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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record.But never before has a quick trip morphed into such a long haul.The pair launched last June on a test flight of Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule, figuring to be gone eight days. By the time they splashed down with SpaceX on Tuesday, they had spent 286 days off the planet — 36 times longer than anticipated.“If you look at it mathematically, by percentage of the original planned mission, this is…

The Trump administration has extended the deadline it gave New York City to end its congestion pricing program, the first of its kind in the nation, as New York officials vowed to keep the tolls on.The Federal Highway Administration initially instructed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to stop collecting tolls by this Friday to allow for an “orderly cessation.”Traffic moves along midtown Manhattan on February 19, 2025 in New York City.Alex Kent/Getty ImagesA day before that deadline, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced on social media that the Department of Transportation is granting New York a “30-day extension as discussions continue.””Know that…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the return of the IPL Fan Parks for the 2025 season, expanding the premier cricket viewing experience to 50 cities across 23 states and one union territory. “The 2025 edition of the IPL Fan Parks will span 10 weekends, starting on March 22 and concluding on May 25. From Tinsukia (Assam) in the northeast to Kochi (Kerala) in the south and from Amritsar (Punjab) in the north to Goa in the west, the Fan Parks will cover the length and breadth of India,” the BCCI said in a…

The Department of Government Efficiency approach’s to identifying fraud at the Social Security Administration “is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer,” a federal judge said Thursday, blocking DOGE’s unlimited access to sensitive agency data.In a 137-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote the Trump administration never justified the need to access the data — which they argued was vital to identifying alleged fraud — and likely violated multiple federal laws in doing so.”The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.…

Mumbai Indians (MI) pacer Jasprit Bumrah has returned to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s Centre of Excellence, formerly the National Cricket Academy (NCA). This comes days ahead of the start of MI’s opening match of IPL 2025, against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Sunday. According to a report in Cricbuzz, Bumrah is back at the new NCA for the second time in as many weeks to assess his fitness ahead of the upcoming IPL and to sought clearance to feature in the tournament.”After visiting the facility more than a week ago, the India and…

[THEME MUSIC FADES] What I read there at the top is a passage from Chapter 2 of the book, which captures part of what we’re going to cover in this episode.  In our book, we predicted how AI would be leveraged in the clinic. Some of those predictions, I felt, were slam dunks, for example, AI being used to listen to doctor-patient conversations and write clinical notes. There were already early products coming out in the world not using generative AI that were doing just that. But other predictions we made were bolder, for instance, on the use of generative…

Boxing will feature at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics after International Olympic Committee members voted unanimously for its inclusion on Thursday. The sport had passed a major hurdle when the IOC Executive Board on Monday recognised World Boxing as the federation to oversee the sport. It ends years of divisions over the way the sport — which has featured at every Olympic Games since 1904, except Stockholm in 1912 as it was barred under a Swedish law — is run. The IOC stepped in to organise the boxing tournaments at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and the Paris…

Democrats are settling into the year with some of their strongest February grassroots fundraising numbers on record, according to the Democratic National Committee, which says it brought in $9 million during the critical first full month of Donald Trump’s presidency with an average donation of less than $35.In a memo obtained exclusively by ABC News, the DNC says the haul was from more than 200,000 grassroots donors across all 50 states. They attribute the gains, in part, to the fact that “Americans are ready to stand up and fight back against the Trump administration’s overwhelmingly unpopular agenda.” In February 2016,…

Home » AIRLINE NEWS » Airline News of US » Southwest Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Reno-Tahoe Airport After Laptop Battery Ignites on Flight from Las Vegas with Over Hundred Passengers: New Updates You Need to Know Friday, March 21, 2025On March 19, 2025, Southwest Airlines Flight 3077, operating a Boeing 737-800, was forced into an emergency landing at Reno-Tahoe International Airport following a fire caused by a laptop battery onboard. The flight, departing from Las Vegas, touched down safely at approximately 10:05 p.m. local time after the crew reported the fire in the cabin.Upon arrival, the flight crew…

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday his office has tools including suspending officials from office to compel local governments to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in assisting in detentions and deportations.The governor’s remarks came just two days after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier warned city officials in Fort Myers that their failure to approve an immigration agreement with federal authorities could have serious consequences.“If these local governments are not being part of the solution, we’ve got a lot of tools, including suspension from office, that we can do now,” DeSantis said at a forum on immigration at…