After a journey from Earth to lunar orbit that took nearly six weeks, India will try to land on the moon’s surface. With Chandrayaan-2, the country hopes to become the fourth in the world to complete a lunar landing, after the Soviet, American and Chinese space programs. Here’s what you need to know about the […]
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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees says he’s been unfairly and incorrectly portrayed as anti-gay after recording a video encouraging Christian students to take their bibles to school. The video was disseminated by an organization called Focus on the Family, which has promoted policies widely viewed as hostile to the LGBTQ community. Brees said Thursday
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WASHINGTON — Congress’s six-week summer recess comes to an end on Monday, and a growing number of House Republicans have sent a clear message: They would much rather stay home. More than a dozen Republicans of nearly every stripe — moderates and conservatives, relative newcomers and those with decades of seniority, two of the party’s
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The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week (Sept. 1-6) | HuffPost Life Part of HuffPost Parenting. ©2019 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So each week we round up the most hilarious 280-character quips from moms and dads to spread the
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Image caption BGirl Terra and BGirl Edie perform as part of the Soul Maverick Crew Two break dancing sisters will make history at the Royal Albert Hall later. BGirls Terra and Eddie, who have been dancing since the ages of two and three, will be the first siblings to show off their breaking skills as
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is launching a joint, multistate investigation into possible antitrust violations committed by Facebook, she announced Friday. The investigation will examine “Facebook’s dominance in the industry and the potential anti-competitive conduct stemming from that dominance,” her office said in a press release. It will include the attorneys general of Colorado,
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The Latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local): 11:10 a.m. North Carolina emergency officials remain worried about storm surge and flash flooding from Hurricane Dorian as it churns up the Atlantic coast. But preliminary damage reports from where the hurricane has departed are better than feared. Gov. Roy Cooper said Friday there’s “significant concern about
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Manager Bob Melvin is fond of saying the Athletics are at their best when hitting home runs and showing patience in the batter’s box. They’ve proved they’re pretty good when pinch-hitting, too. Pinch-hitter Robbie Grossman delivered a two-run triple over center fielder Mike Trout as part of a seven-run seventh inning when the A’s benefited
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House Democrats, furious over President Trump’s continued promotion of his branded properties for government business, said on Friday that they would scrutinize whether two recent cases would violate the Constitution’s ban on presidents profiting from domestic or foreign governments. Two chairmen acting in tandem sent letters to the White House, the Secret Service and the
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In a vacuum, the latest numbers on the job market are pretty solid, even good. Most important, while the overall unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent for August, there was real improvement in the details underneath that number: A whopping 571,000 more Americans were part of the labor force, and the share of adults
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