WASHINGTON (AP) — The Catholic Church in Oklahoma wants taxpayers to fund an online charter school that “is faithful to the teachings of Jesus…
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The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the “Six Triple Eight,” will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal. It follows a long-running campaign to recognize their efforts. At a ceremony scheduled Tuesday in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other lawmakers will present the medal to the family of the unit commander, Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was credited with addressing a mail crisis during its stint in England. The unit toiled around the clock, processing about 65,000 pieces of mail in each of three shifts, to ensure mail was delivered. Their effort boosted morale among American forces.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 50,000 Los Angeles county workers began a two-day strike Monday evening, closing libraries and disrupting adminis…
They’d watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the final U.S. Marines piled into a helicopter from the roof of the embassy to be whisked away. So when they heard the telltale squeak of the rubber sandals worn by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops from the stairway outside The Associated Press office, the reporters who had stayed behind were not surprised, and braced themselves for possible detention or arrest. But the journalists just kept reporting, and the improbable meeting became part of their iconic reporting on the fall of Saigon, 50 years ago.
Police say four people were killed when a car smashed through a building in Chatham, Illinois. Chatham Police Department's deputy chief says officers responded at about 3:20 p.m. to calls about a vehicle driving into a building during an after-school program. The vehicle hit three people outside the building, continued through the building and hit another person before exiting the other side. The driver, who was uninjured, was the sole occupant of the vehicle, and was taken to a hospital for evaluation. Chatham is a small town of about 15,000 people just outside Springfield, Illinois.
The Trump administration on Monday announced federal officials are launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review…
Amazon's first internet satellites are on their way to orbit. United Launch Alliance's Atlas rocket blasted off Monday from Florida. It's carrying 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites. It's the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX's Starlinks. Amazon launched two test satellites in 2023. These upgraded new ones are coated with mirror film to scatter reflecting sunlight in an attempt to accommodate astronomers. Stargazers oppose these fast-growing satellite constellations, saying it spoils their observations. Amazon aims to put more than 3,200 of these satellites into orbit to provide fast, affordable broadband service around the globe.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge follo…
A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a Kansas City, Missouri, paramedic as she was being taken to a hospital in an ambulance.
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LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A speedboat went airborne and did a complete backward flip while racing at about 200 mph (322kph) before crashi…