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This illustration provided by NASA depicts the RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) solar observation satellite. The defunct science satellite will plummet through the atmosphere Wednesday night, April 19, 2023, according to NASA and the Defense Department. Experts tracking the spacecraft say chances are low it will pose any danger. (NASA via AP)

Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun has plunged back to Earth. The space agency said Thursday the spacecraft reentered the atmosphere over the Sahara Desert. Officials say they've received no … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 4/20/23

FILE - F. Murray Abraham appears at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

F. Murray Abraham apologizes after 'Mythic Quest' exit

F. Murray Abraham is apologizing after allegations of sexual misconduct led to his departure from the Apple TV+ show “Mythic Quest.” He says it was never his intention to offend anyone and said … more

By The Associated Press | 4/20/23

FILE - Tombstones mark graves at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research suggests. Stroke death rates increased for both Black and White adults in 2020 and 2021, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 20, 2023. But the difference between the two groups grew about 22%, compared to the five years before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Racial gap in US stroke deaths widened during pandemic

The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's according to research published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and … more

By MIKE STOBBE | 4/20/23

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2021, photo provided by Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Glossip. An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday, April 20, 2023, upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip, paving the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18, despite the state attorney general’s concerns about some testimony and evidence. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Oklahoma court upholds Richard Glossip’s murder conviction

An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip. The decision Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals clears the way for Glossip to be … more

By SEAN MURPHY and KEN MILLER | 4/20/23

Kinsley White, 6, shows reporters a wound left on her face, Thursday, April 20, 2023 in Gastonia, N.C. A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl's family — another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial reasons. (Kara Fohner/The Gaston Gazette via AP)

Neighbor: Girl, 6, and parents shot, wounded over stray ball

Authorities are searching for a man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old North Carolina girl and her parents. A neighbor says the Tuesday night shooting near Gastonia happened after children … more

4/20/23

Dante Simonetti, associate professor and vice chair for undergraduate education at the UCLA Samueli Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, explains a technology dubbed SeaChange during a news conference, Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in San Pedro, Calif. Engineering faculty the university say they have developed a technique that can remove carbon dioxide from seawater and produce hydrogen, a green energy fuel, in the process. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

California researchers attempt ocean climate solution

Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed a technique that can remove carbon dioxide from seawater and produce green hydrogen, a clean fuel, in the … more

By JULIE WATSON | 4/20/23

Residential properties are shown on a hill in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. On Thursday, the National Association of Realtors reports on sales of existing homes in March. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

US home sales fell in March in tepid homebuying season start

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in March and prices edged lower for the second month in a row, a tepid start to the spring homebuying season as buyers contend with sharply higher … more

By ALEX VEIGA | 4/20/23

A Frontex Standing Corps member, left, and a Macedonian Border Police officer stand next to each other during the official launch of the Frontex Joint Operation in North Macedonia, at police barracks in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Thursday, April 20. 2023. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

EU border agency begins deployment in North Macedonia

The European Union’s border protection agency Frontex has begun its official deployment in North Macedonia Thursday, extending its operations outside the bloc to a fifth country. More than 100 … more

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES | 4/20/23

The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost and drove to the wrong house in rural town upstate New York raged Wednesday at the man who pulled the trigger. (April 19)

Woman shot after wrong turn had hopes, dreams, father says

The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost and drove to the wrong house in rural upstate New York raged Wednesday at the man who pulled the trigger. … more

By MICHAEL HILL | 4/19/23

With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a protester holds a sign in support of mifepristone as they march past the capitol following a Planned Parenthood rally in support of abortion access outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, April. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

As courts weigh abortion pill rules, patients ask: What now?

Recent legal rulings on a key drug used in medication abortions may leave many women wondering what it means for them. Various courts have ruled on mifepristone, which is used in the most common form … more

By LAURA UNGAR | 4/19/23

In this photo provided by researchers, Cornell University graduate student Brayan Vilanova Cuevas collects a swab sample from the surface of corals in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in September 2022. A tiny single-celled organism is to blame for a massive die-off of sea urchins in the Caribbean in 2022, researchers reported Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in the journalScience Advances. (Ian Hewson/Cornell University via AP)

Mystery solved: Scientists ID Caribbean sea urchin killer

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year. Researchers reported Wednesday that a tiny parasite is to blame for the die-off. The … more

By MADDIE BURAKOFF | 4/19/23

Ari Aster, left, writer/director of "Beau Is Afraid," and star Joaquin Phoenix pose together at the premiere of the film, Monday, April 10, 2023, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Q&A: Aster, Phoenix try to discuss ‘Beau is Afraid’

In Ari Aster’s new film “Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home. It’s … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 4/19/23

Keri Russell evolves from silky spy to sweaty 'Diplomat'

Keri Russell is back on TV, and this time, she's on the other side. Five years after her acclaimed turn ended as cold-blooded Soviet spy Elizabeth Jennings on FX's “The Americans,” Russell plays … more

By JOCELYN NOVECK | 4/19/23

Law enforcement continues to investigate a mass shooting at Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville , Ala., on Sunday, April 16, 2023. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Alabama police arrest 2 teens for birthday party shooting

Alabama investigators say two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet 16 birthday party. District Attorney Mike … more

By KIM CHANDLER | 4/19/23

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a scene from "Chevalier." (Searchlight Pictures via AP)

Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ an erased figure gets a lush biopic

Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous, sought-after … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 4/19/23

FILE - An autistic boy holds the hand of his adoptive father as they prepare to leave for a family outing from their home in Springfield, Mass., on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Traditionally, autism was diagnosed only in kids with severe language and social impairments and unusual repetitious behaviors. But the definition gradually expanded, and autism is now shorthand for a group of milder, related conditions, too. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Study: Milder autism far outpacing 'profound' diagnoses

A new, first-of-its-kind study shows the rate of profound autism is rising in the U.S., though those cases are a smaller share of all autism diagnoses. Autism diagnoses in U.S. kids have become … more

By MIKE STOBBE | 4/19/23

This undated photo provided by Ben Crump Law shows Ralph Yarl, the teenager shot by a homeowner in Kansas City, Mo. (Ben Crump Law via AP)

What to know about shooting of Black teen after home mix-up

Black teen Ralph Yarl was shot twice, in the head and arm, after going to the wrong address in Kansas City, Missouri, to pick up his younger brothers. Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white man, told … more

4/19/23

Charles Stanley, influential Baptist preacher, dies at 90

Charles Stanley, a prominent televangelist who once led the Southern Baptist Convention, died Tuesday at his home in Atlanta at age 90. Stanley's In Touch Ministries announced the death, but it … more

4/18/23

New York City Police and Fire Department personnel cordon off an area in New York's Financial District, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, near the site of a partially collapsed parking garage. It wasn't immediately clear whether anyone was injured. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

'Like an earthquake': Parking garage falls in NYC, killing 1

Mayor Eric Adams says one person has been killed in the collapse of a parking garage in lower Manhattan’s Financial District. Five people have been injured. The collapse happened around 4 p.m. … more

By TED SHAFFREY | 4/18/23

FILE - Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus on Aug. 11, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Nearly six years after a large gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville erupted in violent clashes with counter protesters, a grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP, File)

Torch-carrying marchers indicted in Charlottesville rally

A grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate during a rally at the University of Virginia campus in … more

By DENISE LAVOIE | 4/18/23