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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites is seen in the evening sky above Lawndale, Calif., after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024.

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  • Space

How the U.S. became highly reliant on Elon Musk for access to space

Besides its flights to the International Space Station and Starship program, SpaceX is deeply embedded in the Department of Defense. The feud between Elon Musk and President Trump could end all that.

June 07, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Geoff Brumfiel
In his latest album, <em>Lush Life</em>, Seth MacFarlane records  arrangements of songs originally written for the late Frank Sinatra.

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  • Music Interviews

Seth MacFarlane of 'Family Guy' uncovers Sinatra songs in new album

The Family Guy creator got a trove of previously unheard arrangements written for Frank Sinatra and has released a first album of some of the songs.

June 07, 2025
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Iman Maani
This combo of images released by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows the recapture of escaped inmate Grant Hardin, an ex-police chief and convicted killer, by Arkansas law enforcement officers and the U.S. Border Patrol on Friday, near Moccasin Creek in Izard County, about 1.5 miles northwest of Calico Rock prison.

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  • National

A former police chief who escaped from an Arkansas prison is captured

A former police chief and convicted killer known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" was captured by law enforcement 1.5 miles from the prison he escaped from following a nearly two-week-long manhunt.

June 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Juan Vega Paredes, a Dominican man who was arrested by immigration authorities in Puerto Rico in January, poses for a portrait in his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico on June 3, 2025.

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  • National

'You barely see people out': How immigration raids are reshaping daily life in Puerto Rico's Dominican enclave

Puerto Rico's Dominican immigrant community is on edge following a series of immigration raids, which started in January. People have stopped going to work, sending kids to school, or attending medical appointments. What was once a lively barrio is now mostly quiet in the wake of the crackdown.

June 07, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (R) and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire (L) during a joint press conference in Nairobi on June 2, 2025 following their three-day detention and alleged torture by Tanzanian authorities.

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  • Africa

Torture and treason trials: what's happening in Tanzania?

Tanzania's government is facing growing accusations of repression after prominent human rights defenders say they were beaten and sexually assaulted while in custody.

June 07, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
Erin Patterson, pictured at her home in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, in August 2023. Three people died of death cap poisoning after eating a meal she had cooked the previous month.

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  • World

4 takeaways from Erin Patterson's testimony at her toxic mushroom triple murder trial

Patterson is accused of putting death cap mushrooms in a meal she served her estranged husband's relatives in July 2023, killing three. She took the stand in Week 6 of the trial gripping Australia.

June 07, 2025
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Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor.

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  • Television

'Doctor Who' is about possibility. Ncuti Gatwa's role embodied that

Until recently, the long-running British show was too often content with iteration. Actor Ncuti Gatwa brought an unapologetic queerness to the character of the Doctor.

June 07, 2025
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  • Glen Weldon
People hold up signs during the Harvard Students for Freedom rally in support of international students at the Harvard University campus in Boston on May 27.

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  • USPS

International students in the U.S.: Who they are, where they're from

The Trump administration continues to target foreign nationals looking to attend U.S. universities. Here's a closer look at who these students are, where they come from and what they study.

June 07, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Different types of baklava are on display and being packaged at Gulluoglu, a shop in Gaziantep, Turkey. The city has many shops dedicated to the sweet pastry.

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  • World

A baklava crawl in the Turkish city that's obsessed with the pastry

Here's how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, filled with nuts and soaked in syrup or honey.

June 07, 2025
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  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Claire Harbage
Yjastros, the American Flamenco Repertory Company, performing in Albuquerque

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  • National

Spanish Flamenco thrives in New Mexico, with its own unique flavor

A lot of folks know New Mexico for green chiles, the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, and the birthplace of the bomb. But it's also a global center of flamenco—the passionate dance, song and music of the Roma people of southern Spain.

June 07, 2025
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  • John Burnett
Starting this fall, NCAA Division I schools will be able to pay players directly up to a salary cap of $20.5 million.

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  • Sports

With $2.7 billion settlement approved, college sports' big money era is officially here

The settlement in House v. NCAA brings an end to the NCAA's long-standing tradition of amateurism. Starting this fall, schools will be able to pay players directly up to a salary cap of $20.5 million.

June 06, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks during an April 4 news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., after her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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  • USPS

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges

Abrego Garcia faces criminal charges for allegedly transporting migrants without legal status around the country, according to a Justice Department indictment.

June 06, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
ICE agents used what appeared to be a smoke device to disperse the crowd near Buona Forchetta in San Diego, Calif., on May 30, 2025.

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  • National

ICE raids grow tense as protesters confront immigration agents

Bystanders and protesters have been confronting ICE agents as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement.

June 06, 2025
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  • Martin Kaste
Camp Lemonnier uses stacks and rows of "Containerized Living Units," or CLUs, which the military likens to shipping containers, to house thousands of personnel at the U.S. base in Djibouti. A group of migrants is being held in a converted shipping container, according to court filings.

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  • National

Deportees are being held in a converted shipping container in Djibouti, ICE says

Deported migrants have been stuck at a military base in Djibouti for over two weeks — and ICE officers are also there, guarding them 24 hours a day.

June 06, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Bill Chappell
The Social Security Administration office in San Francisco

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  • Law

Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records

The order, for now, overturns actions that limited DOGE's access to sensitive private information. In a separate case, the court said DOGE did not have to share internal records with a watchdog group.

June 06, 2025
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  • Anuli Ononye
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