REALITE, NC (AP) – Six months ago, Apple Pal and Google unveiled a new smartphone tool Designed to notify people who may be exposed to coronavirus, without disclosing any personal information. But for the most part, Americans are not interested in all that. U.S. Less than half of the states …
Read More »A bleak outlook for millions facing cutoff of US jobless aid
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Tina Morton recently faced a choice: Pay bills – or buy a birthday gift for a child? Derrisa Green is falling further behind on rent. Sylvia Soliz has had her electricity cut off. Unemployment has forced aching decisions on millions of Americans and their families in the …
Read More »Moon probe preparing to return rock samples to Earth
BEIJING (AP) – China on Thursday said its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed the inside of the spacecraft to return to Earth, the first such attempt by any country in more than 40 years. Chang 5, the third Chinese probe into landing …
Read More »The mystery object is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) – A mysterious object orbiting Earth temporarily is a 54-year-old rocket, not the next planet, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii have its identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The object was classified as an asteroid after its discovery …
Read More »Arizona’s Kelly sworn in in Senate, narrowing JOP’s edge
WAS SHINGTON (AP) – Arizona Democrat and former astronaut Mark Kelly was sworn in in the Senate Wednesday, narrowing the chamber’s Republican control and shifting his state from red to blue. , Kelly, 56, won the G.O.P. in last month’s election. Sen. Martha defeated Mascaly, leaving her to lose only …
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