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WASHINGTON — A Soyuz spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station, two days after a rare last-minute launch scrub. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:36 a.m. Eastern March 23. It placed the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft into orbit about nine minutes later. Soyuz MS-25 is commanded by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Marina Vasilevskaya, a Belarusian spaceflight participant, also on board. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the station’s Prichal module at 11:09 a.m. Eastern March 25. The launch was scheduled for March 21, but the countdown…

An artist’s impression of Europa Clipper near the moon it is named afterNASA An instrument on a NASA spacecraft due to blast off to Europa later this year may be able to directly detect cellular material ejected from the icy moon of Jupiter, raising the prospects for finding life. Europa has garnered scientific interest because researchers believe it contains a vast, saltwater ocean under its thick icy shell. It is also surrounded by an orbiting blanket of ice grains and dust, believed to be remnants of material thrown up following bombardments by meteorites. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, due to launch…

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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with (L-R) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), on February 27, 2024 at the White House in Washington, DC.Roberto Schmidt | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Saturday signed Congress’ $1.2 trillion spending package, finalizing the remaining batch of bills in a long-awaited budget to keep the government funded until Oct. 1.Almost halfway into the fiscal year, the president’s signature ends a months-long saga of Congress struggling to secure a permanent budget resolution and…

Shares of Lululemon plunged on Friday after the athletic apparel retailer issued disappointing guidance and said it’s seeing soft sales in the U.S., its largest market.The retailer reported holiday earnings on Thursday evening that topped expectations, but showed that its growth in North America is stagnating.Here’s how the company did in its fourth fiscal quarter compared with what Wall Street was anticipating, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:Earnings per share: $5.29 vs. $5.00 expectedRevenue: $3.21 billion vs. $3.19 billion expectedThe company’s reported net income for the three-month period that ended Jan. 28 was $669.5…

Olivia Rodrigo has shared a video for “Obsessed,” which appears on her new expanded version of Guts, Guts (Spilled). Mitch Ryan directed the video, in which Rodrigo hosts a beauty pageant while despairing over the enviable attributes of her partner’s ex. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) and longtime collaborator Dan Nigro. Check it out below.Guts (Spilled) features four other songs that did not appear on the original LP: “Girl I’ve Always Been,” “Scared of My Guitar,” “Stranger,” and “So American.”Read more about Guts in Pitchfork’s rundown of “The Best Pop Music of 2023.” Read the…

Ozzy Osbourne has admitted that he’s been ‘dying to make more music’ with producer Andrew Watt. Watt produced Osbourne’s two most recent solo albums, 2020’s ‘Ordinary Man’ and 2022’s ‘Patient No. 9’, but while the former Black Sabbath frontman is eager to hit the ground running, he said in a recent interview that Watt was busy working with Lady Gaga. “I’ve always gotta be doing something, or it drives me crazy,” he told Rolling Stone [via Music News]. “I’ve got a haunted head.” “I’m waiting for [producer] Andrew Watt to give me a call,” he continued. “He’s been working with Lady…

If you’re in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google’s generative AI technology, used to appear only if you’ve opted into the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the US.” And that is why you could be getting Google’s experimental AI-generated section even if you…

WhatsApp has been spotted developing a feature that transcribes voice notes on Android devices. Using the speech recognition feature on your smartphone, WhatsApp will locally process voice notes that are sent and received, displaying the transcribed text in the same chat window. The feature, currently in development, could come in handy when it is not feasible to listen to a voice message. It might also improve accessibility for hearing impaired users, enabling them to use the built-in voice notes feature.Feature tracker WABetaInfo discovered a new feature in development on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.7.8 — the ability to transcribe voice…

Station 19 knows how to bring the laughs and the tears. It’s why this series continues to resonate with its vast audience, and Staton 19 Season 7 Episode 2 was no exception, as it delivered an action-packed, heartwarming, and heartrending episode all at once. At the forefront of that hour was learning that Jack Gibson would no longer be fighting fires, his CTE preventing him from continuing with a job he deems his true purpose with the people he considers his family. The devastating news led to some genuinely emotional scenes, with viewers reaching for the…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks after exiting the courtroom as he attends his Manhattan courthouse trial in a civil fraud case in New York, October 18, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersDonald Trump on Friday claimed to have nearly half a billion dollars in cash — after his lawyers said he doesn’t have enough money to post a bond for his $464 million civil fraud appeal.The apparent contradiction could be serious: Trump has just a few days left to get an appeal bond that would stop New York Attorney General Letitia James from starting to collect on the massive judgment.”Through…

After reporting on elite athletes for almost a decade, I have one main takeaway: They’re just like us. No, really. For all the physical strength and dominance they display, athletes on the collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels are still susceptible to the vulnerabilities that plague us all. They fret over their identities and legacies, the health of their platonic and romantic relationships. Some days they wake up feeling invincible; on many other days they know all too well they aren’t. In recent years, I’ve had conversations with dozens of athletes about their mental health, specifically. My new book, Mind Game:…

Whether you’re hustling around a trail or an industrial kitchen, you need the best non-slip shoes for men. Non-slip or slip resistance might not seem like a crucial feature, but it can make or break whether you slip and fall in an accident or stay standing on your own two feet. I’m sure you can imagine the repercussions of both. A great non-slip shoe has to fulfill several high-standard categories to make it worthy of wear. First and foremost, they must be non-slip or slip-resistant at the outsole and preferably meet safety standards to prove it. While most rubber-soled shoes…

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Jeopardy has logged its 9,000th episode with the Friday, March 22 installment. And every single one of them has been announced by Johnny Gilbert, who at 95 is still going strong as the Jeopardy announcer. Gilbert has been with the series since it debuted in 1984, just like the late Alex Trebek. The March 22 episode ended with a celebratory salute to its decades-long history, commemorating the thousands of games and contestants. The tribute fits in well with Jeopardy‘s upcoming Diamond Celebration commemorating the show’s 60th anniversary on September 10, 2024. Starting March 30 and through the rest of the…

The SpaceX logo is shown on a Falcon 9 rocket as it is prepared for launch to carry NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 2, 2024.Joe Skipper | ReutersThe National Labor Relations Board accused SpaceX in a new complaint of entering into unlawful severance agreements with terminated employees nationwide.The unfair labor practices complaint comes two months after SpaceX filed a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the NLRB’s oversight authority, and after the federal…

Deep-pocketed, sovereign wealth funds are among the investors clamoring to get a stake in Anthropic, the red-hot artificial intelligence startup that’s taking on OpenAI. One country that’s being left out: Saudi Arabia.As bankers line up a group of potential new Anthropic backers, the company has ruled out taking money from the Saudis, according to people familiar with the matter. Anthropic executives cited national security, one of the sources told CNBC. The stake in Anthropic is for sale because it belongs to FTX, the failed cryptocurrency exchange started by Sam Bankman-Fried, and is being unloaded as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings.…

LONDON — Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, on Friday revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.In a video statement released Friday, she said that she had undergone major abdominal surgery in London in January, saying that it was initially thought her condition was noncancerous.”The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation found cancer had been present. My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy and I am now in the early stages of that treatment,” her statement said.”This of course came as a huge shock, and William and I have…