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Jazz competition for high school students goes virtual
NEW YORK (AP) – The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition ...
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As it prepares to fly humans, Elon Musk’s SpaceX faces the biggest challenge in its history
The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take – ...
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Jobless rate spikes to 14.7%, highest since Great Depression
WASHINGTON – The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7 percent in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, ...
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US economy shrank at 4.8% rate last quarter as virus struck
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8 percent annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus ...
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National Spelling Bee canceled for first time since 1945
There will be no fidgeting at the National Spelling Bee microphone, no banter with pronouncer Jacques Bailly, no ...
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Schumer: Deal reached on major parts of $500B virus aid
WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday an agreement has been reached on major elements of ...
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Can faith healing work by phone? Charismatic Christians try prayer to combat the coronavirus.
Roy and Darlene Curry said they – like all Christians – have the power to miraculously heal the ...
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16.8M Americans thrown out of work as economic toll rises
NEW YORK (AP) – The coronavirus pandemic has thrown at least 16.8 million Americans onto the unemployment rolls ...
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F-35’s $17 billion diagnostic system rife with flaws, GAO says
WASHINGTON – A $17 billion Lockheed Martin system used since 2009 to monitor F-35 fighter jets for repairs, ...
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Where Trump’s border wall rises, ranchers see a scar on the range
RODEO, N.M. – When ranchers and environmentalists were fighting one another over the future of western rangeland a ...