Ed Dwight, a former Air Force test pilot who was passed over to become an astronaut in the 1960s, described his flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard as "life changing."
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Solar farms generate resistance from neighbors worried about changing the agricultural landscape. So a team in Iowa is working on a way to grow food and harvest solar power on the same acreage.
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The regulators approved sweeping changes to the way U.S. power lines are planned, built and funded. Will the new rules be enough to save America's overwhelmed power grid?
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Prescription drugs are in short supply in Indiana and across the nation. Caregivers and parents whose children need specific medications are worried.
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Top officials at the Illinois Department of Corrections on Friday laid out the agency’s plans to close and rebuild two state prisons that are in dire states of disrepair.
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Gov. Mike Parsons takes a closer look at the budget narrowly passed by the Missouri House on Friday evening. It includes increases in education and infrastructure funding, amid process concerns and charges of "strategic" spending in a competitive political landscape.
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Measure excludes certain tax-exempt entities after negotiations
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The contest is for students ages 8 to 18 and provides them with an opportunity to share their unique vision of agriculture in the state.
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Department of Corrections officials lay out closure, rebuild timeline to lawmakers
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Missouri State University announced Friday it's accepted an offer to join Conference USA starting in the fall 2025. That conference plays in the highest level of Division I football, the Football Bowl Subdivision. The Missouri Valley Football Conference is in the lower-tier Football Championship Subdivision.
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A Cook County Circuit Court jury this week ordered OSF HealthCare and other health providers to pay $41 million in a malpractice lawsuit.
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There's trouble in the town of Bad Göodsburg! A wishing well has stopped working! NPR's Tamara Keith talks with Jess Hannigan about her new children's book, "Spider in the Well."
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That's what one paramedic says of the targeting of ambulance crews. Criminals are after phones and wallets along with medical equipment and drugs. We ride along with a Cape Town crew in a Red Zone.
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An Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, on Sunday, as fighting raged and Israel's leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war.
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The jawbone of a nearly 50-foot sperm whale that washed ashore in New Zealand's southernmost region has been removed. While the act is illegal, it's also considered disrespectful to the Māori people.
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President Joe Biden's national security adviser met early Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries.
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Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk became the world's first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in 24 years by beating British fighter Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh.
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Disneyland employees in California, including those who perform as characters from Mickey Mouse to Moana, have voted to unionize. The 1,700 workers will be represented by Actors' Equity Association.