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Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space 12/20/2025 10:14am • A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high. Severely injured in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, Michaela Benthaus became the first Combat training is a rite of passage for police recruits. It's left a trail of deaths and injuries 12/20/2025 10:06am • Heather Sterling stepped into the ring at the Texas Game Warden Training Center, ready to face an ambush by instructors acting as violent assailants. The four-on-one drill is a rite of passage for those training to be game wardens, sworn officers who enforce state conservation laws. Nationwide, thou Knife-wielding man shot dead by police in Corsica after threatening bystanders 12/20/2025 09:37am • AJACCIO, France (AP) — A man armed with a knife who threatened bystanders and shopkeepers was shot dead in Corsica on Saturday, police said, as French authorities reinforced security measures during the festive season. Police said they received a call around noon about an individual threatening a High-speed passenger train kills 7 elephants crossing railway tracks in northeast India 12/20/2025 07:57am • GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India's northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local authorities said. The train driver spotted the herd of about 100 elephants Everything you need to know about Christmas, and how it has evolved into a global holiday 12/20/2025 07:41am • Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the acts of kindness of a fourth-century Christian saint? And have you heard about the modern-day Japane Fairfax Co. police warn holiday shoppers of potential credit card skimming scam 12/20/2025 05:04am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are warning holiday shoppers to monitor a potential credit card scam as they pay at the register. Detectives from the department’s financial crimes unit, along with members of the U.S. Secret Service, found 20 credit card skimming devices during a countywide What you need to know if you plan to give animals as gifts during the holidays 12/20/2025 04:42am • During the holidays, some families may consider adding a new family member and bringing home a pet as a gift for their loved ones. But is it a good idea? Tiffany Cotton, chief operating officer for the Humane Rescue Alliance, said that when the decision is planned out, bringing home a pet duri Photos of Bill Clinton feature prominently in first batch of newly released Epstein files 12/19/2025 10:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton featured prominently in the first batch of files released Friday by the Justice Department stemming from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the White House seized the chance to shift the focus of the highly anticipated In Antarctica, photos show a remote area teeming with life amid growing risks from climate change 12/19/2025 08:58pm • ANTARCTICA (AP) — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn't mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels ensure that the Antarctic Peninsula has a constant drone of ocean. While it can be loud, the view is serene — at first glance, it is onl Trump administration wants to ensure Mexican crews operating trains in the US can speak English 12/19/2025 07:49pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A number of Mexican train crews who had just hauled trains over the border to American rail yards in Texas had trouble understanding important safety information in English during recent focused inspections the Trump administration ordered. Railroads Union Pacific and CPKC routi NTSB unclear who was at controls in jet crash that killed ex-NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and 6 others 12/19/2025 07:14pm • STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others tried to return to a North Carolina airport just after takeoff but plowed into light poles and a tree line short of the runway, killing everyone on b A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre 12/19/2025 06:59pm • SYDNEY (AP) — In the first full day of opening since a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Australia's famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, thousands of people returned to the waterfront Friday to commemorate the losses and try to heal through a sense of community. In a hastily organi DC police Chief Smith gives fiery speech at walkout ceremony 12/19/2025 06:43pm • Outgoing D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith had some strong parting words Friday as she gets ready to leave the department amid allegations of manipulating data to make it seem that crime decreased in the District. "Let's be really clear about one thing: Never would I, never will I, ever compromise m Syria welcomes the permanent repeal of sweeping US sanctions 12/19/2025 05:26pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s government and its allies on Friday welcomed the final lifting of the most draconian sanctions imposed on the country in recent decades. The U.S. Congress imposed the so-called Caesar Act sanctions on Syria’s government and financial system in 2019 to punish then Trump announces lower drug price deals with 9 pharmaceutical companies 12/19/2025 04:55pm • U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Medicaid