Six of the company’s employees took the short up-and-down flight that included a few minutes of weightlessness.
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Pentagon says allies will unite to train Ukrainians on F-16s, but warns jets aren’t ‘magic weapons’
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the allies recognize that in addition to training, Ukraine will also need to be able to sustain and maintain the aircraft and have enough munitions.
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U.S. aged quickly in last decade as baby boomers lived longer, births dropped
Maine was the oldest state in the U.S., with a median age of 45.1, as more baby boomers aged out of the workforce.
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Oath Keepers founder gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack
Stewart Rhodes’ sentence – the first for a seditious conspiracy conviction – is the longest that has been handed down so far in Capitol riot cases.
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Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said Thursday that regular Russian troops had replaced Wagner units in the suburbs but that Wagner fighters remained inside the city.
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Man arrested after car collides with gates of Downing Street, where UK prime minister lives
It was not immediately clear whether the crash was deliberate.
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Supreme Court limits federal power over wetlands, boosts property rights over clean water
By a 5-4 vote, the justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water, writing that wetlands can only be regulated if they have a ‘continuous surface connection’ to larger, regulated bodies of water.
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State lawmakers want children to fill labor shortages, even in bars and on school nights
Lawmakers proposed loosening child labor laws in at least 10 states over the past 2 years.
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Expect big crowds for the summer travel season – and big prices, too
Airfare and lodging rates are on the rise, while the national average price for a gallon of regular gas is down from this time last year, according to AAA.
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Day after Typhoon Mawar hit Guam, ‘what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks’
The strongest typhoon to hit the territory of roughly 150,000 people since 2002, Typhoon Mawar briefly made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 4 storm at Andersen Air Force Base, officials said.