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Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally goes to space 60 years later

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963

What happened in the UK’s infected blood scandal? Inquiry report will be revealed on Monday

LONDON (AP) — The final report of the U.K.’s infected blood inquiry will be published Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest

Elon Musk launches Starlink satellite internet service in Indonesia, world’s largest archipelago

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. Wearing a green Batik shirt, Musk was greeted with a garland of flower petals at a community health clinic in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, where he

D’Anna Cotton wins 4 events as Cummings repeats as 2A girls track state champions

Cummings’ girls track & field team successfully defending its N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A state championship on Friday, and it wasn’t particularly close. The Cavaliers finished the day with 103 points, while second-place N.C. Science & Math finished with 40. Cummings record six first-place finishes on the day, and D’Anna Cotton accounted for four

Here to stay: Canes sign Brind’Amour to multi-year extension :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Joseph Ochoa, WRAL multiplatform producer, and Kacy Hintz, WRAL Sports reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour is staying in Raleigh. The Canes legend agreed to a multi-year contract extension with the team. Assistant coaches Jeff Daniels and Tim Gleason, video coach Chris Huffine and goaltending coach Paul Schonfelder have also

Boys tennis dual-team state championship schedule set for Monday in Burlington

The matchups and schedule for the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys tennis dual-team championships are now set. Champions will be crowned on Monday at the Burlington Tennis Center. The 1A and 3A championships will start at 9 a.m., with the 2A and 4A championships starting at 12:30 p.m. The matches were moved from Saturday

The Senate filibuster is a hurdle to any national abortion bill. Democrats are campaigning on it

CHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, and she’s willing to back that up by pledging to change the Senate filibuster rules if Democrats retain control of the chamber. The

‘How do you get hypothermia in a prison?’ Records show hospitalizations among Virginia inmates

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video

Ohio voters approved reproductive rights. Will the state’s near-ban on abortion stand?

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A county judge could rule as early as Monday on Ohio’s law banning virtually all abortions, a decision that will take into consideration the decision by voters to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. The 2019 law under consideration by Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins bans most abortions

Botanists are scouring the US-Mexico border to document a forgotten ecosystem split by a giant wall

JACUMÉ, México (AP) — Near the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp “chi-ca-go,” a sound the birds use to signal they are separated from a mate or group. Then silence. A quail on the Mexican side called back, triggering a back-and-forth