The NASA astronaut who commanded the Apollo 9 mission and became the space agency’s program manager for 5 Apollo missions, has died.
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Amazon faces off with union in fight for a second warehouse
Last month, a federal labor official who presided over the hearings ruled against the company, which has noted it intends to appeal.
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Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’ Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.
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Stocks rally on Wall Street in latest volatile move
Stocks closed sharply higher on Wall Street, marking the latest about-face for a market that has been unsteadily lurching between gains and losses.
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Southwest Airlines chases small firms as business traffic recovers
Corporate air travel purchases are still down about 25% from 2019, according to ticket-data service ARC, a number that has stagnated.
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Kevin Spacey testifies about sex abuse claims: ‘Not true’
Spacey also described his dismay over a 2017 news report in which Anthony Rapp went public with his allegations.
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Biden kicks off student loan relief application season
The number of borrowers who applied during the testing period already amounts to more than one-fourth of the total number of applicants the administration had projected.
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U.S. businesses propose hiding trade data used to trace abuse
The proposal, if adopted, would shroud in secrecy customs data on ocean-going freight responsible for about half of the $2.7 trillion in goods entering the U.S. every year.
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Up to 20 arrested after striking truckers block Massachusetts food plant exits
Sysco, which has distribution facilities across the country, supplies food to schools, hospitals, nursing homes and restaurants.
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Waves of suicide drones strike Ukraine’s capital, killing at least 4
The concentrated use of the drones is the 2nd barrage in as many weeks – after months in which air attacks had become become a rarity in central Kyiv.