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Published
September 12, 2024

Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth

Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s brand new spacesuits on his chartered flight.
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September 12, 2024

Average rate on 30-year mortgage falls to 6.20%, its lowest level since February 2023

Lower mortgage rates would help boost home shoppers’ purchasing power. But many economists’ forecasts call for the average rate on a 30-year home loan to remain above 6% this year.
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September 12, 2024

Moderna slashes research budget as vaccine sales disappoint

The company is slowing its pace of studying new treatments in part because of recent commercial challenges.
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September 12, 2024

Ukraine says Russia has begun counteroffensive in Kursk border region

Ukraine launched its daring incursion into Kursk in August, partly in the hopes Russia would divert troops there from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine where a push by the Russian army is threatening to overrun a belt of key defensive strongholds.
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September 12, 2024

Gaza is vaccinating against polio. Is the virus a threat to the U.S.?

A campaign is ongoing to vaccinate children in Gaza after its first polio case in 25 years. The threat to the United States is only in communities with low vaccination levels.

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Published
September 11, 2024

Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori, dies at 86

Alberto Fujimori, who governed with an increasingly authoritarian hand from 1990-2000, was pardoned in 2023 from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people.
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September 11, 2024

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter win at MTV Video Music Awards, Chappell Roan gets medieval

The MTV Video Music Awards returned Wednesday night with a whole lot of Taylor Swift.
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September 11, 2024

Trump faces his own debate fallout just months after benefiting from Joe Biden’s

Just 55 days before the election, the Republican presidential candidate has emerged from a rocky contest against his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, looking to regain his footing.
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September 11, 2024

Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm

President Biden granted an emergency declaration that will help Louisiana secure federal money and logistical assistance from partners such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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September 11, 2024

Biden ‘outraged’ by U.S. activist’s death; Israel kills dozens in Gaza strikes

Witnesses say Aysenur Eygi, 26, was fatally shot in the head last week by Israeli soldiers who opened fire while she was participating in a protest of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.