Billionaire steps out of SpaceX capsule for first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth

Billionaire steps out of SpaceX capsule for first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A billionaire stepped out for the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavor hundreds of miles above Earth. Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew waited until their capsule was depressurized before popping open the hatch. Isaacman emerged first, joining a small elite group of

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A key Ukrainian city loses its water supply and gas for cooking and heating during Russian onslaught

A key Ukrainian city loses its water supply and gas for cooking and heating during Russian onslaught

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is without a drinking water supply or natural gas for cooking and heating, authorities said Thursday, as the Russian army’s attritional slog across the Donetsk region lays waste to public infrastructure and forces civilians to flee their homes. A water filtration station in Pokrovsk

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Sri Lanka’s opposition leader says the rich will pay more if he becomes president next week

Sri Lanka’s opposition leader says the rich will pay more if he becomes president next week

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition leader contesting the presidential election next week said Thursday that if he comes to power he will renegotiate with the International Monetary Fund the 2022 economic reforms package to ensure that the rich pay more taxes and the poor see their conditions improve. The reforms were introduced

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Boeing factory workers are voting whether to strike and shut down aircraft production

Boeing factory workers are voting whether to strike and shut down aircraft production

Boeing is preparing to learn Thursday whether 33,000 aircraft assembly workers, most of them in the Seattle area, are going on strike and shutting down production of the company’s best-selling planes. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers plan to vote on whether to approve a contract offer that includes 25% pay

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Spanish prime minister meets with exiled Venezuelan opposition leader González

Spanish prime minister meets with exiled Venezuelan opposition leader González

MADRID (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday, four days after fleeing to the European country in a negotiated deal with Nicolás Maduro’s government. González’s flight to exile — after weeks of seeking refuge in the embassies of the Netherlands and Spain in Caracas —

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