NASA’s new space telescope sees 1st starlight, takes selfie

NASA’s new space telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror. All 18 segments of the primary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope seem to be working properly 1 1/2 months into the mission, officials said Friday. The telescope’s first target was a bright star 258 […]

US, Japan, South Korea meet in Hawaii to discuss North Korea

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts Saturday in Hawaii to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests. Blinken said at a news conference after the meeting that North Korea was “in a phase of provocation” and […]

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4 shot outside LA party held after Justin Bieber’s concert

Four people were shot and wounded early Saturday after a fight broke out outside a Los Angeles restaurant hosting a party that followed a Justin Bieber concert, police said. The gunfire erupted outside The Nice Guy restaurant, striking and injuring four men ages 60, 22, 20, and 19, LAPD Officer Lizeth Lomeli said. Their names […]

Emerging deal would split $83M for condo collapse losses

A tentative deal announced Friday would pay $83 million to people who suffered economic losses such as condominium units and personal property in the collapse of a Florida building that killed 98 people. The emerging agreement, yet to be formally reduced to writing, would set aside whatever amount above the property settlement figure for those […]

Officials: Florida panther struck and killed by vehicle

An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, it’s the sixth panther death attributed to fatal collisions, out of six total deaths this year. FWC said that the remains of the 5-year-old male panther were found Tuesday along a rural road just […]

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Sheriff: Drunk bus driver drove Florida students home

A school bus driver is accused of being intoxicated when he drove dozens of students home from their Florida middle school, sheriff’s officials said. According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, a co-worker smelled alcohol on the 60-year-old bus driver when he arrived to work for his afternoon shift on Wednesday. The co-worker reported it […]

Baseball holds bargaining session as lockout continues

Baseball negotiations lasted for an hour Saturday when Major League Baseball made a new proposal that lawyers for locked-out players thought had only minor movement. Major League Baseball eliminated the penalty of a third-round amateur draft pick for exceeding the luxury tax threshold. Management maintained its plan to increase the threshold from $210 million to […]

Biden warns Putin of ‘severe costs’ of Ukraine invasion

President Joe Biden on Saturday again called on President Vladimir Putin to pull back more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s borders and warned that the U.S. and its allies would “respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if Russia invades, according to the White House. Biden and Putin spoke for more than […]