A Rocket Lab Electron booster blasted off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Thursday evening, boosting a pair of commercial radar imaging satellites into orbit that are capable of “seeing” through clouds, in daylight or darkness, to monitor the planet below. Making Rocket Lab’s 34th flight, the Electron’s nine Rutherford first-stage engines thundered to life at 6:38…
Aly and AJ Michalka — also known as Aly & AJ — are out with a fresh sound on their latest album, “With Love From.” The sisters used an echo chamber to process the vocals, which signifies a shift for the former Disney stars as they explore a new musical territory. “It feels like a…
Washington — The Senate advanced a bill Thursday that would repeal the legal justifications used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003, nearly 20 years to the day since the U.S. began its “shock and awe” campaign to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. The bipartisan legislation would repeal the 2002 authorization for the use of military force,…
Virgin Orbit said Thursday it is pausing all operations amid reports the company is furloughing almost all its staff as part of a bid to seek a funding lifeline. The U.S.-based satellite launch company confirmed it’s putting all work on hold, but didn’t say how long the freeze would last. “Virgin Orbit is initiating a…
New York — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to a final tally released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In…
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A passenger jet last month was cleared by air traffic controllers to land on the same runway of a Sarasota, Florida, airport that a second plane had also been cleared to take off from, officials said Thursday, detailing another in a string of similar close calls at U.S. airports this year. According to the National…
All week, a parade of Biden administration officials has sought to drive home the message that taxpayers will not bear the financial burden of the government’s guarantee that all of the depositors at two failed banks — Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank — will have their funds available to them immediately. On Monday, President…
Poland said Thursday it plans to give Ukraine about a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill Kyiv’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes to defend itself against the Russian invasion. Warsaw will hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days,” President Andrzej Duda said,…