the interior minister said Friday. If approved, it would be the biggest advancement of settlement plans since the Biden administration took office. The White House is opposed to settlement growth because it further erodes…
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By AAMER MADHANI, NOMAAN MERCHANT and LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva before the strike that sank the warship, a high-profile embarrassment for Russia’s military, but the Pentagon denied Friday that it played a direct role in the…
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The delineation is lost on most. Erik Spoelstra continually stresses that Bam Adebayo can do it all. But the Miami Heat coach also emphasizes that his versatile center doesn’t have to do it all. So when the numbers don’t fill all the boxes, even when Adebayo’s contributions meet all the specific requirements, Spoelstra finds himself…
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By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher borrowing costs. Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed that last month’s hiring kept the unemployment rate at 3.6%,…
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Words possess a tremendous amount of power and carry the ability both to hurt and to heal. And sometimes, a single word can change everything. A student and an administrator at Cal State Fullerton got to experience this type of impactful change firsthand when they joined forces to revise the university’s use of the phrase…
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This week’s leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would unwind abortion rights has sparked concerns that popular federal protections for gay marriage, which rely on a similar interpretation of constitutional rights to privacy, might also soon be back up for debate. “I really think the challenges to gay marriage are next just in…
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It is not unusual during a road trip to see Chicago Cubs first base coach Mike Napoli at a table in the visitors clubhouse playing cribbage with a player. Veteran left-hander Wade Miley has been one of his toughest opponents while infielders Nico Hoerner and Nick Madrigal have started learning to play. Napoli views card…
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