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Two companies will attempt the first US moon landings since the Apollo missions a half-century ago 01/04/2024 02:04pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap. Now two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended. It’s part of a NASA-supported effort NCAA agrees to $920 million, 8-year deal with ESPN for women's March Madness, 39 other championships 01/04/2024 10:58am • The NCAA and ESPN announced on Thursday a $920 million, eight-year agreement that will give the network exclusive rights to 40 championships, including the Division I women's basketball tournament, an event growing in popularity that the association has been accused of undervaluing in the past. NCAA Germany's government waters down a cost-cutting plan that infuriated the country's farmers 01/04/2024 10:29am • BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Thursday watered down cost-saving plans that have infuriated farmers, announcing that it is giving up a proposal to scrap a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and will stagger cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture. The cuts were part of a pack Argentina arrests three men suspected of belonging to a terror cell 01/03/2024 06:05pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Authorities in Argentina are investigating three men, including a Syrian national, who were detained in Buenos Aires and surrounding areas on suspicion of being part of a terror cell, the government announced Wednesday. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich did not dis Michigan state lawmaker enters crowded U.S. House race as Democrats aim to defend open seat 01/03/2024 03:11pm • Michigan state Sen. Kristen McDonald Rivet on Wednesday became the fifth candidate to enter a competitive race for a U.S. House seat that Democrats are being forced to defend without an incumbent because of U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee’s retirement this year. Defending the seat could be vital for Democrat The 49ers have a rare quartet of 1,000-yard players. Dolphins and Lions could do the same. 01/03/2024 12:43pm • Inside the Numbers dives into NFL statistics, streaks and trends each week. For more Inside the Numbers, head here. ___ The San Francisco 49ers and their deep group of playmakers accomplished a rare feat. They soon could have company from the Miami Dolphins and Detroit Lions. Tight end George Kittle U.S. reopening 4 entry points at southern border after migrant crossings drop 01/03/2024 05:16am • ▶ Watch Video: U.S. to reopen border crossings previously closed over migrant influx U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will resume commercial and legal travel at four official crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday that were partially or fully closed recently due to rec Chicago Bulls hopeful injured guard Zach LaVine can return to the lineup on Friday 01/02/2024 06:40pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine could return to the lineup as early as Friday's game against Charlotte if there are no setbacks in his recovery from a sore right foot. LaVine has not played since Nov. 28 and is testing out his foot this week in a rehab stint with the G League†Burning Man survived a muddy quagmire. Will the experiment last 30 more years? 01/02/2024 06:25pm • RENO, Nev. (AP) — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada playa, the long-ago floor of an Largest Baseball Pitchers Contract Packages 01/02/2024 05:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball contracts for pitchers worth $200 million or more. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources and include all guaranteed income but not income from potential incentive bonuses. There is no distinction for deferred money: Player, ClubYe How to spend the winter planning and preparing for your spring garden 01/02/2024 09:04am • Gardening isn’t usually the first thing that springs to mind when the calendar page turns to January. But with the holidays behind us, there’s no better time to start planning and preparing our 2024 gardens. Of course, that will mean different things in different places. It's impossible to accou Volunteers start New Year by cleaning up Mount Vernon Trail 01/01/2024 06:45pm • On a New Year's morning when plenty of runners and cyclists took to the Mount Vernon Trail to get their first workout of the year in, a group of volunteers hit the trail with trash bags and equipment designed to fill potholes. Mall Davis, a truck driver from Prince George's County, Maryland, was More Americans think foreign policy should be a top US priority for 2024, an AP-NORC poll finds 01/01/2024 01:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2024, with a new poll showing international concerns and immigration rising in importance with the public. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults named foreign policy topics i Car Review: The MINI Cooper SE Hardtop 2 Door is an EV that infuses fun into the daily commute 01/01/2024 09:20am • MINI still builds small cars that tend to be more fun to drive, like the Cooper SE Hardtop. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Small cars might be passé in the big crossover SUV craze we live in today. Luckily, MINI still builds small cars that tend to be more fun to drive, and now the MINI Cooper 2 Door Hardtop i The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio