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Russia aborts space launch, holding 3 astronauts seconds before lift off

Russia aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station moments before they were scheduled to lift off Thursday, but the crew was safe, officials said. The Russian Soyuz rocket was to carry NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. The launch was aborted …

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Evan Gershkovich sister describes agonizing year as grim milestone of his imprisonment approaches

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich‘s family has endured an agonizing year as he remains detained by Russia in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison on dubious espionage allegations, his sister said Thursday. “I’m sure you can imagine this has been a really difficult year for his family. A lot of uncertainty and we just have to take it day by day,” Evan’s …

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Bears' Jaylon Johnson warns potential No. 1 pick Caleb Williams: 'You can’t bring that Hollywood stuff'

If Caleb Williams is selected by the Chicago Bears with the first overall pick next month, one of his new teammates has some words of advice. Jaylon Johnson, who just signed an extension to remain the team’s top cornerback, was on the “Up & Adams” show Thursday, where he told Williams to keep any “Hollywood stuff” away from Chicago. “You …

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Local fishermen slam Biden administration’s newly unveiled plans to industrialize Gulf of Maine

A group of fishing associations is sounding the alarm about new plans from the Biden administration to industrialize the Gulf of Maine by leasing two million acres of area for wind farm construction, a move that fishermen say will be detrimental to their business and marine life. Last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), an agency within the …

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Investigators probe suburban Pittsburgh housefire that killed man, 4 children

Investigators were searching Thursday for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing a man and four children and spreading to another house before the flames were extinguished. Firefighters arrived quickly but found the two-story house in Jeannette already engulfed. The man’s fiancée and two other children were rescued by a neighbor, police …

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Deaf lawmaker welcomed to German parliament in historic first

The German parliament on Thursday welcomed its first deaf lawmaker, who took her place in a moment that the house’s speaker described as historic. Heike Heubach, 44, narrowly missed out on a seat in parliament’s lower house, or Bundestag, in Germany’s 2021 election. But she joined the house this week as the replacement for Uli Grötsch, a fellow member of …

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Clinton National Airport executive shot by ATF agents during raid at Arkansas home has died, brother says

The Arkansas airport executive director who was shot by federal agents during a raid at his home this week has died from his injuries, his brother said Thursday. Bryan Malinowski, 53, died two days after a gunfire exchange with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) at his Little Rock residence. He was pronounced dead Thursday, …

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Pro-Palestinian protest breaks out inside Senate office building, interrupts interview with cease-fire chants

Over a dozen pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested at the Russell Senate Office Building on Thursday afternoon. The pro-Palestine demonstrators were heard repeatedly chanting, “We call for a permanent cease-fire,” in the rotunda of the government building, which is connected to the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. In one video, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was seen attempting to go on-air …

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